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1. No simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions: only the most prolific interactors tend to evolve

By No simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions: only the most prolific interactors tend to evolve slowly I King Jordan , Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894 BMC Evolutionary Biology 2003, 3... read more

2. Low number of mitochondrial pseudogenes in the chicken (Gallus gallus) nuclear genome: implications for molecular inference of population histo

By Low number of mitochondrial pseudogenes in the chicken (Gallus gallus) nuclear genome: implications for molecular inference of population history and phylogenetics Sérgio L Pereira1 and Allan J Baker2 1Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology – Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6 Canada 2read more

3. Upstream plasticity and downstream robustness in evolution of molecular networks

By Upstream plasticity and downstream robustness in evolution of molecular networks Sergei Maslov1 , Kim Sneppen2 , Kasper Astrup Eriksen3, 1 and Koon-Kiu Yan1, 4 1Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA 2Nordita, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen ... read more

4. DNA repeat arrays in chicken and human genomes and the adaptive evolution of avian genome size

By DNA repeat arrays in chicken and human genomes and the adaptive evolution of avian genome size Austin L Hughes and Helen Piontkivska Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, USA BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:12     doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-12 The electronic version of this arti... read more

5. Good vs complementary genes for parasite resistance and the evolution of mate choice

By Good vs complementary genes for parasite resistance and the evolution of mate choice R Stephen Howard1 and Curtis M Lively2 1Department of Biology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA 2Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700, USA BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, ... read more

6. PCR primers for an aldolase-B intron in acanthopterygian fishes

By PCR primers for an aldolase-B intron in acanthopterygian fishes Joseph M Quattro1 , William J Jones1, 2 and Kenneth J Oswald3 1Department of Biological Sciences, Program in Marine Science, Baruch Institute and School of the Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC USA 2Biology Department Uni... read more