Leonardo da Vinci, was the first person to recognize their importance and said they were either remains of organisms of their impressions on some sort of clay or rock.
Despite the importance of horizontal gene transfer for rapid bacterial evolution, reliable assignment of mobile genetic elements to their microbial hosts in natural communities such as the human gut microbiota is lacking. We used high-throughput chromosomal conformation capture coupled with probabilistic mod...
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The class Myxozoa (Grassé, 1970) comprises over 2,400 species of endoparasitic cnidarians. The life cycle of myxozoans involves two hosts, usually a fish and an annelid [1]. Previous phylogenomic analyses of protein coding genes and mitochondrial (mt) genome structure have strongly supported th...
In addition, the majority of begomovirus-betasatellite complexes associate with a further class of ssDNA components for which the name alphasatellites has been proposed (formerly referred to as DNA 1; Briddon et al., manuscript in preparation). These are described as satellite-like (due to the ...
Teleosts constitute more than 99 % of living actinopterygian fishes and fossil teleosts have been studied for about two centuries. However, a general consensus on the definition of Teleostei and the relationships among the major teleostean clades ha
This class of proteins includes an ubiquitous and very interesting group, referred to as the RND (Resistance-Nodulation-Cell-Division) superfamily, that is mainly involved in drug resistance of Gram-negative bacteria [11, 12]. Functionally characterized members of this superfamily fall into eight dif...
Notes sur Micrauchenus lineola (Fabricius 1787), espèce termitophile et termitophage (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae, Apiomerini). Ann. la Soc. Entomol. Fr. 45, 129–133 (2009). Article Google Scholar McMahan, E. A. Adaptations, feeding preferences, and biometrics of a termite...
Such a function-oriented, rather than gene-centric, view of biological mechanisms abstracts general function from individual molecules and is therefore likely to ultimately facilitate the reverse engineering of biology. Data Availability The S. mediterranea genome assembly is accessible at GenBank under ...
[9] isolated multiple copies of feather β-keratins from eight orders of the class aves, but they were unable to amplify sequences in the Passeriforme order, which makes up over fifty percent of all living birds. Phenotypically the chicken has a larger body size and longer life span than...