"Evolution, Molecular" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process of cumulative change at the level of DNA; RNA; and PROTEINS, over successive generations.
| Descriptor ID |
D019143
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.045.250 G16.075.250
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Evolution, Molecular" by people in this website by year, and whether "Evolution, Molecular" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1996 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 1997 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 1998 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 1999 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2000 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2001 | 11 | 15 | 26 |
| 2002 | 18 | 8 | 26 |
| 2003 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 2004 | 15 | 16 | 31 |
| 2005 | 28 | 8 | 36 |
| 2006 | 19 | 20 | 39 |
| 2007 | 18 | 7 | 25 |
| 2008 | 23 | 12 | 35 |
| 2009 | 25 | 12 | 37 |
| 2010 | 20 | 15 | 35 |
| 2011 | 19 | 27 | 46 |
| 2012 | 20 | 21 | 41 |
| 2013 | 18 | 17 | 35 |
| 2014 | 18 | 9 | 27 |
| 2015 | 16 | 13 | 29 |
| 2016 | 20 | 14 | 34 |
| 2017 | 18 | 10 | 28 |
| 2018 | 20 | 10 | 30 |
| 2019 | 13 | 14 | 27 |
| 2020 | 13 | 12 | 25 |
| 2021 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2022 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Evolution, Molecular" by people in Profiles.
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Contiguous and complete assemblies of Blastocystis gut microbiome-associated protists reveal evolutionary diversification to host ecology. Genome Res. 2025 Jun 02; 35(6):1377-1390.
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Robustness of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Among-site and Among-lineage Evolutionary Heterogeneity. Mol Biol Evol. 2025 Apr 01; 42(4).
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Evolutionarily new genes in humans with disease phenotypes reveal functional enrichment patterns shaped by adaptive innovation and sexual selection. Genome Res. 2025 Mar 18; 35(3):379-392.
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Subcellular Enrichment Patterns of New Genes in Drosophila Evolution. Mol Biol Evol. 2025 Feb 03; 42(2).
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Functional innovation through new genes as a general evolutionary process. Nat Genet. 2025 Feb; 57(2):295-309.
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Symmetry facilitated the evolution of heterospecificity and high-order stoichiometry in vertebrate hemoglobin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jan 28; 122(4):e2414756122.
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Subspecies phylogeny in the human gut revealed by co-evolutionary constraints across the bacterial kingdom. Cell Syst. 2025 Feb 19; 16(2):101167.
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Macroevolutionary inference of complex modes of chromosomal speciation in a cosmopolitan plant lineage. New Phytol. 2025 Mar; 245(5):2350-2361.
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The three-dimensional genome drives the evolution of asymmetric gene duplicates via enhancer capture-divergence. Sci Adv. 2024 Dec 20; 10(51):eadn6625.
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Frequent transitions in self-assembly across the evolution of a central metabolic enzyme. Nat Commun. 2024 12 03; 15(1):10515.