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2008
Li, R., Wang, J., Wong, G.K.S., Zheng, H., Xu, S., Clark, T., Zheng, X., Vang, S.
Background Gene conversion causes a non-reciprocal transfer of genetic information between similar sequences. Gene conversion can both homogenize genes and recruit point mutations thereby shaping the evolution of multigene families. In the rice genome, the large number of duplicated genes...
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Gene expression and sensory structures in sponges: Explorations of sensory-neural origins in a non-bilaterian context
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The nervous system is present in all but two animal phyla – one of them being Porifera, sponges. Sponges have no neurons and yet have organized behavior and finely tuned sensation. Furthermore, sponges have genes involved in the nervous system of other animals (informally called ‘neural’ genes)....
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Genetic diversity and selection in North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus): A Hamiltonian perspective into the processes and mechanisms of evolution
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The theory of natural selection has advanced our understanding in every aspect of biological sciences, yet despite this seeming ubiquity, there remain some components that are not fully resolved. Natural selection predicts the “selfish” advancement of genes that are optimally suited for their...
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2006
Wang, W., Li, J., Liu, D., Lu, Z., Zheng, H., Wong, G., Cai, Z., Fan, C., Zhang, J., Vang, S., Long, M., Zhang, G., Wang, J., Shi, J.
Retroposition is widely found to play essential roles in origination of new mammalian and other animal genes. However, the scarcity of retrogenes in plants has led to the assumption that plant genomes rarely evolve new gene duplicates by retroposition, despite abundant retrotransposons in plants...
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2009
Lewis, A., Wishart, D.S., Guo, A.C., Gautam, B., Tzur, D., Sobsey, C.A., Shaykhutdinov, R., Fradette, R., De Souza, A., Cruz, J.A., Xiong, Y., Bouatra, S., Mandal, R., Psychogios, N., Sinelnikov, I., Vogel, H.J., Fang, L., Peng, J., Xia, J., Li, L., Knox, C., Shrivastava, S., Clements, M., Lim, E., Eisner, R., Cheng, D., Dawe, M., Zuniga, A., Young, N., Jia, L., Grenier, R., Hau, D.D., Huang, P., Nazyrova, A., Liu, P., Forsythe, I., Dong, E., Clive, D.
The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB, http:// www.hmdb.ca (http://www.hmdb.ca)) is a richly annotated resource that is designed to address the broad needs of biochemists, clinical chemists, physicians, medical geneticists, nutritionists and members of the metabolomics community. Since its first...
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2007
Wang, W., Wang, H., Wong, G.K.S., Zheng, H., Clark, T., Zhang, G., Kang, L., Wang, J., Shi, J., Wang, X.
Background Insects constitute the vast majority of known species with their importance including biodiversity, agricultural, and human health concerns. It is likely that the successful adaptation of the Insecta clade depends on specific components in its proteome that give rise to specialized...
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Identification of Hepatotropic Viruses from Plasma Using Deep Sequencing : A Next Generation Diagnostic Tool
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Jovel, Juan, Wong, Gane K., Mitchell, Troy , Rahbari, Mandana , Zhang, Yong , Mason, Andrew L., Jordan, Tracy, Law, John , Tian, Zhijian , Song, Deyong , O’keefe, Sandra , Carpenter, Eric, Patterson, Jordan , Wang, Weiwei, Meng, Bo , Wasilenko, Shawn T , Ford, Glenn
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Insights from Sponge Transcriptomes & Physiology about the Early Evolution of Nervous Systems
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The origin of neurons and neural systems is a research area that has begun to experience increased progress with the growing availability of genomic data from a range of basal metazoans and closely related outgroups. This has allowed a reevaluation of previous models of neural evolution....