Bacteria influence eukaryotic biology as parasitic, commensal or beneficial symbionts. Aside
from these organismal interactions, bacteria have also been important sources of new …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of genetic material across branches of the
tree of life, is well established in prokaryotes and uncontroversial. This is explained in part …

The MUMmer system and the genome sequence aligner nucmer included within it are
among the most widely used alignment packages in genomics. Since the last major release …

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that survive a remarkable array of stresses, including
desiccation. How tardigrades survive desiccation has remained a mystery for more than 250 …

Tardigrades, also known as water bears, are small aquatic animals. Some tardigrade
species tolerate almost complete dehydration and exhibit extraordinary tolerance to various …

Abstract Background The whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is among the
100 worst invasive species in the world. As one of the most important crop pests and virus …

The decreasing cost of sequencing and concomitant augmentation of publicly available
genomes have created an acute need for automated software to assess genomic …

Flexibility in the exchange of genetic material takes place between different organisms of the
same or different species. This phenomenon is known to play a key role in the genetic …

Genomes are an integral component of the biological information about an organism; thus,
the more complete the genome, the more informative it is. Historically, bacterial and …

Animals are grouped into~ 35 'phyla'based upon the notion of distinct body plans,,,.
Morphological and molecular analyses have revealed that a stage in the middle of …