Advances in imaging techniques and high-throughput technologies are providing scientists
with unprecedented possibilities to visualize internal structures of cells, organs and …

Lateral genetic transfer (LGT) is a major source of phenotypic innovation among bacteria.
Determinants for antibiotic resistance and other adaptive traits can spread rapidly, particularly …

Despite the significance of haploinsufficiency in human disease, no systematic study has
been reported into the types of genes that are haploinsufficient in human, or into the …

Epidermal changes caused by a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiomycota; Chytridiales) were
found in sick and dead adult anurans collected from montane rain forests in Queensland (…

The genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 contains 2,992,245 bp on a
single chromosome and encodes 2,977 proteins and many RNAs. One-third of the encoded …

The extent to which lateral genetic transfer has shaped microbial genomes has major
implications for the emergence of community structures. We have performed a rigorous …

… Rooted phylogenetic trees can be represented as matrices in which the rows correspond
to termini, and columns correspond to internal nodes (elements of the n-tree). Parsimony …

Genome structure variation has profound impacts on phenotype in organisms ranging from
microbes to humans, yet little is known about how natural selection acts on genome …

Culture-independent molecular surveys of plant root microbiomes indicate that soil type
generally has a stronger influence on microbial communities than host phylogeny. However, …

The significance of whole-genome duplications (WGD) for vertebrate evolution remains
controversial, in part because the mechanisms by which WGD contributed to functional evolution …