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How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean?

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How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean?
PLoS Biol. 2011 Aug;9(8):e1001127
Authors: Mora C, Tittensor DP, Adl S, Simpson AG, Worm B
Abstract
The diversity of life is one of the …

Recombination detection under evolutionary scenarios relevant to functional divergence.

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Recombination detection under evolutionary scenarios relevant to functional divergence.
J Mol Evol. 2011 Dec;73(5-6):273-86
Authors: Bay RA, Bielawski JP
Abstract
Recombination can negatively…

Evolving a photosynthetic organelle.

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Evolving a photosynthetic organelle.
BMC Biol. 2012;10:35
Authors: Nakayama T, Archibald JM
Abstract
The evolution of plastids from cyanobacteria is believed to represent a singularity in th…

Molecular genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii from Central and South America revealed high diversity within and between populations.

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Molecular genotyping of Toxoplasma gondii from Central and South America revealed high diversity within and between populations.
Infect Genet Evol. 2012 Mar;12(2):359-68
Authors: Rajendran C, Su C, Dubey JP

Corrigendum: A bacterial proteorhodopsin proton pump in marine eukaryotes.

Corrigendum: A bacterial proteorhodopsin proton pump in marine eukaryotes.
Nat Commun. 2012;3:822
Authors: Slamovits CH, Okamoto N, Burri L, James ER, Keeling PJ
PMID: 22617284 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

Protist Genomics, new open access journal

PROTIST GENOMICS is a brand new open-access journal entirely dedicated to publishing research, news and review articles in the fiel of genomics of microbial eukaryotes. PG represents a much-needed option for many researchers who had to opt for either a general protistology, general genomics or molecular evolution journal to submit their work. This often results …

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Postdoctoral fellowships in the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona

Deadline extended to March 30th, 2012.  Programme description The INTERPOD program has been created to provide highly talented young postdocs with the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research at one of the first-class research centers in Europe, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG). The aim of the program is to nourish the potential of selected …

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International Course in Automated Functional Annotation and Data Mining

Blast2Go is organizing courses on automated functional annotation – Go here for info and registration Cost reduction in sequencing technologies is resulting in a growing number of laboratories getting involved in genome sequencing projects where a large amount of sequencing data is generated. After assembly, a large amount of unique sequences are obtained which need …

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What's up with microbes?

Read about microbes and our work in the Winter issue of REACH, CIFAR’s publication about the exciting research being done by Program members.   

Two PhD-studentships in Exeter, UK

A competition for two PhD studentships opened in the lab of Dr Mark van der Giezen, Exeter. 1- Modelling early eukaryotic evolution using biogeochemical data – a systems approach Supervisors: Dr. Mark van der Giezen (Biosciences) & Prof. Tim Lenton (Geography) Information and application – click here 2- An evolutionary fluke resulting in novel and safe drugs …

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