Volume 6, issue 1, December 2011
Beyond the Tree of Life
65 articles in this issue
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Accurate state estimation from uncertain data and models: an application of data assimilation to mathematical models of human brain tumors
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Eric J Kostelich
- Yang Kuang
- Mark C Preul
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 21 December 2011
- Article: 64
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Purine biosynthesis in archaea: variations on a theme
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Anne M Brown
- Samantha L Hoopes
- Catherine A Sarisky
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 14 December 2011
- Article: 63
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The existence of species rests on a metastable equilibrium between inbreeding and outbreeding. An essay on the close relationship between speciation, inbreeding and recessive mutations
Authors
- Etienne Joly
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 09 December 2011
- Article: 62
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Transcription factor binding sites are highly enriched within microRNA precursor sequences
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Jittima Piriyapongsa
- I King Jordan
- Neil R Smalheiser
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 02 December 2011
- Article: 61
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On universal common ancestry, sequence similarity, and phylogenetic structure: the sins of P-values and the virtues of Bayesian evidence
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- Douglas L Theobald
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 24 November 2011
- Article: 60
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Extensive intron gain in the ancestor of placental mammals
Authors
- Dušan Kordiš
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 23 November 2011
- Article: 59
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Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution
Authors
- Rebecca J Case
- Yan Boucher
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 10 November 2011
- Article: 58
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Not all transmembrane helices are born equal: Towards the extension of the sequence homology concept to membrane proteins
Authors
- Wing-Cheong Wong
- Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
- Frank Eisenhaber
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 25 October 2011
- Article: 57
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Probable presence of an ubiquitous cryptic mitochondrial gene on the antisense strand of the cytochrome oxidase I gene
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Eric Faure
- Luis Delaye
- Roxane-Marie Barthélémy
- Content type: Hypothesis
- Open Access
- Published: 24 October 2011
- Article: 56
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The rhizome of Reclinomonas americana, Homo sapiens, Pediculus humanus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria
Authors
- Kalliopi Georgiades
- Didier Raoult
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 20 October 2011
- Article: 55
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Phylogenetic analysis reveals wide distribution of globin X
Authors
- Jasmin Dröge
- Wojciech Makałowski
- Content type: Discovery notes
- Open Access
- Published: 17 October 2011
- Article: 54
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A network-based approach to classify the three domains of life
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Laurin AJ Mueller
- Karl G Kugler
- Matthias Dehmer
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 13 October 2011
- Article: 53
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Xenorhodopsins, an enigmatic new class of microbial rhodopsins horizontally transferred between archaea and bacteria
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Juan A Ugalde
- Sheila Podell
- Eric E Allen
- Content type: Discovery notes
- Open Access
- Published: 10 October 2011
- Article: 52
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Fish the ChIPs: a pipeline for automated genomic annotation of ChIP-Seq data
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Iros Barozzi
- Alberto Termanini
- Gioacchino Natoli
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 06 October 2011
- Article: 51
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Evolution of vacuolar proton pyrophosphatase domains and volutin granules: clues into the early evolutionary origin of the acidocalcisome
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Manfredo J Seufferheld
- Kyung Mo Kim
- Gustavo Caetano-Anollés
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 05 October 2011
- Article: 50
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Structural analysis of hubs in human NR-RTK network
Authors
- Mouna Choura
- Ahmed Rebaï
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 05 October 2011
- Article: 49
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Sequence variability of Rhizobiales orthologs and relationship with physico-chemical characteristics of proteins
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Humberto Peralta
- Gabriela Guerrero
- Jaime Mora
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 04 October 2011
- Article: 48
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Biased gene transfer and its implications for the concept of lineage
Authors
- Cheryl P Andam
- J Peter Gogarten
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 23 September 2011
- Article: 47
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A mathematical model for targeting chemicals to tissues by exploiting complex degradation
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Bruce S Gardiner
- Lihai Zhang
- Alan J Grodzinsky
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 22 September 2011
- Article: 46
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A Rooted Net of Life
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- David Williams
- Gregory P Fournier
- J Peter Gogarten
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 21 September 2011
- Article: 45
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Families of transposable elements, population structure and the origin of species
Authors
- Jerzy Jurka
- Weidong Bao
- Kenji K Kojima
- Content type: Hypothesis
- Open Access
- Published: 19 September 2011
- Article: 44
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Expression levels of microRNAs are not associated with their regulatory activities
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Zhi Liang
- Hong Zhou
- Jiarui Wu
- Content type: Discovery notes
- Open Access
- Published: 19 September 2011
- Article: 43
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Kinetics of the viral cycle influence pharmacodynamics of antiretroviral therapy
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- Ahmad R Sedaghat
- Claus O Wilke
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 12 September 2011
- Article: 42
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The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- James O McInerney
- Davide Pisani
- Mary J O'Connell
- Content type: Hypothesis
- Open Access
- Published: 23 August 2011
- Article: 41
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Shift in the isoelectric-point of milk proteins as a consequence of adaptive divergence between the milks of mammalian species
Authors
- Nora Khaldi
- Denis C Shields
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 29 July 2011
- Article: 40
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Of woods and webs: possible alternatives to the tree of life for studying genomic fluidity in E. coli
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Julie Beauregard-Racine
- Cédric Bicep
- Eric Bapteste
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 20 July 2011
- Article: 39
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Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Kira S Makarova
- L Aravind
- Eugene V Koonin
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 14 July 2011
- Article: 38
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CREST - a large and diverse superfamily of putative transmembrane hydrolases
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Jimin Pei
- Douglas P Millay
- Nick V Grishin
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 06 July 2011
- Article: 37
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Early evolution without a tree of life
Authors
- William F Martin
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Article: 36
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Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide
Authors
- Nick Lane
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Article: 35
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Telling the whole story in a 10,000-genome world
Authors
- Robert G Beiko
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Article: 34
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From the scala naturae to the symbiogenetic and dynamic tree of life
Authors
- Ulrich Kutschera
- Content type: Opinion
- Open Access
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Article: 33
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How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?
