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Addition to Sweden’s freshwater sponge fauna and a phylogeographic study of Spongilla lacustris (Spongillida, Porifera) in southern Sweden by Robert, Chloé, Pereira, Raquel, Thollesson, Mikael

“…Freshwater sponges constitute an overlooked part of the freshwater fauna in Sweden and there has been no recent systematic survey. Hitherto three species have…”
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Ribbon worm relationships: a phylogeny of the phylum Nemertea by Thollesson, Mikael, Norenburg, Jon L.

“…) form a monophyletic group, and we introduce the name Neonemertea to refer to this group. Palaeonemertea is found to be non–monophyletic and basal among…”
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A phylometagenomic exploration of oceanic alphaproteobacteria reveals mitochondrial relatives unrelated to the SAR11 clade by Brindefalk, Björn, Ettema, Thijs J G, Viklund, Johan, Thollesson, Mikael, Andersson, Siv G E

“…According to the endosymbiont hypothesis, the mitochondrial system for aerobic respiration was derived from an ancestral Alphaproteobacterium. Phylogenetic…”
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Phylogeny and species delimitation in Silene sect. Arenosae (Caryophyllaceae): a new section by Eggens, Frida, Jafari, Farzaneh, Thollesson, Mikael, Crameri, Simon, Zarre, Shahin, Oxelman, Bengt

“…A putatively monophyletic group of annual Silene species is revised taxonomically and described as the new section S. sect. Arenosae. The species of this…”
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Origin and Evolution of the Mitochondrial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases by Brindefalk, Björn, Viklund, Johan, Larsson, Daniel, Thollesson, Mikael, Andersson, Siv G. E.

“…Many theories favor a fusion of 2 prokaryotic genomes for the origin of the Eukaryotes, but there are disagreements on the origin, timing, and cellular…”
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SPRIT: Identifying horizontal gene transfer in rooted phylogenetic trees by Hill, Tobias, Nordström, Karl J V, Thollesson, Mikael, Säfström, Tommy M, Vernersson, Andreas K E, Fredriksson, Robert, Schiöth, Helgi B

“…Phylogenetic trees based on sequences from a set of taxa can be incongruent due to horizontal gene transfer (HGT). By identifying the HGT events, we can…”
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Functional divergence and horizontal transfer of type IV secretion systems by Frank, A Carolin, Alsmark, Cecilia M, Thollesson, Mikael, Andersson, Siv G E

“…The type IV secretion system (TFSSs) is a multifunctional family of translocation pathways that mediate the transfer of DNA among bacteria and deliver DNA and…”
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Mosaic structure of intragenic repetitive elements in histone H1-like protein Hc2 varies within serovars of Chlamydia trachomatis by Klint, Markus, Thollesson, Mikael, Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik, Birkelund, Svend, Nilsson, Anders, Herrmann, Björn

“…The histone-like protein Hc2 binds DNA in Chlamydia trachomatis and is known to vary in size between 165 and 237 amino acids, which is caused by different…”
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Phylogenetic analysis of Euthyneura (Gastropoda) by means of the 16S rRNA gene: use of a ‘fast’gene for ‘higher–level’ phylogenies by Thollesson, Mikael

“…) as sister group, while the fourth nudibranch taxon, Doridoidea, forms a separate clade; (iv) Cephalaspidea…”
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Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region by Cárdenas, Paco, Rapp, Hans Tore, Klitgaard, Anne Birgitte, Best, Megan, Thollesson, Mikael, Tendal, Ole Secher

“…Geodia species north of 60°N in the Atlantic appeared in the literature for the first time when Bowerbank described Geodia barretti and G. macandrewii in 1858…”
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Moments of inertia of bat wings and body by THOLLESSON, M, NORBERG, U. M

“…The moments of inertia of the wings about the shoulder joint and about the roll axis were estimated in eight species of bats, using strip analysis. The moment…”
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LDDist: a Perl module for calculating LogDet pair-wise distances for protein and nucleotide sequences by THOLLESSON, Mikael

“…LDDist is a Perl module implemented in C++ that allows the user to calculate LogDet pair-wise genetic distances for amino acid as well as nucleotide sequence…”
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Bilaterian phylogeny based on analyses of a region of the sodium-potassium ATPase alpha-subunit gene by Anderson, Frank E., Córdoba, Alonso J., Thollesson, Mikael

“…Molecular investigations of deep-level relationships within and among the animal phyla have been hampered by a lack of slowly evolving genes that are amenable…”
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Taxonomic revision of Atocion and Viscaria (Sileneae, Caryophyllaceae) by Frajman, Božo, Thollesson, Mikael, Oxelman, Bengt

“…A species‐level taxonomic revision of Atocion and Viscaria, based on a recent phylogenetic study, is presented. Atocion includes six species (A. armeria, A…”
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Increasing Fidelity in Parsimony Analysis of Dorid Nudibranchs by Differential Weighting, or A Tale of Two Genes by Thollesson, Mikael

“…Phylogenetic analyses of 22 dorid nudibranch species and 2 outgroup (dendronotacean and notaspidean) species were performed using sequences from two different…”
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Differentiation and Phylogenetic Relationships in Mycobacterium spp with Special Reference to the RNase P RNA Gene rnpB by Herrmann, Björn, Stolt, Pelle, Abdeldaim, Guma, Rubin, Carl-Johan, Kirsebom, Leif A, Thollesson, Mikael

“…The rnpB gene encodes for the RNA subunit of the catalytic ribonuclease RNase P and is present in all bacteria and has both conserved and highly variable…”
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Taxonomy, biogeography and DNA barcodes of Geodia species (Porifera, Demospongiae, Tetractinellida) in the Atlantic boreo-arctic region: Revision of Atlantic boreo-arctic Geodia by Cárdenas, Paco, Rapp, Hans Tore, Klitgaard, Anne Birgitte, Best, Megan, Thollesson, Mikael, Tendal, Ole Secher

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Phylogenetic Analysis of Euthyneura (Gastropoda) by means of the 16S rRNA Gene: Use of a 'Fast' Gene for 'Higher-Level' Phylogenies by Thollesson, Mikael

“…The phylogeny of Euthyneura is analysed by using DNA sequences of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene. Despite the common notion that this gene is too variable to…”
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Phylogenetic relationships and genotyping of the genus Streptococcus by sequence determination of the RNase P RNA gene, rnpB by Tapp, Jenny, Thollesson, Mikael, Herrmann, Bjorn

“…1 Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Molecular Evolution, EBC, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen…”
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Diversifying Selection and Concerted Evolution of a Type IV Secretion System in Bartonella by Nystedt, Björn, Frank, A. Carolin, Thollesson, Mikael, Andersson, Siv G. E.

“…We have studied the evolution of a type IV secretion system (T4SS), in Bartonella, which is thought to have changed function from conjugation to erythrocyte…”
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