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Inversions and parallel evolution [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022
Abstract Local adaptation leads to differences between populations within a species. In many systems, similar environmental contrasts occur repeatedly, sometimes driving parallel phenotypic evolution. Understanding the genomic basis of local adaptation and parallel evolution is a major goal of evolutionary genomics.
Anja M Westram, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson   +2 more
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Parallel evolution of gravity sensing. [PDF]

Front Cell Dev Biol
Omnipresent gravity affects all living organisms; it was a vital factor in the past and the current bottleneck for future space exploration. However, little is known about the evolution of gravity sensing and the comparative biology of gravity reception. Here, by tracing the parallel evolution of gravity sensing, we encounter situations when assemblies
Romanova DY, Moroz LL.
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Parallel evolution of methyltransferases leads to vobasine biosynthesis in Tabernaemontana elegans and Catharanthus roseus [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science
Monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIA) are one of the largest and most complex alkaloid class in nature, boasting many clinically significant drugs such as anticancer vinblastine and antiarrhythmic ajmaline.
Maisha Farzana, Matthew Bailey Richardson, Daniel André Ramey Deschênes, Zhan Mai, Destiny Ichechi Njoku, Ghislain Deslongchamps, Yang Qu   +6 more
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Pronounced expression of extracellular matrix proteoglycans regulated by Wnt pathway underlies the parallel evolution of lip hypertrophy in East African cichlids [PDF]

eLife
Cichlid fishes inhabiting the East African Great Lakes, Victoria, Malawi, and Tanganyika, are textbook examples of parallel evolution, as they have acquired similar traits independently in each of the three lakes during the process of adaptive radiation.
Nagatoshi Machii, Ryo Hatashima, Tatsuya Niwa, Hideki Taguchi, Ismael A Kimirei, Hillary DJ Mrosso, Mitsuto Aibara, Tatsuki Nagasawa, Masato Nikaido   +8 more
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Parallel evolution, atavism, and extensive introgression explain the radiation of Epimedium sect. Diphyllon (Berberidaceae) in southern East Asia [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
East Asia is the richest region of plant biodiversity in the northern temperate zone, and its radiation provides key insights for understanding rapid speciation, including evolutionary patterns and processes. However, it is challenging to investigate the
Cheng Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Ran Meng, Ying Meng, Bao-Lin Guo, Quan-Ru Liu, Ze-Long Nie   +6 more
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(Non)Parallel Evolution

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 2018
Parallel evolution across replicate populations has provided evolutionary biologists with iconic examples of adaptation. When multiple populations colonize seemingly similar habitats, they may evolve similar genes, traits, or functions. Yet, replicated evolution in nature or in the laboratory often yields inconsistent outcomes: Some replicate ...
Daniel I Bolnick, Rowan D H Barrett, Krista B Oke   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Evolution of postcranial skeleton in worm lizards inferred from its status in the Cretaceous stem-amphisbaenian Slavoia darevskii [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
Amphisbaenians are one of the most derived fossorial groups among Squamata. Studies of their evolution were hampered by their specialized limbless morphology and unrecognized early fossil record.
Mateusz Tałanda
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Parallel evolution of trehalose production machinery in anhydrobiotic animals via recurrent gene loss and horizontal transfer

Open Biology, 2021
Trehalose is a versatile non-reducing sugar. In some animal groups possessing its intrinsic production machinery, it is used as a potent protectant against environmental stresses, as well as blood sugar.
Yuichiro Hara, Reira Shibahara, Koyuki Kondo, Wataru Abe, Takekazu Kunieda   +4 more
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The effects of host ecology and phylogeny on gut microbiota (non)parallelism across birds and mammals

mSphere, 2023
The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in the biological function of their hosts since bacteria provide nutrient processing, protection against pathogens, and modulation of the immune system.
Andreas Härer, Diana J. Rennison
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The genetics of adaptation in freshwater Eurasian shad (Alosa)

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Studying the genetics of phenotypic convergence can yield important insights into adaptive evolution. Here, we conducted a comparative genomic study of four lineages (species and subspecies) of anadromous shad (Alosa) that have independently evolved life
Stephen J. Sabatino, Paulo Pereira, Miguel Carneiro, Jolita Dilytė, John Patrick Archer, Antonio Munoz, Francesco Nonnis‐Marzano, Antonio Murias   +7 more
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