Search Results - "Thomas, Gavin H."

Global Distribution and Conservation of Evolutionary Distinctness in Birds by Jetz, Walter, Thomas, Gavin H., Joy, Jeffrey B., Redding, David W., Hartmann, Klaas, Mooers, Arne O.

“…Integrated, efficient, and global prioritization approaches are necessary to manage the ongoing loss of species and their associated function. “Evolutionary…”
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Sialic acid acquisition in bacteria-one substrate, many transporters by Thomas, Gavin H

“…The sialic acids are a family of 9-carbon sugar acids found predominantly on the cell-surface glycans of humans and other animals within the Deuterostomes and…”
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A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies by Cooper, Natalie, Thomas, Gavin H., Venditti, Chris, Meade, Andrew, Freckleton, Rob P.

“…Phylogenetic comparative methods are increasingly used to give new insights into the dynamics of trait evolution in deep time. For continuous traits the core…”
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Comprehensive identification of RNA–protein interactions in any organism using orthogonal organic phase separation (OOPS) by Queiroz, Rayner M. L., Smith, Tom, Villanueva, Eneko, Marti-Solano, Maria, Monti, Mie, Pizzinga, Mariavittoria, Mirea, Dan-Mircea, Ramakrishna, Manasa, Harvey, Robert F., Dezi, Veronica, Thomas, Gavin H., Willis, Anne E., Lilley, Kathryn S.

“…Existing high-throughput methods to identify RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are based on capture of polyadenylated RNAs and cannot recover proteins that interact…”
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Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds by Cooney, Christopher R., Bright, Jen A., Capp, Elliot J. R., Chira, Angela M., Hughes, Emma C., Moody, Christopher J. A., Nouri, Lara O., Varley, Zoë K., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…A study of more than 2,000 bird species shows that diversity in bill shape expands towards extreme morphologies early in avian evolution in a series of major…”
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Water Networks Can Determine the Affinity of Ligand Binding to Proteins by Darby, John F, Hopkins, Adam P, Shimizu, Seishi, Roberts, Shirley M, Brannigan, James A, Turkenburg, Johan P, Thomas, Gavin H, Hubbard, Roderick E, Fischer, Marcus

“…Solvent organization is a key but underexploited contributor to the thermodynamics of protein–ligand recognition, with implications for ligand discovery, drug…”
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The substrate-binding protein in bacterial ABC transporters: dissecting roles in the evolution of substrate specificity by Maqbool, Abbas, Horler, Richard S P, Muller, Axel, Wilkinson, Anthony J, Wilson, Keith S, Thomas, Gavin H

“…ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, although being ubiquitous in biology, often feature a subunit that is limited primarily to bacteria and archaea. This…”
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Sexual selection predicts the rate and direction of colour divergence in a large avian radiation by Cooney, Christopher R., Varley, Zoë K., Nouri, Lara O., Moody, Christopher J. A., Jardine, Michael D., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Sexual selection is proposed to be a powerful driver of phenotypic evolution in animal systems. At macroevolutionary scales, sexual selection can theoretically…”
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Using pose estimation to identify regions and points on natural history specimens by He, Yichen, Cooney, Christopher R, Maddock, Steve, Thomas, Gavin H

“…A key challenge in mobilising growing numbers of digitised biological specimens for scientific research is finding high-throughput methods to extract…”
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Sialic acid utilization by bacterial pathogens by Severi, Emmanuele, Hood, Derek W, Thomas, Gavin H

“…1 Department of Biology (Area 10), University of York, PO Box 373, York YO10 5YW, UK 2 Molecular Infectious Diseases Group, University of Oxford Department of…”
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Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades by Cooney, Christopher R., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Several theories predict that rates of phenotypic evolution should be related to the rate at which new lineages arise. However, drawing general conclusions…”
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Cross-validation of distance measurements in proteins by PELDOR/DEER and single-molecule FRET by Peter, Martin F., Gebhardt, Christian, Mächtel, Rebecca, Muñoz, Gabriel G. Moya, Glaenzer, Janin, Narducci, Alessandra, Thomas, Gavin H., Cordes, Thorben, Hagelueken, Gregor

“…Pulsed electron-electron double resonance spectroscopy (PELDOR/DEER) and single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer spectroscopy (smFRET) are frequently…”
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Conformational coupling of the sialic acid TRAP transporter HiSiaQM with its substrate binding protein HiSiaP by Peter, Martin F., Ruland, Jan A., Kim, Yeojin, Hendricks, Philipp, Schneberger, Niels, Siebrasse, Jan Peter, Thomas, Gavin H., Kubitscheck, Ulrich, Hagelueken, Gregor

“…The tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters use an extra cytoplasmic substrate binding protein (SBP) to transport a wide variety of…”
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Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations by Cooney, Christopher R., Sheard, Catherine, Clark, Andrew D., Healy, Susan D., Liker, András, Street, Sally E., Troisi, Camille A., Thomas, Gavin H., Székely, Tamás, Hemmings, Nicola, Wright, Alison E.

“…The duration of the developmental period represents a fundamental axis of life-history variation, yet broad insights regarding the drivers of this diversity…”
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Tripartite ATP-Independent Periplasmic (TRAP) Transporters and Tripartite Tricarboxylate Transporters (TTT): From Uptake to Pathogenicity by Rosa, Leonardo T, Bianconi, Matheus E, Thomas, Gavin H, Kelly, David J

“…The ability to efficiently scavenge nutrients in the host is essential for the viability of any pathogen. All catabolic pathways must begin with the transport…”
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Interrogation of RNA-protein interaction dynamics in bacterial growth by Monti, Mie, Herman, Reyme, Mancini, Leonardo, Capitanchik, Charlotte, Davey, Karen, Dawson, Charlotte S, Ule, Jernej, Thomas, Gavin H, Willis, Anne E, Lilley, Kathryn S, Villanueva, Eneko

“…Characterising RNA–protein interaction dynamics is fundamental to understand how bacteria respond to their environment. In this study, we have analysed the…”
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Phylogenetic distributions of British birds of conservation concern by Thomas, Gavin H

“…Recent studies suggest that species' life histories and ecology can be used to forecast future extinction risk. Threatened species often share similar traits…”
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Structural and mechanistic analysis of a tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic TRAP transporter by Peter, Martin F., Ruland, Jan A., Depping, Peer, Schneberger, Niels, Severi, Emmanuele, Moecking, Jonas, Gatterdam, Karl, Tindall, Sarah, Durand, Alexandre, Heinz, Veronika, Siebrasse, Jan Peter, Koenig, Paul-Albert, Geyer, Matthias, Ziegler, Christine, Kubitscheck, Ulrich, Thomas, Gavin H., Hagelueken, Gregor

“…Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic (TRAP) transporters are found widely in bacteria and archaea and consist of three structural domains, a soluble…”
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A simple polytomy resolver for dated phylogenies by Kuhn, Tyler S., Mooers, Arne Ø., Thomas, Gavin H.

“…Summary 1. Unresolved nodes in phylogenetic trees (polytomies) have long been recognized for their influences on specific phylogenetic metrics such as…”
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Land-Sparing Agriculture Best Protects Avian Phylogenetic Diversity by Edwards, David P., Gilroy, James J., Thomas, Gavin H., Uribe, Claudia A. Medina, Haugaasen, Torbjørn

“…The conversion of natural habitats to farmland is a major driver of the global extinction crisis [1, 2]. Two strategies are promoted to mitigate the impacts of…”
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