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A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes

Eugene V Koonin*, Natalie D Fedorova, John D Jackson, Aviva R Jacobs, Dmitri M Krylov, Kira S Makarova, Raja Mazumder, Sergei L Mekhedov, Anastasia N Nikolskaya, B S Rao, Igor B Rogozin, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander V Sorokin, Alexander V Sverdlov, Sona Vasudevan, Yuri I Wolf, Jodie J Yin and Darren A Natale

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Energetics and genetics across the prokaryote-eukaryote divide

Nick Lane Biology Direct 2011, 6:35 (30 June 2011)

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The Potential for pathogenicity was present in the ancestor of the Ascomycete subphylum Pezizomycotina

Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez, Cindy Martens, Kristof Engelen, Yves Van de Peer, Kathleen Marchal BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:318 (21 October 2010)

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The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics

Eugene V Koonin Genome Biology 2010, 11:209 (5 May 2010)

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Comparative genomics and new phylogenies of eukaryote groups suggest a scenario in which the mitochondrial endosymbiosis triggered the origin of eukaryotes.

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Comparison of eukaryotic phylogenetic profiling approaches using species tree aware methods

Valentín Ruano-Rubio, Olivier Poch, Julie D Thompson BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:383 (24 November 2009)

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Identification of genes expressed in the hermaphrodite germ line of C. elegans using SAGE

Xin Wang, Yongjun Zhao, Kim Wong, Peter Ehlers, Yuji Kohara, Steven J Jones, Marco A Marra, Robert A Holt, Donald G Moerman, Dave Hansen BMC Genomics 2009, 10:213 (9 May 2009)

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Comparable contributions of structural-functional constraints and expression level to the rate of protein sequence evolution

Maxim Y Wolf, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin Biology Direct 2008, 3:40 (7 October 2008)

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Conserved co-expression for candidate disease gene prioritization

Martin Oti, Jeroen van Reeuwijk, Martijn A Huynen, Han G Brunner BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:208 (23 April 2008)

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Quantification of ortholog losses in insects and vertebrates

Stefan Wyder, Evgenia V Kriventseva, Reinhard Schröder, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, Evgeny M Zdobnov Genome Biology 2007, 8:R242 (16 November 2007)

Comparison of the gene repertoires of 5 vertebrates and 5 insects showed that the rate of losses correlates well with the species' rates of molecular evolution and radiation times and suggests that the Urbilateria genome contained more than 7,000 genes.

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Poly-G/poly-C tracts in the genomes of Caenorhabditis

Yang Zhao, Nigel J O'Neil, Ann M Rose BMC Genomics 2007, 8:403 (7 November 2007)

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Functional and evolutionary analysis of alternatively spliced genes is consistent with an early eukaryotic origin of alternative splicing

Manuel Irimia, Jakob Rukov, David Penny, Scott Roy BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:188 (4 October 2007)

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The complement of protein kinases of the microsporidium Encephalitozoon cuniculi in relation to those of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Diego Miranda-Saavedra, Michael JR Stark, Jeremy C Packer, Christian P Vivares, Christian Doerig, Geoffrey J Barton BMC Genomics 2007, 8:309 (4 September 2007)

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Visualizing differences in phylogenetic information content of alignments and distinction of three classes of long-branch effects

Johann Wägele, Christoph Mayer BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:147 (28 August 2007)

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Evolutionary history and functional implications of protein domains and their combinations in eukaryotes

Masumi Itoh, Jose C Nacher, Kei-ichi Kuma, Susumu Goto, Minoru Kanehisa Genome Biology 2007, 8:R121 (25 June 2007)

A rapid emergence of animal-specific domains was observed in animals, contributing to specific domain combinations and functional diversification, but no similar trends were observed in other clades of eukaryotes.

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Orthology prediction at scalable resolution by phylogenetic tree analysis

René TJM van der Heijden, Berend Snel, Vera van Noort, Martijn A Huynen BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:83 (8 March 2007)

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Diverse bacterial genomes encode an operon of two genes, one of which is an unusual class-I release factor that potentially recognizes atypical mRNA signals other than normal stop codons

Pavel V Baranov, Bente Vestergaard, Thomas Hamelryck, Raymond F Gesteland, Jens Nyborg, John F Atkins Biology Direct 2006, 1:28 (13 September 2006)

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Combinatorial RNA interference in Caenorhabditis elegans reveals that redundancy between gene duplicates can be maintained for more than 80 million years of evolution

Julia Tischler, Ben Lehner, Nansheng Chen, Andrew G Fraser Genome Biology 2006, 7:R69 (2 August 2006)

High-throughput combinatorial RNAi demonstrates that many duplicated genes in C. elegans can retain redundant functions for more than 80 million years

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Generation, annotation and analysis of ESTs from Trichoderma harzianum CECT 2413

Juan Vizcaíno, Francisco González, M Belén Suárez, José Redondo, Julian Heinrich, Jesús Delgado-Jarana, Rosa Hermosa, Santiago Gutiérrez, Enrique Monte, Antonio Llobell, Manuel Rey BMC Genomics 2006, 7:193 (27 July 2006)

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Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Gary C Hon, Chad L Myers, Ainslie Parsons, Helena Friesen, Rose Oughtred, Amy Tong, Chris Stark, Yuen Ho, David Botstein, Brenda Andrews, Charles Boone, Olga G Troyanskya, Trey Ideker, Kara Dolinski, Nizar N Batada, Mike Tyers Journal of Biology 2006, 5:11 (8 June 2006)

A new literature-based yeast database documents over 33,000 biological interactions, manually curated from the primary literature, and provides an invaluable resource to benchmark high-throughput methods in the study of complex networks.

