After assembling the genome of an organism, it is standard practice to annotate the contents of that genome by comparing it to a library of known sequences. When the organism is evolutionarily distant from other sequenced genomes, as is common in the context of environmental metagenomic samples, ...
Various pesticides including organochlorines, organophosphates, carbamate, pyrethroids, chloronicotinyl etc., are used in agriculture for protection against plant diseases and insects. Only a fraction of the applied pesticides is utilized in killing of t
The understanding of this encoding can help with the development of an artificial organism, for example an autonomous robotic system; whereby the robot will have the ability to autonomously regulate the switching between the opposing behaviours using this encoded mechanism, in order to ensure its ...
Here, we do not use the term “immortal” to refer to an organism that exists in the environment for a continuous period of time. Instead, we use it in a sense of “biological immortality”, meaning that the probability of death does not increase with the age. The baseline mortality may...
These data help to distinguish between trends that are representative or not in the following sections. Table 3. Main characteristics of Xyl-11 of known sequences. OrganismaXylanase namebUniProt IDcMWd (Da)Additional domainepIpHoptTopt (°C)Residual activity or thermostabilityReferences Acrophialop...
OrganismTotal sequence length (bp)Date of submissionReference Halomonas elongata DSM 2581 4,061,296 20-MAY-2010 Schwibbert et al. (2011) Halomonas sp. TD01 4,091,699 20-JUN-2011 Cai et al. (2011) Halomonas sp. HAL1 4,351,324 07-OCT-2011 Lin et al. (2012) Halomonas boliviensis LC1...
Metatranscriptomics generates large volumes of sequence data about transcribed genes in natural environments. Taxonomic annotation of these datasets depends on availability of curated reference sequences. For marine microbial eukaryotes, current reference libraries are limited by gaps in sequenced organism diver...
tuberculosis genomes by BLASTP comparisons between all predicted ORFs within each organism, we found that the P. aeruginosa genome has signi®cantly more distinct gene families (paralogous groups) than the other large bacterial genomes (see Supplementary Infor- mation). There are nearly 50% more...
organism, with nephron enlargement and increased tubule length [45,50,57,58]. Genetic mutations or adverse environmental factors (e.g., poor diet during gestation, gestational diabetes, drug use, etc.), can affect nephron number and function, contributing to kidney-related diseases later in life...
Because genes are intimately linked to the entire character of an organism, its form and its function, it follows that variations in the chromosome makeup or number should provide some information about the relation, and possibly even evolution, of animals. There are two basic types of cells ...