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Loss of Plastid Developmental Genes Coincides With a Reversion to Monoplastidy in Hornworts
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 The first plastid evolved from an endosymbiotic cyanobacterium in the common ancestor of the Archaeplastida. The transformative steps from cyanobacterium to organelle included the transfer of control over developmental processes, a necessity for the host
Alexander I. MacLeod +5 more
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THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF ACTIN [PDF]
Genetics, 1986 ABSTRACT We have investigated the molecular evolution of plant and nonplant actin genes comparing nucleotide and amino acid sequences of 20 actin genes. Nucleotide changes resulting in amino acid substitutions (replacement substitutions) ranged from 3-7% for all pairwise comparisons of animal actin genes with the following exceptions ...
R C, Hightower, R B, Meagher
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DNA Polymerases Engineered by Directed Evolution to Incorporate Nonstandard Nucleotides
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 DNA polymerases have evolved for billions of years to accept natural nucleoside triphosphate substrates with high fidelity and to exclude closely related structures, such as the analogous ribonucleoside triphosphates. However, polymerases that can accept
Roberto eLaos +2 more
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Major Changes in Plastid Protein Import and the Origin of the Chloroplastida
iScience, 2020 Summary: Core components of plastid protein import and the principle of using N-terminal targeting sequences are conserved across the Archaeplastida, but lineage-specific differences exist.
Michael Knopp +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 It has been demonstrated that the englacial ecosystem in volcanic environments is inhabited by active bacteria. To know whether this result could be extrapolated to other Antarctic glaciers and to study the populations of microeukaryotes in addition to ...
Eva García-Lopez +6 more
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Elusive data underlying debate at the prokaryote-eukaryote divide
Biology Direct, 2018 Background The origin of eukaryotic cells was an important transition in evolution. The factors underlying the origin and evolutionary success of the eukaryote lineage are still discussed.
Marie Gerlitz +4 more
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Mitochondrial Evolution [PDF]
Life, 2021 The myth of a “typical” mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is a rock-hard belief in the field of genetics, at least for the animal kingdom [...]
Luchetti A., Plazzi F.
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Plastid origin: who, when and why?
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2014 The origin of plastids is best explained by endosymbiotic theory, which dates back to the early 1900s. Three lines of evidence based on protein import machineries and molecular phylogenies of eukaryote (host) and cyanobacterial (endosymbiont) genes point
Chuan Ku +5 more
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The future of molecular evolution [PDF]
The EMBO Reports, 2010 Antony Dean explores the past, present and future of evolutionary theory and our continuing efforts to explain biological patterns in terms of molecular processes and mechanisms.
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The legume-specific transcription factor E1 controls leaf morphology in soybean
BMC Plant Biology, 2021 Background The leaf is a determinate organ essential for photosynthesis, whose size and shape determine plant architecture and strongly affect agronomic traits. In soybean, the molecular mechanism of leaf development is not well understood. The flowering
Yongli Li +17 more
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