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

• 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

• Traces of archaic mitochondrial lineages persist in Austronesian-speaking Formosan populations.

  PMID 15984912 · PMC1166350 · PLoS biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Most mtDNA lineages in Taiwanese aboriginal populations are distinct from those in China and the Taiwan Han population, consistent with descent from the island's initial late Pleistocene settlers

  indigenous b4a-lineage southeast populations mtdna complete rflp

• The stem cell population of the human colon crypt: analysis via methylation patterns.

  PMID 17335343 · PMC1808490 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  A coalescent-based, full probabilistic model with MCMC Bayesian inference provides a more powerful alternative to prior forward-simulation approaches for analyzing methylation pattern data from crypts.

  colon computational simulated bisulfite coalescent posterior

• Gene duplication: the genomic trade in spare parts.

  PMID 15252449 · PMC449868 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Gene duplication relaxes selective constraint on one copy, allowing exploration of evolutionary space that is otherwise forbidden in single-copy genes, making duplication the major opportunity for new gene function evolution.

  great genome recently yeast genome-wide molecular comparative

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The role of genomics in tracking the evolution of influenza A virus.

  PMID 19855818 · PMC2739293 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Antigenic drift, driven by selection for amino acid changes in exposed hemagglutinin epitope sites, is the main mechanism by which influenza A evades pre-existing immunity between pandemics.

  hemagglutinin influenza ferrets nonsynonymous antigenic whole-genome

• Environmental Drivers of Genetic Divergence in Two Corals From the Florida Keys.

  PMID 40589611 · PMC12206660 · Evolutionary applications · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Temperature was not the most important driver of coral genetic divergence in the Florida Keys; depth and water chemistry were more important

  agaricia agaricites coral sites 2brad population hierarchical

• Integrative transcriptome sequencing identifies trans-splicing events with important roles in human embryonic stem cell pluripotency.

  PMID 24131564 · PMC3875859 · Genome research · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  TSscan, a computational pipeline integrating long- and short-read transcriptome sequencing from multiple hESC lines, can detect trans-splicing while minimizing false positives from experimental artifacts and genetic rearrangements.

  hesc hescs long-read short-read rt-pcr

• Modeling chromosomes in mouse to explore the function of genes, genomic disorders, and chromosomal organization.

  PMID 16839184 · PMC1500809 · PLoS genetics · 2006 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Cre/loxP recombination in ES cells can generate megabase-scale deletions, duplications, and inversions depending on loxP orientation, cis/trans configuration, and cell cycle stage

  hybrid recombinant mice homologous cre clone

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals.

  PMID 24005325 · PMC3836225 · Nature · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genome-wide convergent sequence evolution between echolocating lineages is not rare but widespread and continuously distributed, with signatures consistent with convergence in nearly 200 loci out of 2,326 examined.

  four raw orthologous mammalian whole-genome novo homology-based

• Influenza A (H3N2) outbreak, Nepal.

  PMID 16102305 · PMC3320503 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2005 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  Nepal H3N2 outbreak isolates show antigenic drift, with ~40% antigenically distinct from the A/Wyoming/3/03 vaccine strain by hemagglutination inhibition

  influenza throat ha1 amino hemagglutination rt-pcr rapid

• 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

• Accelerated evolution of the ASPM gene controlling brain size begins prior to human brain expansion.

  PMID 15045028 · PMC374243 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  The ASPM gene shows accelerated (positively selected) evolution in the African hominoid clade, and this acceleration precedes hominid brain expansion by several million years.

  chimpanzee retrofitted primate aspm tar restriction genomic