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Loïc Pellissier Charlotte Ndiribe Anne Dubuis Jean‐Nicolas Pradervand Nicolas Salamin Antoine Guisan Sergio Rasmann 《Ecology letters》2013,16(5):600-608
Understanding drivers of biodiversity patterns is of prime importance in this era of severe environmental crisis. More diverse plant communities have been postulated to represent a larger functional trait‐space, more likely to sustain a diverse assembly of herbivore species. Here, we expand this hypothesis to integrate environmental, functional and phylogenetic variation of plant communities as factors explaining the diversity of lepidopteran assemblages along elevation gradients in the Swiss Western Alps. According to expectations, we found that the association between butterflies and their host plants is highly phylogenetically structured. Multiple regression analyses showed the combined effect of climate, functional traits and phylogenetic diversity in structuring butterfly communities. Furthermore, we provide the first evidence that plant phylogenetic beta diversity is the major driver explaining butterfly phylogenetic beta diversity. Along ecological gradients, the bottom up control of herbivore diversity is thus driven by phylogenetically structured turnover of plant traits as well as environmental variables. 相似文献
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Sheila Unger Maria?W. Górna Antony Le?Béchec Sonia Do?Vale-Pereira Maria?Francesca Bedeschi Stefan Geiberger Giedre Grigelioniene Eva Horemuzova Faustina Lalatta Ekkehart Lausch Cinzia Magnani Sheela Nampoothiri Gen Nishimura Duccio Petrella Francisca Rojas-Ringeling Akari Utsunomiya Bernhard Zabel Sylvain Pradervand Keith Harshman Belinda Campos-Xavier Luisa Bonafé Giulio Superti-Furga Brian Stevenson Andrea Superti-Furga 《American journal of human genetics》2013,92(6):990-995
Kenny-Caffey syndrome (KCS) and the similar but more severe osteocraniostenosis (OCS) are genetic conditions characterized by impaired skeletal development with small and dense bones, short stature, and primary hypoparathyroidism with hypocalcemia. We studied five individuals with KCS and five with OCS and found that all of them had heterozygous mutations in FAM111A. One mutation was identified in four unrelated individuals with KCS, and another one was identified in two unrelated individuals with OCS; all occurred de novo. Thus, OCS and KCS are allelic disorders of different severity. FAM111A codes for a 611 amino acid protein with homology to trypsin-like peptidases. Although FAM111A has been found to bind to the large T-antigen of SV40 and restrict viral replication, its native function is unknown. Molecular modeling of FAM111A shows that residues affected by KCS and OCS mutations do not map close to the active site but are clustered on a segment of the protein and are at, or close to, its outer surface, suggesting that the pathogenesis involves the interaction with as yet unidentified partner proteins rather than impaired catalysis. FAM111A appears to be crucial to a pathway that governs parathyroid hormone production, calcium homeostasis, and skeletal development and growth. 相似文献
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The use of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) to reveal environmental stress in natural populations has been investigated extensively over the past decade. In aquatic ecosystems, many investigations involve amphibiotic insects with larval development stages in freshwater. To explain the important variability in study results, we investigated the FA level of a natural Hydropsyche exocellata (Insecta: Trichoptera) population at four different stages, from first larval instar to adult. The level of FA decreased between larval stages, but remained constant between the last larval instar and the adult. The presence of a compensational growth mechanism and the elimination of asymmetric individuals by natural selection are two hypotheses that could explain this observation. 相似文献
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Small proline-rich protein 1A is a gp130 pathway- and stress-inducible cardioprotective protein 下载免费PDF全文
Pradervand S Yasukawa H Muller OG Kjekshus H Nakamura T St Amand TR Yajima T Matsumura K Duplain H Iwatate M Woodard S Pedrazzini T Ross J Firsov D Rossier BC Hoshijima M Chien KR 《The EMBO journal》2004,23(22):4517-4525
The interleukin-6 cytokines, acting via gp130 receptor pathways, play a pivotal role in the reduction of cardiac injury induced by mechanical stress or ischemia and in promoting subsequent adaptive remodeling of the heart. We have now identified the small proline-rich repeat proteins (SPRR) 1A and 2A as downstream targets of gp130 signaling that are strongly induced in cardiomyocytes responding to biomechanical/ischemic stress. Upregulation of SPRR1A and 2A was markedly reduced in the gp130 cardiomyocyte-restricted knockout mice. In cardiomyocytes, MEK1/2 inhibitors prevented SPRR1A upregulation by gp130 cytokines. Furthermore, binding of NF-IL6 (C/EBPbeta) and c-Jun to the SPRR1A promoter was observed after CT-1 stimulation. Histological analysis revealed that SPRR1A induction after mechanical stress of pressure overload was restricted to myocytes surrounding piecemeal necrotic lesions. A similar expression pattern was found in postinfarcted rat hearts. Both in vitro and in vivo ectopic overexpression of SPRR1A protected cardiomyocytes against ischemic injury. Thus, this study identifies SPRR1A as a novel stress-inducible downstream mediator of gp130 cytokines in cardiomyocytes and documents its cardioprotective effect against ischemic stress. 相似文献
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Evolutionary dynamics of the DM domain gene family in metazoans 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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Volff JN Körting C Froschauer A Zhou Q Wilde B Schultheis C Selz Y Sweeney K Duschl J Wichert K Altschmied J Schartl M 《Genomics》2003,82(4):470-479
The Xmrk oncogene involved in melanoma formation in the fish Xiphophorus was formed relatively recently by duplication of the epidermal growth factor co-orthologue egfrb. In the platyfish X. maculatus, Xmrk is located close to the major sex-determining locus in a subtelomeric region of the X and Y sex chromosomes that frequently undergoes duplications and other rearrangements. This region accumulates repetitive sequences: more than 80% of the 33-kb region 3' of Xmrk is constituted by retrotransposable elements. The high degree of nucleotide identity between X- and Y-linked sequences and the rarity of gonosome-specific rearrangements indicated that the instability observed was not a manifestation of gonosome-specific degeneration. Seven other duplicated genes were found, all corresponding, in contrast to Xmrk, to pseudogenes (nonfunctionalization). Functional persistence of Xmrk in a highly unstable region in divergent Xiphophorus species suggests a beneficial function under certain conditions for this dispensable and potentially injurious gene. 相似文献