Claudio Slamovits
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Sep 04
Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP.
Related Articles Barthelonids represent a deep-branching metamonad clade with mitochondrion-related organelles predicted to generate no ATP. Proc Biol Sci. 2020 Sep 09;287(1934):20201538 Authors: Yazaki E, Kume K, Shiratori T, Eglit Y, Tanifuji G, Harada R, Simpson AGB, Ishida KI, Hashimoto T, Inagaki Y Abstract We here report the phylogenetic position of barthelonids, small anaerobic flagellates …
Sep 01
Respiratory and desiccation constraints during encapsulated intertidal development of the marine gastropod Acanthina monodon.
Related Articles Respiratory and desiccation constraints during encapsulated intertidal development of the marine gastropod Acanthina monodon. Mar Environ Res. 2020 Aug 20;161:105120 Authors: Chaparro OR, Salas-Yanquin LP, Büchner-Miranda JA, Pechenik JA, Gray MW, Navarro JM, Cubillos VM Abstract Acanthina monodon commonly deposits its egg capsules in the intertidal zone. Capsule aerial exposure during low-tide can …
Aug 24
Lateral Gene Transfer Mechanisms and Pan-genomes in Eukaryotes.
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 …
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
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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 …
Jul 29
STAGdb: a 30K SNP genotyping array and Science Gateway for Acropora corals and their dinoflagellate symbionts.
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STAGdb: a 30K SNP genotyping array and Science Gateway for Acropora corals and their dinoflagellate symbionts.
Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 27;10(1):12488
Authors: Kitchen SA, Von Kuster G, Kuntz KLV, Reich HG…
Jul 29
STAGdb: a 30K SNP genotyping array and Science Gateway for Acropora corals and their dinoflagellate symbionts
Standardized identification of genotypes is necessary in animals that reproduce asexually and form large clonal populations such as coral. We developed a high-resolution hybridization-based genotype array coupled with an analysis workflow and database for the most speciose genus of coral, Acropora, and their symbionts. We designed the array to co-analyze host and symbionts based on bi-allelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) markers identified from genomic data of the two Caribbean Acropora…
Jul 07
SAGER: a database of Symbiodiniaceae and Algal Genomic Resource.
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SAGER: a database of Symbiodiniaceae and Algal Genomic Resource.
Database (Oxford). 2020 Jan 01;2020:
Authors: Yu L, Li T, Li L, Lin X, Li H, Liu C, Guo C, Lin S
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Symbiodini…
Jul 05
SAGER: a database of Symbiodiniaceae and Algal Genomic Resource
Symbiodiniaceae dinoflagellates are essential endosymbionts of reef building corals and some other invertebrates. Information of their genome structure and function is critical for understanding coral symbiosis and bleaching. With the rapid development of sequencing technology, genome draft assemblies of several Symbiodiniaceae species and diverse marine algal genomes have become publicly available but spread in multiple separate locations. Here, we present a Symbiodiniaceae and Algal Genomic…