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The synucleins.
(2002)
SUMMARY: Synucleins are small, soluble proteins expressed primarily in neural tissue and in certain tumors. The family includes three known proteins: alpha-synuclein, beta-synuclein, and gamma-synuclein. All synucleins ...
The impact of the rate prior on Bayesian estimation of divergence times with multiple Loci.
(2014-07)
Bayesian methods provide a powerful way to estimate species divergence times by combining information from molecular sequences with information from the fossil record. With the explosive increase of genomic data, divergence ...
Estimating the distribution of selection coefficients from phylogenetic data using sitewise mutation-selection models.
(2012-03)
Estimation of the distribution of selection coefficients of mutations is a long-standing issue in molecular evolution. In addition to population-based methods, the distribution can be estimated from DNA sequence data by ...
Molecular evolutionary characterization of a V1R subfamily unique to strepsirrhine primates.
(2014-01)
Vomeronasal receptor genes have frequently been invoked as integral to the establishment and maintenance of species boundaries among mammals due to the elaborate one-to-one correspondence between semiochemical signals and ...
Using Phylogenomic Data to Explore the Effects of Relaxed Clocks and Calibration Strategies on Divergence Time Estimation: Primates as a Test Case.
(2018-07-01)
Primates have long been a test case for the development of phylogenetic methods for divergence time estimation. Despite a large number of studies, however, the timing of origination of crown Primates relative to the ...
Massive losses of taste receptor genes in toothed and baleen whales.
(2014-05-06)
Taste receptor genes are functionally important in animals, with a surprising exception in the bottlenose dolphin, which shows extensive losses of sweet, umami, and bitter taste receptor genes. To examine the generality ...
Bayesian Molecular Clock Dating Using Genome-Scale Datasets.
(2019)
Bayesian methods for molecular clock dating of species divergences have been greatly developed during the past decade. Advantages of the methods include the use of relaxed-clock models to describe evolutionary rate variation ...
Evidence for the fixation of gene duplications by positive selection in Drosophila.
(2016-06)
Gene duplications play a key role in the emergence of novel traits and in adaptation. But despite their centrality to evolutionary processes, it is still largely unknown how new gene duplicates are initially fixed within ...
Survey of Global Genetic Diversity Within the Drosophila Immune System
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-01-01)