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Yujing Li, Frances S. Dunn, Duncan J. E. Murdock, Jin Guo, Imran A. Rahman, Peiyun Cong
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Nathan L. Haan, M. Deane Bowers, Jonathan D. Bakker
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(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Weishu Zhao, Bozitao Zhong, Lirong Zheng, Pan Tan, Yinzhao Wang, Hao Leng, Nicolas de Souza, Zhuo Liu, Liang Hong, Xiang Xiao
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Shawn McEachin, Jonathan P. Drury, Christopher N. Anderson, Gregory F. Grether
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(2022)
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Mariana P. Braga
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CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xi-guang Zhang, Brian R. Pratt
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Lucas C. Wheeler, Michael J. Harms
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kaiyue He, Jianni Liu, Jian Han, Qiang Ou, Ailin Chen, Zhifei Zhang, Dongjing Fu, Hong Hua, Xingliang Zhang, Degan Shu
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Roberto Del Amparo, Miguel Arenas
Summary: Selecting the best-fitting substitution model is recommended for accurately reconstructing ancestral sequences.
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Sebastian Ploch, Julia Kruse, Young-Joon Choi, Hjalmar Thiel, Marco Thines
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(2022)
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Mariana Neves Moura, Danon Clemes Cardoso, Maykon Passos Cristiano
Summary: The study estimated genome sizes of 99 ant species, with the mean GS of Formicidae being 0.38 pg and an AT/GC ratio of 62.40/37.60. Phylogenetic reconstruction indicated significant differences in GS between subfamilies sampled. The evolution of GS in Formicidae was suggested to occur through loss and accumulation of non-coding regions, mainly transposable elements, and occasionally by whole genome duplication.
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Michal K. Tomczyk, Milosz Kadzinski
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Adrian M. Altenhoff, Clement-Marie Train, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Ishita Mediratta, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, David Moi, Yannis Nevers, Hale-Seda Radoykova, Victor Rossier, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Natasha M. Glover, Christophe Dessimoz
Summary: OMA is a resource that elucidates evolutionary relationships among 2326 genes, providing functions such as pairwise and groupwise orthologs and functional annotations. The updated OMA database has been reorganized into gene-, group-, and genome-centric pages, with new features and improvements added.
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Christian M. Ibanez, Mariana Diaz-Santana-Iturrios, David A. Lopez-Cordova, Sergio A. Carrasco, M. Cecilia Pardo-Gandarillas, Francisco Rocha, Erica A. G. Vidal
Summary: The study found that the reproductive strategy of cephalopods may be related to their habitat and environment, but no direct correlation was found between habitat and ovulation type. Species in stable environments tend to have synchronous ovulation type, while asynchronous ovulation type is more commonly found in species living in unstable environments, which also contributes to the change of ovulation type in some species throughout evolution.
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qingyi Tian, Fangchen Zhao, Han Zeng, Maoyan Zhu, Baoyu Jiang
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(2020)
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(2020)
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Biodiversity Conservation
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Markus Osaland Fjelde, Einar Timdal, Reidar Haugan, Mika Bendiksby
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Bo-Yang Shi, Da Pan, Kang-Qin Zhang, Tian-Yu Gu, Darren C. J. Yeo, Peter K. L. Ng, Neil Cumberlidge, Hong-Ying Sun
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Attila Nemeth, Edvard Mizsei, Levente Laczko, David Czaban, Zsolt Hegyeli, Szabolcs Lengyel, Gabor Csorba, Gabor Sramko
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Ying Qi, Zhaoyan Zhong, Xu Liu, Xing He, Yadong Zhou, Lili Zhang, Chong Chen, Katrin Linse, Jian-Wen Qiu, Jin Sun
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Yu-Jie Shi, Jin -Liang Huang, Jia-Xuan Mi, Jing Li, Fan-Yu Meng, Yu Zhong, Fang He, Fei -Fei Tian, Fan Zhang, Liang-Hua Chen, Han-Bo Yang, Hong-Lin Hu, Xue-Qin Wan
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Anna Cho, Denis Tikhonenkov, Gordon Lax, Kristina I. Prokina, Patrick J. Keeling
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Tian-Tian Xue, Steven B. Janssens, Bin-Bin Liu, Sheng-Xiang Yu
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
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Alexandra A. Grossi, Chunpo Tian, Mengjiao Ren, Fasheng Zou, Daniel R. Gustafsson
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MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION
(2024)