Entries from 2011-10-01 to 1 month

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Leppälä J & Savolainen O 2011 Nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions reduce male fertility in hybrids of Arabidopsis lyrata subspecies. Evolution 65:2959-2972. in the present cross, the major fertility restorer was found on AL2, near a marker in…

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Galtier N 2011 The intriguing evolutionary dynamics of plant mitochondrial DNA. BMC Biol 9:61. the nuclear-encoded MSH1 gene, which is the product of fusion between a homologue of the bacterial DNA-repair gene MutS and an endonuclease gene…

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Davila JI, Arrieta-Montiel MP, Wamboldt Y, Cao J, Hagmann J, Shedge V, Xu Y-Z, Weigel D & Mackenzie SA 2011 Double-strand break repair processes drive evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Arabidopsis. BMC Biol 9:64. extensive mitochond…

Msh1

Xu Y-Z, Arrieta-Montiel MP, Virdi KS, de Paula WBM, Widhalm JR, Basset GJ, Davila JI, Elthon TE, Elowsky CG, Sato SJ, Clemente TE & Mackenzie SA 2011 MutS HOMOLOG1 is a nucleoid protein that alters mitochondrial and plastid properties and …

Msh1

Maréchal A & Brisson N 2010 Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability. New Phytol 186:299-317. there are apparently no plant MutL or MutH homologues predicted to localize to organelles this protein represents a …

compensatory evolution

Casci T 2010 Concealed connections. Nat Rev Genet 11:818. all compensatory mutations were located at physically distant sites from F37L suggesting that the search for compensatory mutations can also highlight new structure–function relatio…

compensatory evolution

Lunzer M, Golding GB & Dean AM 2011 Pervasive cryptic epistasis in molecular evolution. PLoS Genet 6:e1001162. Zuckerkandl [15] first proposed that amino acid replacements at one site in a protein might influence the acceptability of amino…

recombination

Takuno S, Kado T, Sugino RP, Nakhleh L & Innan H 2012 Population genomics in bacteria: a case study of Staphylococcus aureus. Mol Biol Evol 29:797-809. for all three cases, the observed distributions significantly differ from the Poisson d…