Selected articles from BGRS\SB-2016: evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology at BGRS\SB-2016

Authors: Ancha V. Baranova and Yuriy L. Orlov

Phylogeography of human Y-chromosome haplogroup Q3-L275 from an academic/citizen science collaboration

The Y-chromosome haplogroup Q has three major branches: Q1, Q2, and Q3. Q1 is found in both Asia and the Americas where it accounts for about 90% of indigenous Native American Y-chromosomes; Q2 is found in Nor...

Authors: Oleg Balanovsky, Vladimir Gurianov, Valery Zaporozhchenko, Olga Balaganskaya, Vadim Urasin, Maxat Zhabagin, Viola Grugni, Rebekah Canada, Nadia Al-Zahery, Alessandro Raveane, Shao-Qing Wen, Shi Yan, Xianpin Wang, Pierre Zalloua, Abdullah Marafi, Sergey Koshel…

Genomic landscape of CpG rich elements in human

The studies on CpG islands (CGI) and Alu elements functions, evolution, and distribution in the genome started since the discovery in nineteen eighties (1981, 1986, correspondingly). Their highly skewed genome...

Authors: Vladimir N. Babenko, Irina V. Chadaeva and Yuriy L. Orlov

Mix-and-matching as a promoter recognition mechanism by ECF σ factors

Transcription initiation is in bacteria exhibited by different σ factors, most of which fall within σ⁷⁰ family. This family is diverse, ranging from the housekeeping Group I (RpoDs), to Group IV (ECF) σ factors, ...

Authors: Jelena Guzina and Marko Djordjevic

In silico evolution of the Drosophila gap gene regulatory sequence under elevated mutational pressure

Cis-regulatory sequences are often composed of many low-affinity transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). Determining the evolutionary and functional importance of regulatory sequen...

Authors: Aleksandra A. Chertkova, Joshua S. Schiffman, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, Konstantin N. Kozlov, Maria G. Samsonova and Vitaly V. Gursky

Genomic exaptation enables Lasius niger adaptation to urban environments

The world is rapidly urbanizing, and only a subset of species are able to succeed in stressful city environments. Efficient genome-enabled stress response appears to be a likely prerequisite for urban adaptati...

Authors: Evgenii A. Konorov, Mikhail A. Nikitin, Kirill V Mikhailov, Sergey N. Lysenkov, Mikhail Belenky, Peter L. Chang, Sergey V. Nuzhdin and Victoria A. Scobeyeva

Molecular cytogenetic analysis reveals the existence of two independent neo-XY sex chromosome systems in Anatolian Pamphagidae grasshoppers

Neo-XY sex chromosome determination is a rare event in short horned grasshoppers, but it appears with unusual frequency in the Pamphagidae family. The neo-Y chromosomes found in several species appear to have ...

Authors: Ilyas Yerkinovich Jetybayev, Alexander Gennadievich Bugrov, Mustafa Ünal, Olesya Georgievna Buleu and Nikolay Borisovich Rubtsov