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… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … 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 …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The … and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could provide more insights … generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of  Dothideomycetes fungi. The  work appeared in …

… in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed … 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 …

… sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex chromosomes.  …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new … products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the … target was a family of proteins that appeared in plants and algae and contained a similar region —  a domain of unknown …

… array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers … studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in …