October 2019 archive

The New Tree of Eukaryotes.

Related Articles The New Tree of Eukaryotes. Trends Ecol Evol. 2019 Oct 09;: Authors: Burki F, Roger AJ, Brown MW, Simpson AGB Abstract For 15 years, the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) has been divided into five to eight major groupings, known as ‘supergroups’. However, the tree has been profoundly rearranged during this time. The …

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Solute carriers in scallop genome: Gene expansion and expression regulation after exposure to toxic dinoflagellate.

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Chemosphere. 2019 Sep 25;241:124968
Authors: Xun X, Cheng J, Wang J, Li Y, Li X, L…

Tropicibacter alexandrii sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium isolated from the phycosphere of a dinoflagellate, Alexandrium minutum.

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Evolution: New Protist Predators under the Sun.

Related Articles Evolution: New Protist Predators under the Sun. Curr Biol. 2019 Oct 07;29(19):R936-R938 Authors: Colp MJ, Archibald JM Abstract A lineage of predatory, non-photosynthetic protists related to red algae has been discovered, changing the way we think about the biology of the first photosynthetic eukaryotes. PMID: 31593671 [PubMed – in process]

A single-cell genome reveals diplonemid-like ancestry of kinetoplastid mitochondrial gene structure.

Related Articles A single-cell genome reveals diplonemid-like ancestry of kinetoplastid mitochondrial gene structure. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Nov 25;374(1786):20190100 Authors: Wideman JG, Lax G, Leonard G, Milner DS, Rodríguez-Martínez R, Simpson AGB, Richards TA Abstract Euglenozoa comprises euglenids, kinetoplastids, and diplonemids, with each group exhibiting different and highly unusual mitochondrial …

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Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi.

Related Articles Combined cultivation and single-cell approaches to the phylogenomics of nucleariid amoebae, close relatives of fungi. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2019 Nov 25;374(1786):20190094 Authors: Galindo LJ, Torruella G, Moreira D, Eglit Y, Simpson AGB, Völcker E, Clauß S, López-García P Abstract Nucleariid amoebae (Opisthokonta) have been known since the nineteenth …

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Neutral evolution of cellular phenotypes.

Neutral evolution of cellular phenotypes. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2019 Sep 28;58-59:87-94 Authors: Wideman JG, Novick A, Muñoz-Gómez SA, Doolittle WF Abstract Eukaryotes exhibit a great diversity of cellular and subcellular morphologies, but their basic underlying architecture is fairly constant. All have a nucleus, Golgi, cytoskeleton, plasma membrane, vesicles, ribosomes, and all known lineages but …

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