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2002 Neodarwinism and infectious diseases transmission: an e-debate.

scientific article published in May 2002

A methodological bias toward overestimation of molecular evolutionary time scales

scientific article

A new Drosophila spliceosomal intron position is common in plants

scholarly article

ADAPTIVE DIFFERENTIATION WITH LITTLE GENIC CHANGE BETWEEN TWO NATIVE CALIFORNIA MINNOWS.

scientific article published in September 1975

Adaptations of Trypanosoma brucei to gradual loss of kinetoplast DNA: Trypanosoma equiperdum and Trypanosoma evansi are petite mutants of T. brucei

scientific article

African apes as reservoirs of Plasmodium falciparum and the origin and diversification of the Laverania subgenus

scientific article

African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article

African monkeys are infected by Plasmodium falciparum nonhuman primate-specific strains

scientific article

Alternative splicing: a missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain

scientific article (publication date: 20 May 2008)

Ape malaria transmission and potential for ape-to-human transfers in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 10 May 2016)

Art and brain coevolution

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

Both endo-siRNAs and tRNA-derived small RNAs are involved in the differentiation of primitive eukaryote Giardia lamblia

scientific article

Cancer in the parasitic protozoans Trypanosoma brucei and Toxoplasma gondii

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Characterization of a Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase-encoding gene region in Drosophila willistoni

scientific article published on September 1994

Chromosome speciation: humans, Drosophila, and mosquitoes

scientific article

Climate change and the integrity of science

scientific article

Clonal population structure and genetic diversity of Candida albicans in AIDS patients from Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).

scholarly article

Cloning humans? Biological, ethical, and social considerations

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2015)

Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution II: biodiversity and extinction

scientific article

Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution IV: the human condition

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2010)

Colloquium paper: the difference of being human: morality

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2010)

Comparative transcriptome analysis of small noncoding RNAs in different stages of Trypanosoma brucei

scientific article published on 23 May 2013

Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of the Cherskii's Sculpin Cottus czerskii and Siberian Taimen Hucho taimen Reveal GenBank Entry Errors: Incorrect Species Identification and Recombinant Mitochondrial Genome

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Complete mitochondrial genome of Sakhalin taimen Parahucho perryi (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae) without two frame-disrupting indels in the ND4 gene

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Complete mitochondrial genome of Siberian taimen, Hucho taimen not introgressed by the lenok subspecies, Brachymystax lenok and B. lenok tsinlingensis

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

Complete mitochondrial genome of blunt-snouted lenok Brachymystax tumensis (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Kamchatka grayling Thymallus mertensii (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).

scientific article

Complete mitochondrial genome of the surf smelt Hypomesus japonicus (Osmeriformes, Osmeridae)

Complete mitochondrial genome of the white char Salvelinus albus (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Complete mitochondrial genomes of the Northern (Salvelinus malma) and Southern (Salvelinus curilus) Dolly Varden chars (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae).

scientific article published on 12 June 2014

Complete mitochondrial genomes of the anadromous and resident forms of the lamprey Lethenteron camtschaticum

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Complex Interplay of Evolutionary Forces in the ladybird Homeobox Genes of Drosophila melanogaster ⬇️

scientific article published on July 22, 2011

Computational methods of identification of pseudogenes based on functionality: entropy and GC content

scientific article published in January 2014

Convergent neofunctionalization by positive Darwinian selection after ancient recurrent duplications of the xanthine dehydrogenase gene

scientific article published on 23 October 2003

Correction for Nébavi et al., Clonal population structure and genetic diversity of Candida albicans in AIDS patients from Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).

scholarly article

Cryptosporidium,Giardia, Cryptococcus, Pneumocystis genetic variability: cryptic biological species or clonal near-clades?

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

DEEP-SEA ASTEROIDS: HIGH GENETIC VARIABILITY IN A STABLE ENVIRONMENT.

scientific article published in June 1975

DENSITY-DEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER.

scientific article published in March 1989

DNA polymorphism and selection at the bindin locus in three Strongylocentrotus sp. (Echinoidea).

scientific article

DNA polymorphism in the beta-Esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article

DNA variation and symbiotic associations in phenotypically diverse sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius

scholarly article

DNA variation in the phenotypically-diverse brown alga Saccharina japonica ⬇️

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Darwin and the scientific method

scientific article (publication date: 16 June 2009)

Darwin at 200

scientific article (publication date: 24 February 2009)

Darwin's explanation of design: from natural theology to natural selection

scientific article published on October 2009

Darwin's greatest discovery: design without designer

scientific article

Dating the tree of life

scientific article published in June 2003

Ddc and amd sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships of Drosophila

scientific article published in August 2001

Differences in iNOS and arginase expression and activity in the macrophages of rats are responsible for the resistance against T. gondii infection

scientific article

Disparate evolution of paralogous introns in the Xdh gene of Drosophila

scientific article published on February 2000

Diversity, host switching and evolution of Plasmodium vivax infecting African great apes

scientific article published on May 2013

Elixir of life: In vino veritas ⬇️

scientific article published on February 3, 2011

Emergence of new alleles of the MSP-3alpha gene in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Korea

scientific article

Encephalitis is mediated by ROP18 of Toxoplasma gondii, a severe pathogen in AIDS patients.

scientific article

Entropy and GC Content in the beta-esterase gene cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup

scientific article published on 22 June 2005

Erratic evolution of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in Drosophila, Chymomyza, and Ceratitis

scientific article published in January 1997

Evidence against the exon theory of genes derived from the triose-phosphate isomerase gene ⬇️

scientific article published on August 29, 1995

Evidence for a high ancestral GC content in Drosophila

scientific article published in November 2000

Evidence for clonal propagation in natural isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from Venezuela

scientific article

Evidence for positive selection in the superoxide dismutase (Sod) region of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on April 1994

Evidence of diversifying selection in human papillomavirus type 16 E6 but not E7 oncogenes

scientific article

Evolution / Theodosius Dobzhansky, et al. - 1977 ⬇️

book

Evolution of cis-regulatory regions versus codifying regions.

scientific article published on January 2003

Evolution of the Drosophila obscura species group inferred from the Gpdh and Sod genes

scientific article

Evolution vs. creationism

scientific article published in January 2006

Evolutionary and geographical history of the Leishmania donovani complex with a revision of current taxonomy

scientific article

Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis

scientific article

FOUNDER-FLUSH SPECIATION IN DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA: A LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENT.

scientific article published in April 1993

Fertility and viability at the Sod locus in Drosophila melanogaster: non-additive and asymmetric selection

scientific article published on 01 June 1991

Fluctuating mutation bias and the evolution of base composition in Drosophila

scientific article published on January 2000

Founder-effect speciation theory: failure of experimental corroboration

scientific article

From the Academy: Colloquium Perspective: In the light of evolution I: Adaptation and complex design

scholarly article

GENETIC AND REPRODUCTIVE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE SUBSPECIES, DROSOPHILA EQUINOXIALIS CARIBBENSIS.

scientific article published in March 1974

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN SPECIES OF THE GENUS SPEYERIA (LEPIDOPTERA: NYMPHALIDAE).

scientific article

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION DURING THE SPECIATION PROCESS IN DROSOPHILA.

scientific article published in December 1974

GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION IN SPECIOSE VERSUS DEPAUPERATE PHYLADS: EVIDENCE FROM THE CALIFORNIA MINNOWS.

scientific article published in March 1976

GENETIC VARIATION IN TRIDACNA MAXIMA, AN ECOLOGICAL ANALOG OF SOME UNSUCCESSFUL EVOLUTIONARY LINEAGES.

scientific article published in June 1973

Genera of the human lineage

scientific article (publication date: 24 June 2003)

Genetic characterization of six parasitic protozoa: parity between random-primer DNA typing and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis

scientific article

Genetic polymorphism at two linked loci, Sod and Est-6, in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Genetic polymorphism of Plasmodium vivax msp1p, a paralog of merozoite surface protein 1, from worldwide isolates

scientific article

Genetic variability in a temperate intertidal phoronid, Phoronopsis viridis

scientific article published in June 1974

Genetic variation in IncI1-ColIb plasmids.

scientific article published in August 1994

Guanylate-binding protein 1 (GBP1) contributes to the immunity of human mesenchymal stromal cells against Toxoplasma gondii

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

High fidelity of the polymerase chain reaction ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1991

Highly rearranged mitochondrial genome in Nycteria parasites (Haemosporidia) from bats

scientific article

How clonal are Neisseria species? The epidemic clonality model revisited

scientific article published in July 2015

INTERSPECIFIC LABORATORY COMPETITION OF THE RECENTLY SYMPATRIC SPECIES DROSOPHILA SUBOBSCURA AND DROSOPHILA PSEUDOOBSCURA.

scientific article published in February 1998

ISOZYME VARIABILITY IN TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, THE AGENT OF CHAGAS' DISEASE: GENETICAL, TAXONOMICAL, AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE.

scientific article published on March 1988

In the light of evolution III: two centuries of Darwin

scholarly article

In the light of evolution IX: Clonal reproduction: Alternatives to sex.

scientific article published in July 2015

In the light of evolution V: cooperation and conflict

scientific article

In the light of evolution VI: Brain and behavior ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 2012

In the light of evolution VII: The human mental machinery

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

In the light of evolution VIII: Darwinian thinking in the social sciences. Introduction

scientific article

In the light of evolution X: Comparative phylogeography

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Infection by Toxoplasma gondii, a severe parasite in neonates and AIDS patients, causes impaired anion secretion in airway epithelia

scientific article

Interspecific Laboratory Competition of the Recently Sympatric Species Drosophila subobscura and Drosophila pseudoobscura

article

Intra- and intergenotypic competition in Drosophila melanogaster: effects of density on larval survival and rate of development

article

Irradiation-resistance conferred by superoxide dismutase: possible adaptive role of a natural polymorphism in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on February 1986

Is ectopic expression caused by deregulatory mutations or due to gene-regulation leaks with evolutionary potential?

scientific article

John C. Avise--recipient of 2006 Molecular Ecology prize

scientific article published in January 2007

Las herramientas nos hicieron humanos. El papel de la tecnología en la evolución biológica y social del género Homo

Malaria continues to select for sickle cell trait in Central Africa

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Medical Informatics and the "Three Long, One Short" Problem of Large Urban Hospitals in China

scientific article

Mitochondrial DNA variation and introgression in Siberian taimen Hucho taimen

scientific article

Mitochondrial localization of human frataxin is necessary but processing is not for rescuing frataxin deficiency in Trypanosoma brucei

scholarly article

Models of spliceosomal intron proliferation in the face of widespread ectopic expression

scientific article

Molecular clock or erratic evolution? A tale of two genes

scientific article published on October 1996

Molecular drift of the bride of sevenless (boss) gene in Drosophila

scientific article published in September 1993

Molecular evolution of the Est-6 gene in Drosophila melanogaster: contrasting patterns of DNA variability in adjacent functional regions

scientific article published in April 2002

Molecular evolution of the Rh3 gene in Drosophila

scientific article published in January 1993

Molecular population genetics of the beta-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in December 2003

Multiple independent introductions of Plasmodium falciparum in South America

scientific article

New insights into clonality and panmixia in Plasmodium and toxoplasma

scientific article

Nitric oxide blocks the development of the human parasite Schistosoma japonicum

scientific article

Nucleotide variation at the dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) gene in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in August 2007

Nucleotide variation in the tinman and bagpipe homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Nucleotide variation of the Est-6 gene region in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster.

scientific article

Null allele, allelic dropouts or rare sex detection in clonal organisms: simulations and application to real data sets of pathogenic microbes

scientific article

ON THE ORIGIN OF INCIPIENT REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION: THE CASE OF DROSOPHILA ALBOMICANS AND D. NASUTA.

scientific article

One hundred fifty years without Darwin are enough!

scientific article published in May 2009

Origins and evolution of spliceosomal introns

scientific article

Overcompensation as a mechanism for maintaining polymorphism: egg-to-adult viability in Drosophila

scientific article

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MAN AND THE APES: ELECTROPHORETIC EVIDENCE.

scientific article

PRESUMPTIVE RAPID SPECIATION AFTER A FOUNDER EVENT IN A LABORATORY POPULATION OF NEREIS: ALLOZYME ELECTROPHORETIC EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE HYPOTHESIS.

scientific article published in February 1996

Patterns of DNA sequence polymorphism at Sod vicinities in Drosophila melanogaster: unraveling the footprint of a recent selective sweep

scientific article

Patterns of selection on Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding antigens after the colonization of the New World

scientific article published in April 2014

Phylogenetic character mapping of RADES Probing, a new marker for exploring the clonal evolution of expressed coding sequences in Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

Phylogenetic character mapping of proteomic diversity shows high correlation with subspecific phylogenetic diversity in Trypanosoma cruzi

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships among species groups of the virilis-repleta radiation of Drosophila

scientific article published in November 2001

Phylogeny of Drosophila and related genera inferred from the nucleotide sequence of the Cu,Zn Sod gene

scientific article published on May 1994

Plasmodium falciparumis not as lonely as previously considered ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Plasmodium vivax: recent world expansion and genetic identity to Plasmodium simium

scientific article

Polymorphism patterns in two tightly linked developmental genes, Idgf1 and Idgf3, of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article

