Evolutionary origin

Related Proteins Share a Common Evolutionary Origin... 

Watanabe, H., Nagoshi, T., and Inaba, H. (1993). Luminescence of a bacterial luciferase intermediate by reaction with H2O2 the evolutionary origin of luciferase and source of endogenous light emission. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1141 297-302. 

There can be little doubt that certain stresses have characteristic demographic consequences both for populations and for plant parts and it is also evident that, according to taxonomic and evolutionary history, species and genotypes may differ in their responses to the same stress. Thus, demographic study is often a useful preliminary to analysis of the causation and evolutionary origins of particular stress responses. However, some demographers go further and advocate long-term field observation as the only reliable way forward ... 

Comparisons of mtDNA sequences provide evidence about evolutionary origins of primates and other species. 

In the last 20 years, a new problem, the evolutionary origin of levels of organization, or evolutionary transition, has been added to those celebrated since Darwin (Buss, 1987). In their recent book, The Major Transitions in Evolution, Maynard Smith and Szathmary (1995, p. 6) identified what they considered to be eight major originations of new levels of organization (Table 11.1). For most of these, they claimed a common feature . .. entities that were capable of independent replication before the transition... 

The problem of evolutionary transition is to formulate a coherent theory that can explain these transitions and guide evaluation of empirical evidence for each. Part of this work involves describing units of evolution adequate to explain the evolutionary origin of new levels and not merely evolution at levels (Griesemer, 2000c). The key insight into the units problem afforded by consideration of evolutionary transition is that units of evolution themselves have an evolutionary history. Differently put, there is a temporal or processual dimension to the units problem as well as spatial and functional dimensions. Because the spatial and functional perspectives on units mentioned above were not articulated with the evolutionary transition problem in mind, they are not clearly suited to its theoretical solution. In particular, if a perspective assumes the existence of levels of organization or embeds assumptions about these products of evolution in their analysis of units, then it has assumed what is to be shown by a theory of evolutionary transition. 

Biological diversity, chemical mechanism, and the evolutionary origins of bioluminescent systems 14... 

After considering the evolutionary origins of the olfactory system and some basic principles of olfaction, this brief review examines one of the most extensively studied examples of neural processing of semiochemical information the sex pheromone-specific olfactory subsystem in male moths. This male-specific subsystem can be viewed as representing an exaggeration of organizational principles and functional mechanisms that are characteristic of olfactory systems in general. 

Ikeo, K., Takahashi, K., and Gojobori, T., Evolutionary origin of numerous kringles in human and simian apolipoprotein(a). FEBS Lett. 287, 146-148 (1991). 

Byrne, R. (1995). The Thinking Ape Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 

Evolutionary Origin of the Activation Step During Ubiquitin-dependent Protein Degradation... 

Bui ETN, Bradley PJ, Johnson PJ. 1996. A common evolutionary origin for mitochondria and hydrogenosomes. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 93 9651-6. 

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