Selected articles from BGRS\SB-2018: evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology and biodiversity research at BGRS-2018

Authors: Yuriy L. Orlov, Ancha V. Baranova, Nikolay A. Kolchanov and Leonid L. Moroz

Are there gap junctions without connexins or pannexins?

Gap junctions (GJ) are one of the most common forms of intercellular communication. GJs are assembled from proteins that form channels connecting the cytoplasm of adjacent cells. They are considered to be the ...

Authors: Georgy A. Slivko-Koltchik, Victor P. Kuznetsov and Yuri V. Panchin

Transcriptomic analysis confirms differences among nuclear genomes of cryptic earthworm lineages living in sympatry

Many earthworm species demonstrate significant cryptic diversity, with several highly diverged mitochondrial lineages found within most of the taxa studied to date. The status of differences between these line...

Authors: Sergei V. Shekhovtsov, Nikita I. Ershov, Gennady V. Vasiliev and Sergey E. Peltek

mtProtEvol: the resource presenting molecular evolution analysis of proteins involved in the function of Vertebrate mitochondria

Heterotachy is the variation in the evolutionary rate of aligned sites in different parts of the phylogenetic tree. It occurs mainly due to epistatic interactions among the substitutions, which are highly comp...

Authors: Anastasia A. Kuzminkova, Anastasia D. Sokol, Kristina E. Ushakova, Konstantin Yu. Popadin and Konstantin V. Gunbin

Prevalence and genetic diversity of Wolbachia endosymbiont and mtDNA in Palearctic populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Maternally inherited Wolbachia symbionts infect D. melanogaster populations worldwide. Infection rates vary greatly. Genetic diversity of Wolbachia in D. melanogaster can be subdivided into several closely relate...

Authors: Roman А. Bykov, Maria A. Yudina, Nataly E. Gruntenko, Ilya K. Zakharov, Marina A. Voloshina, Elena S. Melashchenko, Maria V. Danilova, Ilia O. Mazunin and Yury Yu. Ilinsky

Effect of early experience on neuronal and behavioral responses to con- and heterospecific odors in closely related Mus taxa: epigenetic contribution in formation of precopulatory isolation

The most effective learning occurs during sensitive periods. Olfactory plasticity to main social olfactory cues is limited to a critical period to a large degree. The objective was to evaluate the influence of...

Authors: Elena Kotenkova, Alex Romachenko, Alexander Ambaryan and Aleksei Maltsev

Inheritance of the acoustic signal parameters in interspecific hybrids of the bank (Myodes glareolus) and the Tien Shan (M. centralis) voles

The continuity of behavioral responses in the traits of offspring can be interpreted ambiguously because animal behavior can be transmitted from generation to generation genetically or can be trained. Inherita...

Authors: Marina Vladimirovna Rutovskaya

Characterization of repeated DNA sequences in genomes of blue-flowered flax

Members of different sections of the genus Linum are characterized by wide variability in size, morphology and number of chromosomes in karyotypes. Since such variability is determined mainly by the amount and co...

Authors: Nadezhda L. Bolsheva, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Ilya V. Kirov, Alexey A. Dmitriev, George S. Krasnov, Аlexandra V. Amosova, Tatiana E. Samatadze, Olga Yu. Yurkevich, Svyatoslav A. Zoshchuk, Anna V. Kudryavtseva and Olga V. Muravenko

Structural and functional divergence of the Mpc1 genes in wheat and barley

The members of the Triticeae tribe are characterised by the presence of orthologous and homoeologous gene copies regulating flavonoid biosynthesis. Among transcription factors constituting a regulatory MBW com...

Authors: Ksenia V. Strygina and Elena K. Khlestkina