Lateral Gene Transfer Mechanisms and Pan-genomes in Eukaryotes. Trends Parasitol. 2020 Aug 19;: Authors: Sibbald SJ, Eme L, Archibald JM, Roger AJ Abstract Lateral gene transfer (LGT) is well known as an important driver of genome evolution in bacteria and archaea, but its importance in eukaryote evolution has yet to be fully elucidated. There is …
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Aug 12
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses.
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020 Sep 28;375(1808):20190591
Authors: van Oppen MJH, Medina M
Abstract
This review explores how microbial s…
Aug 11
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses
This review explores how microbial symbioses may have influenced and continue to influence the evolution of reef-building corals (Cnidaria; Scleractinia). The coral holobiont comprises a diverse microbiome including dinoflagellate algae (Dinophyceae; Symbiodiniaceae), bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses, but here we focus on the Symbiodiniaceae as knowledge of the impact of other microbial symbionts on coral evolution is scant. Symbiosis with Symbiodiniaceae has extended the coral’s metabolic…
Aug 06
Could this pandemic usher in evolution’s next major transition?
Related Articles Could this pandemic usher in evolution’s next major transition? Curr Biol. 2020 Aug 03;30(15):R846-R848 Authors: Doolittle WF Abstract Much discussion about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and whatever emerges as the ‘new normal’ has been psychological or political in nature, but there is a more inclusive evolutionary biological context in which we …
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