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).

• Genetic variation of SARS coronavirus in Beijing Hospital.

  PMID 15200810 · PMC3323231 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2004 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  113 sequence variations at 9 recurrent variant sites were identified in 29 full-length S-gene sequences compared to the BJ01 reference strain

  clinical extracted rna-derived cloned nested screening direct

• 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

• 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

• Conflicting selection pressures target the NS3 protein in hepatitis C virus genotypes 1a and 1b.

  PMID 19896990 · PMC3529174 · Virus research · 2010 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Both HCV-1a and HCV-1b show abundant slightly deleterious nonsynonymous variants subject to ongoing purifying selection across the polyprotein.

  hcv-1a phylogenetic sequence nucleotide

• Absence of mutations in NR2E1 and SNX3 in five patients with MMEP (microcephaly, microphthalmia, ectrodactyly, and prognathism) and related phenotypes.

  PMID 17655765 · PMC1950490 · BMC medical genetics · 2007 · 8 claims · 3 setups

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  No coding mutations were found in NR2E1 or SNX3 in five patients with MMEP or related phenotypes

  patients unaffected sanger restriction

• Distribution and effects of nonsense polymorphisms in human genes.

  PMID 18852891 · PMC2561068 · PloS one · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Nonsense SNPs occur at a lower density than nonsynonymous SNPs, indicating stronger purifying selection against premature stop codons than amino acid changes.

  genome genes nonsense snps genome-wide snp codon

• Distinctive pattern of sequence polymorphism in the NS3 protein of hepatitis C virus type 1b reflects conflicting evolutionary pressures.

  PMID 18632963 · PMC2577380 · The Journal of general virology · 2008 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  NS3 shows less evidence of purifying selection acting on its CTL epitopes than the other 9 HCV proteins, while outside the CTL epitopes NS3 is more conserved than the other proteins.

  complete hcv-1b sequence nonsynonymous comparative neighbor-joining maximum

• Variation in the Neisseria lactamica porin, and its relationship to meningococcal PorB.

  PMID 18451061 · PMC2885628 · Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2008 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  N. lactamica por is less diverse than meningococcal porB2 and porB3

  lactamica unique pcr distance-based population

• Synonymous substitution rates predict HIV disease progression as a result of underlying replication dynamics.

  PMID 17305421 · PMC1797821 · PLoS computational biology · 2007 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The synonymous substitution rate (dS) of HIV env is strongly correlated with disease progression parameters (progression time, CD4+ decline rate, viral load increase rate), unlike the nonsynonymous rate (dN).

  longitudinal backbone env intra-patient relaxed-clock correlation site-to-site

• 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

• 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

• Evidence for positive selection in putative virulence factors within the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis species complex.

  PMID 18820744 · PMC2553485 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Positive selection has played an important role in the molecular evolution of putative virulence factors of P. brasiliensis

  brasiliensis gp43 ratio codon-based mutational

• 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

• Recurring mutations found by sequencing an acute myeloid leukemia genome.

  PMID 19657110 · PMC3201812 · The New England journal of medicine · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Deep paired tumor/normal whole-genome sequencing of a cytogenetically normal AML-M1 genome identified 12 somatic coding (tier 1) mutations and 52 somatic tier 2 (conserved/regulatory) mutations.

  aml-m1 tumor bone additional whole-genome snp gene-expression

• 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