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The gain and loss of genes during 600 million years of vertebrate evolution

Tine Blomme, Klaas Vandepoele, Stefanie De Bodt, Cedric Simillion, Steven Maere, Yves Van de Peer Genome Biology 2006, 7:R43 (24 May 2006)

Phylogenetic analysis of gene gain and loss during vertebrate evolution provides evidence for the importance of early gene or genome duplication events in evolution of complex vertebrates.

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Identifying repeat domains in large genomes

Degui Zhi, Benjamin J Raphael, Alkes L Price, Haixu Tang, Pavel A Pevzner Genome Biology 2006, 7:R7 (31 January 2006)

A graph-based method for the analysis of repeat families in a repeat library is presented that helps elucidating the evolutionary history of repeats.

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A global definition of expression context is conserved between orthologs, but does not correlate with sequence conservation

Bas E Dutilh, Martijn A Huynen, Berend Snel BMC Genomics 2006, 7:10 (19 January 2006)

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Eleven ancestral gene families lost in mammals and vertebrates while otherwise universally conserved in animals

Etienne GJ Danchin, Philippe Gouret, Pierre Pontarotti BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:5 (18 January 2006)

The absence of certain gene families that are conserved throughout other eukaryotes suggests that the human genome, which is generally considered to have evolved to high levels of complexity, has also undergone simplification and specific gene loss.

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Human Lsg1 defines a family of essential GTPases that correlates with the evolution of compartmentalization

Emmanuel G Reynaud, Miguel A Andrade, Fabien Bonneau, Thi Ly, Michael Knop, Klaus Scheffzek, Rainer Pepperkok BMC Biology 2005, 3:21 (7 October 2005)

The expansion of a unique family of essential circularly permuted GTPases related to the human Lsg1 correlates with the evolution of compartmentalization of eukaryotic cells.

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XenDB: Full length cDNA prediction and cross species mapping in Xenopus laevis

Alexander Sczyrba, Michael Beckstette, Ali H Brivanlou, Robert Giegerich, Curtis R Altmann BMC Genomics 2005, 6:123 (14 September 2005)

XenDB is a database of clustered EST and cDNA sequences from Xenopus laevis; ESTs are identified by a suffix array-based clustering approach and will be useful for researchers working on comparative genome analysis.

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FIGENIX: Intelligent automation of genomic annotation: expertise integration in a new software platform

Philippe Gouret, Vérane Vitiello, Nathalie Balandraud, André Gilles, Pierre Pontarotti, Etienne GJ Danchin BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:198 (5 August 2005)

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Evolutionary sequence analysis of complete eukaryote genomes

Jaime E Blair, Prachi Shah, S Blair Hedges BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:53 (11 March 2005)

An evolutionary analysis based only on 'panorthologs' - genes that are found as a single copy among divergent species - matches up well to slower methods in indicating a divergence of deuterostomes and arthropods 400 million years before the Cambrian explosion of fossils.

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An SVD-based comparison of nine whole eukaryotic genomes supports a coelomate rather than ecdysozoan lineage

Gary W Stuart, Michael W Berry BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:204 (17 December 2004)

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A Drosophila protein-interaction map centered on cell-cycle regulators

Clement A Stanyon, Guozhen Liu, Bernardo A Mangiola, Nishi Patel, Loic Giot, Bing Kuang, Huamei Zhang, Jinhui Zhong, Russell L Finley Genome Biology 2004, 5:R96 (26 November 2004)

A Drosophila protein-protein interaction map was constructed using the LexA system, complementing a previous map using the GAL4 system and adding many new interactions.

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Gene family evolution: an in-depth theoretical and simulation analysis of non-linear birth-death-innovation models

Georgy P Karev, Yuri I Wolf, Faina S Berezovskaya, Eugene V Koonin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:32 (9 September 2004)

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Large-scale exploration of growth inhibition caused by overexpression of genomic fragments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jeanne Boyer, Gwenaël Badis, Cécile Fairhead, Emmanuel Talla, Florence Hantraye, Emmanuelle Fabre, Gilles Fischer, Christophe Hennequin, Romain Koszul, Ingrid Lafontaine, Odile Ozier-Kalogeropoulos, Miria Ricchetti, Guy-Franck Richard, Agnès Thierry, Bernard Dujon Genome Biology 2004, 5:R72 (31 August 2004)

A screen of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome for fragments conferring a growth-impairment phenotype identified 714 fragments in about 84,000 clones tested.

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Duplicated genes evolve slower than singletons despite the initial rate increase

I King Jordan, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin BMC Evolutionary Biology 2004, 4:22 (6 July 2004)

Following gene duplication there is a period of rapid evolution, which then slows down in cases where the original gene has an important biological function and the duplicate is retained.