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).

• From tides to nucleotides: Genomic signatures of adaptation to environmental heterogeneity in barnacles.

  PMID 33960035 · PMC9292448 · Molecular ecology · 2021 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  382 (over 383) genomic regions contain SNPs that are consistently zonated across all surveyed intertidal habitats spanning the North Atlantic.

  semibalanus individual rocky barnacles pool-seq sanger temperature

• Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and plague pandemics.

  PMID 15498160 · PMC3320270 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2004 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Multiple spacer typing (MST), based on intergenic spacer sequencing, differentiates the three Y. pestis biovars

  pestis combined dental contemporary spacer phylogenetic pcr

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

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

  Has reproduction · 64

  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

• Sequencing of 16S rRNA gene: a rapid tool for identification of Bacillus anthracis.

  PMID 12396926 · PMC2730316 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2002 · 7 claims · 4 setups

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  All 86 B. anthracis isolates tested share an identical 16S rRNA gene sequence, designated 16S type 6

  bacillus clinical additional 16s nested comparative

• The formation of avian montane diversity across barriers and along elevational gradients.

  PMID 35022441 · PMC8755808 · Nature communications · 2022 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Genetic differentiation is generally greater across the oceanic barrier separating Buru and Seram than across the lowland barrier separating New Guinea mountain ranges.

  forest population individuals single whole-genome f_st principal

• RPS4Y gene family evolution in primates.

  PMID 18477388 · PMC2397393 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  The duplication event giving rise to RPS4Y2 occurred after the divergence of New World monkeys, about 35 million years ago.

  primate chromosomes rps4x concatenated pcr fluorescence repeat

• Genetic polymorphisms of Echinococcus tapeworms in China as determined by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences.

  PMID 19800346 · PMC2823955 · International journal for parasitology · 2010 · 8 claims · 7 setups

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  Species identification by mitochondrial (cox1) and nuclear (ef1a) markers was identical across isolates, indicating introgressive hybridization among sympatric Echinococcus species is infrequent.

  granulosus multilocularis shiquicus echinococcus mitochondrial nuclear statistical

• Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality.

  PMID 40990923 · PMC12687342 · Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2025 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  The LWS opsin gene was identified in 13 species of caecilians spanning 8 of 10 recognized families

  caecilian caecilia archival lws pcr eye histology

• Insights into the differentiation and adaptation within Circaeasteraceae from Circaeaster agrestis genome sequencing and resequencing.

  PMID 36895650 · PMC9988679 · iScience · 2023 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  C. agrestis and K. uniflora are sister species with contrasting reproductive modes, providing a natural system to test effects of sexual vs asexual reproduction on genome evolution

  circaeaster agrestis genome gene kmer-based

• Machine learning reveals microbial interactions driving plastic degradation across plastisphere environments.

  PMID 41657981 · PMC12876002 · Frontiers in microbiology · 2025 · 6 claims · 7 setups

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  Wastewater plastispheres harbor the most diverse and compositionally even microbial communities among the three habitats.

  ocean wastewater surface plastisphere 16s alpha beta

• 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

• Evolutionary comparison provides evidence for pathogenicity of RMRP mutations.

  PMID 16244706 · PMC1262189 · PLoS genetics · 2005 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  Putative pathogenic RMRP mutations are located in highly conserved nucleotides across mammals, whereas polymorphisms are located in non-conserved positions.

  genomic rmrp family non-finnish sequencing comparative microsatellite

• Ordinal-level phylogenomics of the arthropod class Diplopoda (millipedes) based on an analysis of 221 nuclear protein-coding loci generated using next-generation sequence analyses.

  PMID 24236165 · PMC3827447 · PloS one · 2013 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  An ordinal-level phylogeny of Diplopoda reconstructed from 221 nuclear protein-coding loci (61,641 aligned amino acid columns) differs from existing classifications in fundamental ways.

  exemplar paired-end cleaned assembled transcriptome read novo

• Genomic signatures of human versus avian influenza A viruses.

  PMID 17073083 · PMC3294750 · Emerging infectious diseases · 2006 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  52 validated 'species-associated' amino acid positions distinguish human from avian influenza A viruses

  throat clinical 401-genome avian rt-pcr immunofluorescent sequence

• Expression Atlas update--a database of gene and transcript expression from microarray- and sequencing-based functional genomics experiments.

  PMID 24304889 · PMC3964963 · Nucleic acids research · 2014 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Expression Atlas is a value-added database providing gene, protein and splice variant expression across cell types, organism parts, developmental stages, diseases and other biological/experimental conditions, built from manually curated high-quality microarray and RNA-sequencing experiments from ArrayExpress.

  organisms arrayexpress-derived pride rna-sequencing single-channel two-colour

• Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription.

  PMID 26618080 · PMC4655093 · PeerJ · 2015 · 6 claims · 6 setups

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  Phylogenetic analyses of full mitochondrial gene sets recover siphonophores as the first diverging clade within Hydroidolina, a well-supported Leptothecata–Filifera III–IV clade, and a second clade of Aplanulata–Capitata s.s.–Filifera I–II.

  hydrozoan nanomia liriope concatenated long-range rna-seq dna-seq

• Genome and cuticular hydrocarbon-based species delimitation shed light on potential drivers of speciation in a Neotropical ant species complex.

  PMID 35342602 · PMC8928884 · Ecology and evolution · 2022 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  At least five distinct species exist within the E. ruidum species complex

  ruidum cox1 cox1 3rad ultraconserved

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

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

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

  apobec3g pairwise human-chimpanzee apobec1 pcr phylogenetic sliding

• Shooting darts: co-evolution and counter-adaptation in hermaphroditic snails.

  PMID 15799778 · PMC1080126 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Dart shooting introduces an allohormone that inhibits digestion of donated sperm, increasing the amount reaching the spermathecae and fertilizing eggs, thereby manipulating the mating partner's sperm storage.

  dart-possessing same land cantareus 28s shimodaira-hasegawa principal

• Metatranscriptomics of the human oral microbiome during health and disease.

  PMID 24692635 · PMC3977359 · mBio · 2014 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Disease-associated periodontal communities display conserved community-level metabolic gene expression profiles between patients, whereas the metabolic gene expression of individual species is highly variable between patients.

  patient-matched subset health rna-seq rrna comparison metatranscriptomics