Evolution: Heterochromatin Diversity in Early-Branching Land Plants
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.044
Abstract: Chromatin profiling of a liverwort genome reveals an epigenomic landscape where the major mark of developmental silencing in later-branching land plants and in animals also targets subsets of transposons in this early-branching land plant lineage. read more here.
Keywords: branching land; land plants; evolution heterochromatin; heterochromatin diversity ... See more keywords
Cryo-EM structure of the RC-LH core complex from an early branching photosynthetic prokaryote
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03881-x
Abstract: Photosynthetic prokaryotes evolved diverse light-harvesting (LH) antennas to absorb sunlight and transfer energy to reaction centers (RC). The filamentous anoxygenic phototrophs (FAPs) are important early branching photosynthetic bacteria in understanding the origin and evolution of… read more here.
Keywords: cryo structure; structure; branching photosynthetic; early branching ... See more keywords
Molecular mechanisms of sperm motility are conserved in an early-branching metazoan.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109993118
Abstract: Efficient and targeted sperm motility is essential for animal reproductive success. Sperm from mammals and echinoderms utilize a highly conserved signaling mechanism in which sperm motility is stimulated by pH-dependent activation of the cAMP-producing enzyme… read more here.
Keywords: sperm motility; physiology; motility; early branching ... See more keywords
Expanding the genetic toolkit helps dissect a global stress response in the early-branching species Fusobacterium nucleatum
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201460119
Abstract: Significance Fusobacterium nucleatum is an abundant member of the oral microbiome that can spread throughout the body and colonize secondary sites, including cancer tissues, where it promotes tumor progression. Understanding how F. nucleatum adapts to… read more here.
Keywords: expanding genetic; early branching; stress response; fusobacterium nucleatum ... See more keywords
Structure and evolution of photosystem I in the early-branching cyanobacterium Anthocerotibacter panamensis
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2427090122
Abstract: Significance Photosystem I (PSI) is a light-driven oxidoreductase protein complex essential to all oxygenic phototrophs. While PSI typically resides in thylakoid membranes, early-branching cyanobacteria without thylakoids localize PSI in the cytoplasmic membrane, making these organisms… read more here.
Keywords: cyanobacterium; evolution; early branching; panamensis ... See more keywords
Utilization of Cobalamin Is Ubiquitous in Early-Branching Fungal Phyla
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DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab043
Abstract: Abstract Cobalamin is a cofactor present in essential metabolic pathways in animals and one of the water-soluble vitamins. It is a complex compound synthesized solely by prokaryotes. Cobalamin dependence is scattered across the tree of… read more here.
Keywords: cobalamin ubiquitous; utilization cobalamin; branching fungal; cobalamin ... See more keywords
Early branching arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Paraglomus occultum carries a small and repeat-poor genome compared to relatives in the Glomeromycotina.
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DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000810
Abstract: The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMFs) are obligate root symbionts in the subphylum Glomeromycotina that can benefit land plants by increasing their soil nutrient uptake in exchange for photosynthetically fixed carbon sources. To date, annotated genome… read more here.
Keywords: paraglomus occultum; genome; early branching; arbuscular mycorrhizal ... See more keywords
New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages.
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DOI: 10.1111/joa.70045
Abstract: Within Avemetatarsalia, postcranial skeletal pneumaticity (PSP) occurs in pterosaurs, as well as theropod (including extant Aves) and sauropod dinosaurs. However, the evolutionary origins of PSP in the latter clade remain largely unknown, with few studies… read more here.
Keywords: neural arches; early branching; late triassic; vertebrae ... See more keywords
Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Mechanism of Early Branching of Balsa (Ochroma lagopus Swartz)
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DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70509
Abstract: Balsa (Ochroma lagopus Swartz), the world's lightest wood and a crucial material in wind turbine blades, holds significant potential to contribute to carbon neutrality efforts when cultivated in tropical areas such as Xishuangbanna, China. However,… read more here.
Keywords: ochroma lagopus; early branching; balsa ochroma; lagopus swartz ... See more keywords
Intracellular silicification by early-branching magnetotactic bacteria
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn6045
Abstract: Biosilicification—the formation of biological structures composed of silica—has a wide distribution among eukaryotes; it plays a major role in global biogeochemical cycles, and has driven the decline of dissolved silicon in the oceans through geological… read more here.
Keywords: silicification; early branching; magnetotactic bacteria; intracellular silicification ... See more keywords
Abstract A040: Multi-site sequencing of lethal prostate cancer reveals metastatic dissemination by independent and early-branching clones
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DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.prca2023-a040
Abstract: Primary prostate cancer (PCa) is frequently multifocal (genetically independent(GI) clones) and is further characterized by extensive intratumoral heterogeneity (genetically related clones). In metastatic castrate resistant PCa (mCRPC) monoclonal and polyclonal seeding of metastatic sites by… read more here.
Keywords: prostate cancer; metastatic dissemination; early branching; metastatic sites ... See more keywords