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).

• Evolution and codon usage bias of mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in Aspergillus section Flavi.

  PMID 36305682 · PMC9836360 · G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 85

  18 new mitochondrial genomes were assembled for Aspergillus section Flavi species, complementing 3 existing reference mitogenomes, for a total of 20 species analyzed.

  aspergillus circularized core orthologous mitogenome read organellar

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

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

  Full-text index only

  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

• A computational screen for type I polyketide synthases in metagenomics shotgun data.

  PMID 18953415 · PMC2568958 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  Combining HMM domain searches with maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees can discriminate true PKS I sequences from evolutionarily related but functionally different enzymes (e.g., FAS I) in metagenomic data.

  predicted hmm-identified reference hmm hmm maximum-likelihood robinson-foulds

• Global distribution of rubella virus genotypes.

  PMID 14720390 · PMC3034328 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2003 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  Phylogenetic analysis of 103 E1 gene sequences from 17 countries confirms at least two rubella virus genotypes, RGI and RGII

  rubella same phylogenetic genetic virus

• Transduplication resulted in the incorporation of two protein-coding sequences into the turmoil-1 transposable element of C. elegans.

  PMID 18842128 · PMC2572040 · Biology direct · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  The Turmoil-1 transposable element in C. elegans incorporated two unrelated protein-coding sequences into its inverted terminal repeats (ITRs)

  turmoil-1 rrm elegans predicted pairwise maximum genome-wide

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

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

  Full-text index only

  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

• The repertoire of G protein-coupled receptors in the sea squirt Ciona intestinalis.

  PMID 18452600 · PMC2396169 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 5 setups

  Full-text index only

  169 gene products in the Ciona genome were identified as putative GPCRs

  ciona sequence molecular est

• Bayesian coestimation of phylogeny and sequence alignment.

  PMID 15804354 · PMC1087833 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 7 claims · 3 setups

  Full-text index only

  Alignment and phylogenetic inference are mutually dependent, and treating them as separate sequential steps (align then infer tree) is fundamentally flawed and produces biased, overconfident estimates.

  globin same four-sequence bayesian mcmc comparison

• Evolutionary sequence analysis of complete eukaryote genomes.

  PMID 15762985 · PMC1274250 · BMC bioinformatics · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  A conservative genome-comparison method (MIA) identifies panorthologs — strict single-copy 1:1 orthologs containing only species divergences, no paralogy — to minimize errors from gene duplication in evolutionary sequence analysis.

  complete panortholog concatenated individual reciprocal sequence neighbor-joining

• A target enrichment method for gathering phylogenetic information from hundreds of loci: An example from the Compositae.

  PMID 25202605 · PMC4103609 · Applications in plant sciences · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 87

  A custom sequence capture probe set (9678 baits targeting 1061 orthologous genes) was designed to enrich COS loci across the Compositae.

  compositae same species helianthus targeted genome genomic

• Multilocus sequence typing supports the hypothesis that Ochrobactrum anthropi displays a human-associated subpopulation.

  PMID 20021660 · PMC2810298 · BMC microbiology · 2009 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  A novel Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) scheme for O. anthropi was developed for the first time, based on 7 genes (3490 nucleotides) evolving mostly by neutral mutations

  anthropi same candidate multi-locus pulsed-field antibiotyping

• The other side of comparative genomics: genes with no orthologs between the cow and other mammalian species.

  PMID 20003425 · PMC2808326 · BMC genomics · 2009 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Full-text index only

  3,801 bovine genes have no orthologs in human, mouse and dog, and 1,010 human genes have no orthologs in cow despite having orthologs in mouse and dog

  bovine cow coding blast-based ensembl gene

• Evidence of recombination in Hepatitis C Virus populations infecting a hemophiliac patient.

  PMID 19922637 · PMC2784780 · Virology journal · 2009 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  A new intragenotypic recombinant HCV strain (1b/1a), named H23, was detected in 1 of 10 hemophiliac patients studied

  hcv 5'ncr serum maximum sequence recombination

• Phylogeographic reconstruction of a bacterial species with high levels of lateral gene transfer.

  PMID 19922616 · PMC2784454 · BMC biology · 2009 · 8 claims · 7 setups

  Full-text index only

  The ratio of homologous recombination to mutation in B. pseudomallei is over two times higher than in Streptococcus pneumoniae, the highest yet reported in bacteria.

  isolates genome snp snps multilocus genome bayesian

• Getting positive about selection.

  PMID 12914654 · PMC193638 · Genome biology · 2003 · 8 claims · 4 setups

  Full-text index only

  Purifying selection is the predominant form of molecular evolution, preserving fitness by eliminating deleterious mutations, while positive selection is rare but critical for adaptation.

  genome chimpanzee human-chimpanzee humans whole-genome ratio maximum-likelihood

• Genome-wide survey for biologically functional pseudogenes.

  PMID 16680195 · PMC1456316 · PLoS computational biology · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  A subset of ancient, cross-species-conserved pseudogenes (30 of 1,453 candidate quartets) show evidence consistent with retained biological function

  human-mouse chimpanzee cross-species maximum-likelihood synteny

• Comparative genomics of the syndecans defines an ancestral genomic context associated with matrilins in vertebrates.

  PMID 16620374 · PMC1464127 · BMC genomics · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  Syndecan-encoding sequences are present in Cnidaria and throughout the Bilateria, showing deep conservation of the family.

  invertebrate syndecan full-length chicken wu-blastp clustalw tcoffee

• Whole-Genome Sequence of Cervid atadenovirus A from the Initial Cases of an Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease Epizootic of Black-Tailed Deer in Canada.

  PMID 36129291 · PMC9584332 · Microbiology resource announcements · 2022 · 7 claims · 4 setups

  Has reproduction · 81

  A complete 30,616-nucleotide genome of Cervid atadenovirus A was determined from lung tissue of black-tailed deer that died of AHD in British Columbia in 2020

  lung sequencing assembled deer high-throughput metagenomic reference

• Evaluation of core genome and whole genome multilocus sequence typing schemes for Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli outbreak detection in the USA.

  PMID 37133905 · PMC10272873 · Microbial genomics · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

  Has reproduction · 92

  cgMLST, wgMLST and hqSNP WGS-based analysis methods clustered C. jejuni and C. coli isolates in concordance with epidemiological data.

  jejuni same subset isolate cgmlst hqsnp genome

• Ancient adaptive evolution of the primate antiviral DNA-editing enzyme APOBEC3G.

  PMID 15269786 · PMC479043 · PLoS biology · 2004 · 7 claims · 6 setups

  Full-text index only

  APOBEC3G has been under strong, recurrent positive selection throughout primate evolution (~33 million years)

  apobec3g pairwise human-chimpanzee apobec1 pcr phylogenetic sliding