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… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … main proponent of the significance of endosymbiosis in evolution of eukaryotes, and Saganbacteria were named for …
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A chromosome‐scale reference genome of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) provides insights into disease resistance, cold tolerance and genome evolution in Citrus
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Genome analysis of ‘Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae’, first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Bifidobacteriales, strengthens evidence for convergent evolution in flagellate endosymbionts
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Directed Evolution of Flavin-Dependent Halogenases for Site- and Atroposelective Halogenation of 3‑Aryl-4(3H)‑Quinazolinones via Kinetic or Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
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Dan Rokhsar
… directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … which they have applied and refined in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal … matter physics to computational biology, genomics and evolutionary biology. Dr. Rokhsar’s research is focused on …
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Plastome evolution in annual Brachypodium species reveals widespread heteroplasmy and chloroplast capture, lineage-specific codon usage bias, and low positive selection
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Natural Prodcast Episode 4: Nancy Keller
… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s “Natural Prodcast,” a podcast about the science and scientists of secondary metabolism.  DAN: Welcome back to Natural … understand that a little bit better, with some advances in evolution and cell biology. I’m interested in that. And we …
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Evolution of a multi‐step phosphorelay signal transduction system in Ensifer: recruitment of the sigma factor RpoN and a novel enhancer‐binding protein triggers acid‐activated gene expression
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s … By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the cellular level, scientists can better …
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Three Join the JGI User Executive Committee
… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB, where she leads a research group investigating the physiology and evolution of marine aggregates and biofilms. She credits the …
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Advances and challenges in understanding evolution through genome comparison: meeting report of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) lecture course “Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics”
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in … With the help of this information, the researchers found evolutionary relationships between methanogenesis, …
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