Authors
- Maureen A O'Malley
- Eugene V Koonin
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Article: 32
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Structural influence of gene networks on their inference: analysis of C3NET
Authors
- Gökmen Altay
- Frank Emmert-Streib
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 22 June 2011
- Article: 31
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A computational approach to candidate gene prioritization for X-linked mental retardation using annotation-based binary filtering and motif-based linear discriminatory analysis
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Zané Lombard
- Chungoo Park
- Michèle Ramsay
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 13 June 2011
- Article: 30
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Molecular evolution of rbcL in three gymnosperm families: identifying adaptive and coevolutionary patterns
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Lin Sen
- Mario A Fares
- Ying-Juan Su
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 03 June 2011
- Article: 29
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Interplay of recombination and selection in the genomes of Chlamydia trachomatis
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Sandeep J Joseph
- Xavier Didelot
- Timothy D Read
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 26 May 2011
- Article: 28
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ConReg-R: Extrapolative recalibration of the empirical distribution of p-values to improve false discovery rate estimates
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Juntao Li
- Puteri Paramita
- R Krishna Murthy Karuturi
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 20 May 2011
- Article: 27
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A late origin of the extant eukaryotic diversity: divergence time estimates using rare genomic changes
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Diana Chernikova
- Sam Motamedi
- Igor B Rogozin
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 19 May 2011
- Article: 26
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Causal graph-based analysis of genome-wide association data in rheumatoid arthritis
Authors (first, second and last of 7)
- Alexander V Alekseyenko
- Nikita I Lytkin
- Alexander Statnikov
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Article: 25
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Why eukaryotic cells use introns to enhance gene expression: Splicing reduces transcription-associated mutagenesis by inhibiting topoisomerase I cutting activity
Authors
- Deng-Ke Niu
- Yu-Fei Yang
- Content type: Hypothesis
- Open Access
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Article: 24
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MicroRNA expression in multiple myeloma is associated with genetic subtype, isotype and survival
Authors (first, second and last of 14)
- Jianxiang Chi
- Erica Ballabio
- Charles H Lawrie
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Article: 23
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Evolutionary plasticity determination by orthologous groups distribution
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
- Rodrigo JS Dalmolin
- Mauro AA Castro
- José CF Moreira
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 17 May 2011
- Article: 22
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Statistical methods for detecting periodic fragments in DNA sequence data
Authors
- Julien Epps
- Hua Ying
- Gavin A Huttley
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 28 April 2011
- Article: 21
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On the relationship between the load and the variance of relative fitness
Authors
- Emmanuil E Shnol
- Elena A Ermakova
- Alexey S Kondrashov
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 14 April 2011
- Article: 20
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The struggle for life of the genome's selfish architects
Authors (first, second and last of 5)
- Aurélie Hua-Van
- Arnaud Le Rouzic
- Pierre Capy
- Content type: Review
- Open Access
- Published: 17 March 2011
- Article: 19
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Functional analysis of archaeal MBF1 by complementation studies in yeast
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- Jeannette Marrero Coto
- Ann E Ehrenhofer-Murray
- Bettina Siebers
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 10 March 2011
- Article: 18
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Do clones degenerate over time? Explaining the genetic variability of asexuals through population genetic models
Authors
- Karel Janko
- Pavel Drozd
- Jan Eisner
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 03 March 2011
- Article: 17
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The origin of a derived superkingdom: how a gram-positive bacterium crossed the desert to become an archaeon
Authors
- Ruben E Valas
- Philip E Bourne
- Content type: Research
- Open Access
- Published: 28 February 2011
- Article: 16
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