Motivation Scientists increasingly rely on intelligent information systems to help them in their
daily tasks, in particular for managing research objects, like publications or datasets. The …

Vascular peroxidase 1 (VPO1) is a recently identified novel family member of peroxidases in
cardiovascular system. As an enzyme that is downstream of NADPH oxidases (NOX), VPO1 …

Many microbes in complex competitive environments share genes for acquiring and utilising
nutrients, questioning whether niche specialisation exists and if so, how it is maintained. We …

Thaumatin-like protein (TLP) is one of pathogenesis-related protein family, which plays an
important role in plant defense system. While its origin and expansion is unknown in plants …

Intramolecular disulfide bond formation is promoted in oxidizing extracellular and
endoplasmic reticulum compartments and often contributes to protein stability and function …

We examined lens and brille transmittance, photoreceptors, visual pigments, and visual
opsin gene sequences of viperid snakes with and without infrared-sensing pit organs …

Background Placental mammals display a huge range of life history traits, including size,
longevity, metabolic rate and germ line generation time. Although a number of general …

It has been proposed that positive selection may be associated with protein functional
change. For example, human and macaque have different outcomes to HIV infection and it …

Background Large-scale molecular evolutionary analyses of protein coding sequences
requires a number of preparatory inter-related steps from finding gene families, to …

Background Clostridium difficile is a nosocomial pathogen prevalent in hospitals worldwide
and increasingly common in the community. Sequence differences have been shown to be …