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Genetic estimates of effective population size often generate surprising results, including dramatically low ratios of effective population size to census size. This is particularly true for many marine species, and this effect has been associated with hypotheses of "sweepstakes" reproduction and selective hitchhiking. 相似文献2.
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Sensing bitter tastes is crucial for many animals because it can prevent them from ingesting harmful foods. This process is mainly mediated by the bitter taste receptors (T2R), which are largely expressed in the taste buds. Previous studies have identified some T2R gene repertoires, and marked variation in repertoire size has been noted among species. However, the mechanisms underlying the evolution of vertebrate T2R genes remain poorly understood. 相似文献4.
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An important element in homology modeling is the use of rotamers to parameterize the sidechain conformation. Despite the many libraries of sidechain rotamers that have been developed, a number of rotamers have been overlooked, due to the fact that they involve hydrogen atoms. 相似文献5.
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Contrary to other areas of sequence analysis, a measure of statistical significance of a putative gene has not been devised to help in discriminating real genes from the masses of random Open Reading Frames (ORFs) in prokaryotic genomes. Therefore, many genomes have too many short ORFs annotated as genes. 相似文献7.
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Identifying pockets on protein surfaces is of great importance for many structure-based drug design applications and protein-ligand docking algorithms. Over the last ten years, many geometric methods for the prediction of ligand-binding sites have been developed. 相似文献8.
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Many common disorders have multiple genetic components which convey increased susceptibility. SNPs have been used to identify genetic components which are associated with a disease. Unfortunately, many studies using these methods suffer from low reproducibility due to lack of power. 相似文献9.
Ilari Scheinin José A Ferreira Sakari Knuutila Gerrit A Meijer Mark A van de Wiel Bauke Ylstra 《BMC bioinformatics》2010,11(1):331
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Determining a suitable sample size is an important step in the planning of microarray experiments. Increasing the number of arrays gives more statistical power, but adds to the total cost of the experiment. Several approaches for sample size determination have been developed for expression array studies, but so far none has been proposed for array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH). 相似文献10.
Zahra Razaghi Moghadam Kashani Hayedeh Ahrabian Elahe Elahi Abbas Nowzari-Dalini Elnaz Saberi Ansari Sahar Asadi Shahin Mohammadi Falk Schreiber Ali Masoudi-Nejad 《BMC bioinformatics》2009,10(1):318
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Complex networks are studied across many fields of science and are particularly important to understand biological processes. Motifs in networks are small connected sub-graphs that occur significantly in higher frequencies than in random networks. They have recently gathered much attention as a useful concept to uncover structural design principles of complex networks. Existing algorithms for finding network motifs are extremely costly in CPU time and memory consumption and have practically restrictions on the size of motifs. 相似文献11.
Nelly A Gidaszewski Michel Baylac Christian Peter Klingenberg 《BMC evolutionary biology》2009,9(1):110-11
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Sexual dimorphism of body size has been the subject of numerous studies, but few have examined sexual shape dimorphism (SShD) and its evolution. Allometry, the shape change associated with size variation, has been suggested to be a main component of SShD. Yet little is known about the relative importance of the allometric and non-allometric components for the evolution of SShD. 相似文献12.
Predictive network modeling of the high-resolution dynamic plant transcriptome in response to nitrate 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Nitrate, acting as both a nitrogen source and a signaling molecule, controls many aspects of plant development. However, gene networks involved in plant adaptation to fluctuating nitrate environments have not yet been identified. 相似文献13.
Tuomas Mattila Tuomas Helin Riina Antikainen 《The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment》2012,17(3):277-286
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Inclusion of land use-related environmental aspects into LCA methodology has been under active development in recent years. Although many indicators have been developed and proposed for different aspects of land use (climate change, biodiversity, resource depletion and soil quality), many of indicators have, as yet, not been tested and compared in LCA applications. The aim of this study is to test the different LCIA indicators in practice in a case study of beer production. 相似文献14.
Nuno A Fonseca Cristina P Vieira Peter WH Holland Jorge Vieira 《BMC evolutionary biology》2008,8(1):200
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Although homeobox genes have been the subject of many studies, little is known about the main amino acid changes that occurred early in the evolution of genes belonging to different classes. 相似文献15.
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Sex determination networks evolve rapidly and have been studied intensely across many species, particularly in insects, thus presenting good models to study the evolutionary plasticity of gene networks. 相似文献16.
Neil D Tsutsui Andrew V Suarez Joseph C Spagna J Spencer Johnston 《BMC evolutionary biology》2008,8(1):64
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Despite the economic and ecological importance of ants, genomic tools for this family (Formicidae) remain woefully scarce. Knowledge of genome size, for example, is a useful and necessary prerequisite for the development of many genomic resources, yet it has been reported for only one ant species (Solenopsis invicta), and the two published estimates for this species differ by 146.7 Mb (0.15 pg). 相似文献17.
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Molecular maps have been developed for many species, and are of particular importance for varietal development and comparative genomics. However, despite the existence of multiple sets of linkage maps, databases of these data are lacking for many species, including peanut. 相似文献18.
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Tetracycline-regulated systems have been used to control the expression of heterologous genes in such diverse organisms as yeast, plants, flies and mice. Adaptation of this prokaryotic regulatory system avoids many of the problems inherent in other inducible systems. There have, however, been many reports of difficulties in establishing functioning stable cell lines due to the cytotoxic effects of expressing high levels of the tetracycline transactivator, tTA, from a strong viral promoter. 相似文献19.
Guilin Yang Boping Zhou Jufang Wang Xiangyun He Xingmin Sun Weijia Nie Saul Tzipori Hanping Feng 《BMC microbiology》2008,8(1):192
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Major Clostridium difficile virulence factors are the exotoxins TcdA and TcdB. Due to the large size and poor stability of the proteins, the active recombinant TcdA and TcdB have been difficult to produce. 相似文献20.
Gaetano Donofrio Antonio Capocefalo Valentina Franceschi Giorgio Morini Maurizio Del Bue Virna Conti Sandro Cavirani Stefano Grolli 《BMC cell biology》2010,11(1):73