The Evolution of Innate Immune Genes: Purifying and Balancing Selection on β-Defensins in Waterfowl

Evolution of the avian β-defensin and cathelicidin genes

(2015) Yuanyuan Cheng et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Avian Hybrids Project: gathering the scientific literature on avian hybridization

(2015) Jente Ottenburghs et al.   IBIS

Contrasting patterns of selection and drift between two categories of immune genes in prairie-chickens

(2015) Zachary W. Bateson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

popart: full-feature software for haplotype network construction

(2015) Jessica W. Leigh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Global Footprints of Purifying Selection on Toll-Like Receptor Genes Primarily Associated with Response to Bacterial Infections in Humans

(2014) Souvik Mukherjee et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Allelic variation at innate immune genes (avian β-defensins), within a natural population of great tits

(2014) Olof Hellgren   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Balancing Selection Is the Main Force Shaping the Evolution of Innate Immunity Genes

(2014) A. Ferrer-Admetlla et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

DEFB1 polymorphisms are involved in susceptibility to human papillomavirus infection in Brazilian gynaecological patients

(2014) Ludovica Segat et al.   MEMORIAS DO INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ

Episodic Positive Selection in the Evolution of Avian Toll-Like Receptor Innate Immunity Genes

(2014) Catherine E. Grueber et al.   PLoS One

The first report of a Pelecaniformes defensin cluster: Characterization of β-defensin genes in the crested ibis based on BAC libraries

(2014) Hong Lan et al.   Scientific Reports

Peptide antimicrobials: cell wall as a bacterial target

(2013) Nannette Y. Yount et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Defensins: Natural component of human innate immunity

(2013) Justyna Jarczak et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

PAMLX: A Graphical User Interface for PAML

(2013) B. Xu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

(2013) B. Murrell et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetics of a recent radiation in the mallards and allies (Aves: Anas): Inferences from a genomic transect and the multispecies coalescent

(2013) Philip Lavretsky et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Immune modulation by multifaceted cationic host defense (antimicrobial) peptides

(2013) Ashley L Hilchie et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

The duck genome and transcriptome provide insight into an avian influenza virus reservoir species

(2013) Yinhua Huang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Widespread horizontal genomic exchange does not erode species barriers among sympatric ducks

(2012) Robert HS Kraus et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolution and connectivity in the world-wide migration system of the mallard: Inferences from mitochondrial DNA

(2012) Robert HS Kraus et al.   BMC GENETICS

The Multifaceted Activities of Mammalian Defensins

(2012) Eusondia Arnett et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL DESIGN

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Molecular evolution of vertebrate Toll-like receptors: Evolutionary rate difference between their leucine-rich repeats and their TIR domains

(2012) Tomoko Mikami et al.   GENE

Cationic Host Defence Peptides: Multifaceted Role in Immune Modulation and Inflammation

(2012) Ka-Yee Choi et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Global lack of flyway structure in a cosmopolitan bird revealed by a genome wide survey of single nucleotide polymorphisms

(2012) Robert H. S. Kraus et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Cationic antimicrobial peptides disrupt theStreptococcus pyogenesExPortal

(2012) Luis Alberto Vega et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Overview on the recent study of antimicrobial peptides: Origins, functions, relative mechanisms and application

(2012) Yanmei Li et al.   PEPTIDES

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Will new generations of modified antimicrobial peptides improve their potential as pharmaceuticals?

(2011) Nicole K. Brogden et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS

Signatures of selection acting on the innate immunity gene Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) during the evolutionary history of rodents

(2011) B. TSCHIRREN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Molecular Evolution of the Toll-Like Receptor Multigene Family in Birds

(2011) M. Alcaide et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Three novel Anas platyrhynchos avian β-defensins, upregulated by duck hepatitis virus, with antibacterial and antiviral activities

(2011) Deying Ma et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

The expanding scope of antimicrobial peptide structures and their modes of action

(2011) Leonard T. Nguyen et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

In vitro tests of natural allelic variation of innate immune genes (avian β-defensins) reveal functional differences in microbial inhibition

(2010) O. HELLGREN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

(2010) Steve Paterson et al.   NATURE

Evidence for convergent evolution in the antimicrobial peptide system in anuran amphibians

(2010) Enrico König et al.   PEPTIDES

Antimicrobial peptides: The ancient arm of the human immune system

(2010) Jochen Wiesner et al.   Virulence

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

(2009) J. K. Pickrell et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Phylogenetic relationships based on two mitochondrial genes and hybridization patterns in Anatidae

(2009) J. Gonzalez et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Targets of Balancing Selection in the Human Genome

(2009) A. M. Andres et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Discovery of Anas platyrhynchos avian β-defensin 2 (Apl_AvBD2) with antibacterial and chemotactic functions

(2009) Soja Saghar Soman et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

From evolutionary genetics to human immunology: how selection shapes host defence genes

(2009) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Antimicrobial peptides: linking partition, activity and high membrane-bound concentrations

(2009) Manuel N. Melo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Signatures of natural selection are not uniform across genes of innate immune system, but purifying selection is the dominant signature

(2009) S. Mukherjee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variation matters: TLR structure and species-specific pathogen recognition

(2009) Dirk Werling et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

AMPed up immunity: how antimicrobial peptides have multiple roles in immune defense

(2009) Yuping Lai et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Toll-Like Receptors and Their Different Contributions to Host Defense

(2009) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   PLoS Genetics

Directional and balancing selection in human beta-defensins

(2008) Edward J Hollox et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Natural selection on the Drosophila antimicrobial immune system

(2008) Brian P Lazzaro   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ecology of Avian Influenza Virus in Birds

(2008) Douglas Causey et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Selection on an Antimicrobial Peptide Defensin in Ants

(2008) Lumi Viljakainen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Avian defensins

(2008) Albert van Dijk et al.   VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY

Discovery of six families of fungal defensin-like peptides provides insights into origin and evolution of the CSαβ defensins

(2007) Shunyi Zhu   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY