期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background There has always been controversy over whether clonal plants have lower genetic diversity than plants that reproduce sexually. These confli......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background: Although almost all extant spider species live in terrestrial environments, a few species live fully submerged in freshwater or seawater. ......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) proteins are involved in many physiological functions of plant growth and development. Although an incre......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background: Mitochondrial genes encode proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation. Variations in lifestyle and ecological niche can be directly re......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Elongated rostra play an important role in the egg-laying of weevils, and its emergence plays a key role in the adaptive radiation of weevi......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Mutation accumulation (MA) has profound ecological and evolutionary consequences. One example is that accumulation of conditionally neutral......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Color vision and phototactic behavior based on opsins are important for the fitness of insects because of their roles in foraging and mate ......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the main causes of viral hepatitis and liver cancer. HBV integration is one of the key steps in the v......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Synonymous mutations do not alter the amino acids and therefore are regarded as neutral for a long time. However, they do change the tRNA a......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Cultivated tea is one of the most important economic and ecological trees distributed worldwide. Cultivated tea suffer from long-term targe......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background Understanding how island ecosystems change across habitats is a major challenge in ecological conservation under the conditions of habitat ......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
BackgroundAs flatfish, turbot undergo metamorphosis as part of their life cycle. In the larval stage, turbot live at the ocean surface, but after meta......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background The Chengjiang biota from southwest China (518-million-years old, early Cambrian) has yielded nearly 300 species, of which more than 80 spe......
期刊: BMC ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 2021; 21 (1)
Background The taxonomic classification of the suborder Tintinnina Kofoid & Campbell, 1929, a species-rich group of planktonic ciliated protistans......