Population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the two main African vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus

scientific article

Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the agent of sleeping sickness in Western Africa

scholarly article

Positive and negative selection in the beta-esterase gene cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup

scientific article published on 17 March 2006

Presumptive Rapid Speciation After a Founder Event in a Laboratory Population of Nereis: Allozyme Electrophoretic Evidence Does not Support the Hypotheses

article

Progress in malaria research: the case for phylogenetics

scientific article published on January 2003

Pseudogene-derived small interference RNAs regulate gene expression in African Trypanosoma brucei

scientific article

Pseudogenes are not pseudo any more

scientific article published on January 2012

Pseudogenes: Are They “Junk” or Functional DNA? ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Relevant units of analysis for applied and basic research dealing with neglected transmissible diseases: The predominant clonal evolution model of pathogenic microorganisms

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Remembrances of Walter M. Fitch ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Reply to Sharp et al.: Host species sampling bias and Plasmodium falciparum origin paradigm shifts ⬇️

scientific article published on October 25, 2011

Reproductive clonality in protozoan pathogens--truth or artifact? A comment on Ramírez and Llewellyn

scientific article

Reproductive clonality of pathogens: A perspective on pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic protozoa ⬇️

scientific article published on September 4, 2012

Science, evolution and natural selection: in praise of Darwin at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples

scientific article published in January 2015

Science, evolution, and creationism

scientific article (publication date: 8 January 2008)

Sequence variation in the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHFR-TS) and trypanothione reductase (TR) genes of Trypanosoma cruzi

scientific article published in April 2002

Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty

scholarly article

Shared nucleotide composition biases among species and their impact on phylogenetic reconstructions of the Drosophilidae

scientific article published in August 2001

Symbiotic Associations in the Phenotypically-Diverse Brown Alga Saccharina japonica ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 2012

Systematics and the origin of species: an introduction

scientific article published on 25 April 2005

Taeniid history, natural selection and antigenic diversity: evolutionary theory meets helminthology

scientific article published on 07 January 2008

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory : on Stephen Jay Gould's Monumental Masterpiece

scientific article

The Vatican and evolution.

scientific article published in January 2007

The Vein Patterning 1 (VEP1) gene family laterally spread through an ecological network

scientific article

The beta-esterase gene cluster of drosophila melanogaster: is psiEst-6 a pseudogene, a functional gene, or both?

scientific article

The clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: 12 years on.

scientific article

The effect of superoxide dismutase alleles on aging in Drosophila

scientific article published in January 1993

The emergence and development of genetics in Mexico

scientific article

The extension of biology through culture

scientific article

The mechanisms of evolution / Fransisco J. Ayala. - (9.1978)

Article from 'Scientific American' published on 1978

The origin of malignant malaria

scientific article

The population genetics of Trypanosoma cruzi revisited in the light of the predominant clonal evolution model

scientific article

The rhetorical construction of Eldredge and Gould's article on the theory of punctuated equilibria in 1972.

scientific article published on January 2008

Theodosius Dobzhansky's role in the emergence and institutionalization of genetics in Mexico

scientific article

Tracking zoonotic pathogens using blood-sucking flies as 'flying syringes'

scientific article (publication date: 28 March 2017)

Tree rooting with outgroups when they differ in their nucleotide composition from the ingroup: the Drosophila saltans and willistoni groups, a case study

scientific article published in September 2000

Trypanosoma brucei: two steps to spread out from Africa

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Two distinct cytokinesis pathways drive trypanosome cell division initiation from opposite cell ends

scientific article

Two modes of balancing selection in Drosophila melanogaster: overcompensation and overdominance

scientific article

Unresolved direction of host transfer of Plasmodium vivax v. P. simium and P. malariae v. P. brasilianum ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 2010

Walter Monroe Fitch (May 21, 1929 - March 10, 2011): A memorial tribute ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2012

Where is Darwin 200 years later?

scientific article published in December 2008

Which brain networks related to art perception are we talking about?: Comment on "Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective,

scientific article published on 17 May 2017

Wild chimpanzees are infected by Trypanosoma brucei

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Wineries, drosophila, alcohol, and Adh.

scientific article published in January 1980

Xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH): episodic evolution of a "neutral" protein

scientific article published in October 2001

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