Myxococcus xanthus, like other myxobacteria, is a social bacterium that moves and feeds
cooperatively in predatory groups. On surfaces, rod-shaped vegetative cells move in search …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

Abstract tRNAscan-SE has been widely used for transfer RNA (tRNA) gene prediction for
over twenty years, developed just as the first genomes were decoded. With the massive …

Current sampling of genomic sequence data from eukaryotes is relatively poor, biased, and
inadequate to address important questions about their biology, evolution, and ecology; this …

Background Dinoflagellates are known for their capacity to form harmful blooms (eg," red
tides") and as symbiotic, photosynthetic partners for corals. These unicellular eukaryotes …

Oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) is the main source of energy in eukaryotic cells. This
process is performed by means of electron flow between four enzymes, of which three are …

For hazard assessment of NPs quantitative nanoecotoxicological data are required. The
objective of this review was to evaluate the currently existing literature data on toxicity (L (E) …

Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many
similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the …

Plastids (chloroplasts) have long been recognized to have originated by endosymbiosis of a
cyanobacterium, but their subsequent evolutionary history has proved complex because …

The discovery of a nonphotosynthetic plastid in malaria and other apicomplexan parasites
has sparked a contentious debate about its evolutionary origin. Molecular data have led to …