Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Positive natural selection in the evolution of human metapneumovirus attachment glycoprotein.

  PMID 17931731 · PMC7114232 · Virus research · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  8 amino acid sites in the extracellular domain of hMPV lineage 1a show a higher rate of nonsynonymous than synonymous substitutions (posterior probability >0.95), indicating positive selection.

  unique hmpv sequence neighbor-joining codon

• The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease.

  PMID 18837980 · PMC2576240 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Genes predicted to be under positive selection during human evolution are implicated in diseases (epithelial cancers, schizophrenia, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease) that differ in prevalence and symptomatology between humans and other mammals

  orthologous omim meta-database panther comparative disease protein-protein

• Genotyping of genetically monomorphic bacteria: DNA sequencing in Mycobacterium tuberculosis highlights the limitations of current methodologies.

  PMID 19915672 · PMC2772813 · PloS one · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  MLSA of 89 genes across 108 global MTBC strains yields a single, highly robust phylogeny with virtually no homoplasy, congruent across parsimony, NJ, ML, and Bayesian methods.

  global mtbc miru-vntr multilocus spoligotyping 15-loci-miru-vntr

• Positive selection for the male functionality of a co-retroposed gene in the hominoids.

  PMID 19832993 · PMC2773790 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  PIPSL is an extraordinary co-retroposed protein-coding gene that may participate in male-specific functions of humans and close relatives

  african chimpanzee orangutan reconstructed population hka comparative

• GC-biased gene conversion conceals the prediction of the nearly neutral theory in avian genomes.

  PMID 30616647 · PMC6322265 · Genome biology · 2019 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  gBGC conceals the correlation between life-history traits and dN/dS in birds; accounting for it reveals correlations consistent with nearly neutral theory

  avian comparative correlation robustness

• Evolutionary history of the UCP gene family: gene duplication and selection.

  PMID 18980678 · PMC2584656 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The UCP gene family arose through two ancestral gene duplications early in vertebrate evolution, producing the UCP1, UCP2 and UCP3 lineages.

  vertebrate ucp human-mouse ucp1 sequence phylogenetic gene

• Genomic variability within an organism exposes its cell lineage tree.

  PMID 16261192 · PMC1274291 · PLoS computational biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Somatic mutations accumulated during normal development implicitly encode an organism's entire cell lineage tree with very high precision.

  robinia arabidopsis randomly genotyping multiplex computer

• Lineage commitment of dermal fibroblast progenitors is controlled by Kdm6b-mediated chromatin demethylation.

  PMID 37602956 · PMC10548174 · The EMBO journal · 2023 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  E14.5 DFPs have a repressed transcriptional profile marked by high H3K27me3 and inaccessible chromatin at lineage-specific genes

  skin dermal single-cell chamber chip-seq

• Lineage specific recombination rates and microevolution in Listeria monocytogenes.

  PMID 18842152 · PMC2576243 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Recombination is more prevalent in lineage II than in lineage I

  listeria allelic unique monocytogenes multilocus sawyer's genealogical

• Accelerated Evolution of Tissue-Specific Genes Mediates Divergence Amidst Gene Flow in European Green Lizards.

  PMID 33988711 · PMC8382678 · Genome biology and evolution · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The Adriatic lineage is a sister taxon to L. bilineata based on mitogenome and autosomal phylogenies

  adriatic mitochondrial autosomal brain whole-genome phylogenetic d-statistics

• Adaptive history of single copy genes highly expressed in the term human placenta.

  PMID 18848617 · PMC2759754 · Genomics · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  222 single copy eutherian genes are highly expressed (>=3x median) in the term human placenta

  term single same lists microarray comparative site

• Stemming cancer: functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors.

  PMID 18561035 · PMC2758383 · Stem cell reviews · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cancer stem cells are a minority tumor subpopulation that alone can maintain indefinite tumor growth, as shown by serial transplantation experiments

  solid fetal cd133+ breast facs neurosphere genome-wide

• Single-cell transcriptome maps of myeloid blood cell lineages in Drosophila.

  PMID 32900993 · PMC7479620 · Nature communications · 2020 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Single-cell RNA-seq of developing Drosophila lymph glands resolves heterogeneity of hemocytes and identifies major and sub cell types.

  drosophila lymph single single-cell bulk gene

• The jewels of our genome: the search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain.

  PMID 16733552 · PMC1464830 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Human and chimp genomes differ by ~35 million single nucleotide substitutions, corresponding to ~1.06% divergence after removing polymorphic sites

  chimpanzee chimp population non-human genome snp high-density

• Dissection of multiple sclerosis genetics identifies B and CD4+ T cells as driver cell subsets.

  PMID 35672799 · PMC9175345 · Genome biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CD4 T cells and B cells independently mediate MS GWAS genetic signals through their open chromatin regions, beyond shared regulatory landscapes.

  flow-sorted cd4 gwas bulk ldsc

• Integrating multi-omics data reveals the antitumor role and clinical benefits of gamma-delta T cells in triple-negative breast cancer.

  PMID 40197136 · PMC11974128 · BMC cancer · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High γδT cell infiltration is associated with favorable prognosis in TNBC but not in HR-positive or HER2-positive breast cancer

  tnbc tcga-brca metabric single-cell bulk immunohistochemistry

• A novel and dual digestive symbiosis scales up the nutrition and immune system of the holobiont Rimicaris exoculata.

  PMID 36333777 · PMC9636832 · Microbiome · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Genome-resolved metagenomics of separated foregut and midgut reconstructed 20 MAGs including novel lineages of Hepatoplasmataceae (foregut) and Deferribacteres (midgut).

  rimicaris foregut deferribacteres shotgun fluorescence yoyo-1

• Evolutionary modeling of rate shifts reveals specificity determinants in HIV-1 subtypes.

  PMID 18989394 · PMC2566816 · PLoS computational biology · 2008 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  A novel Bayesian method, RASER, can detect site-specific evolutionary rate shifts and the lineages in which they occurred without pre-specifying candidate lineages.

  hiv-1 simulated bayesian simulation structural

• Long-range regulation is a major driving force in maintaining genome integrity.

  PMID 19682388 · PMC2741452 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2009 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Long-range transcriptional regulation is a major driving force in maintaining genome integrity by constraining where chromosomal breakpoints can become fixed.

  opossum genome comparative identification statistical

• Mammary cell gene expression atlas links epithelial cell remodeling events to breast carcinogenesis.

  PMID 34079055 · PMC8172904 · Communications biology · 2021 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An integrated 50K mouse and 24K human mammary epithelial cell atlas (scRNA-seq) captures mammary epithelium reorganization across most lifetime stages.

  surgically mammary menopaused integrated single-cell scrna-seq mammary