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A new family of diverse skin peptides from the microhylid frog genus phrynomantis [PDF]
, 2020 A wide range of frogs produce skin poisons composed of bioactive peptides for defence against pathogens, parasites and predators. While several frog families have been thoroughly screened for skin-secreted peptides, others, like the Microhylidae, have ...
Ballet, Steven +7 more
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke +4 more
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Common Ancestry Is a Poor Predictor of Competitive Traits in Freshwater Green Algae. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Phytoplankton species traits have been used to successfully predict the outcome of competition, but these traits are notoriously laborious to measure. If these traits display a phylogenetic signal, phylogenetic distance (PD) can be used as a proxy for ...
Anita Narwani +6 more
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Phylogenetic Signals in Protein Data
, 2021 Structural biology has seen major advances over the past decade. In the area of protein structure prediction we have seen significant increase in accuracy with the discovery of coevolutionary signals in a multiple sequence alignment (MSA). Unlike methods which fold proteins using molecular dynamic (MD) simulations, these coevolutionary methods make use
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Phylogenetic signal and functional categories in Proteobacteria genomes [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007 Abstract Background A comprehensive evolutionary analysis of bacterial genomes implies to identify the hallmark of vertical and non-vertical signals and to discriminate them from the presence of mere phylogenetic noise. In this report we have addressed the impact of factors like the universal distribution of the genes,
Comas, Iñaki +2 more
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Phylogenetic and physiological signals in metazoan fossil biomolecules [PDF]
Science Advances, 2020 Fossilization yields stable polymers diagnostic of tissue type, biomineralization, and the place of animals in the tree of life.
Jasmina Wiemann +2 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review explores how alternative invertebrate and small‐vertebrate models advance the evaluation of nanomaterials across medicine and environmental science. By bridging cellular and organismal levels, these models enable integrated assessment of toxicity, biodistribution, and therapeutic performance.
Marie Celine Lefevre +3 more
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A global test for phylogenetic signal in shifts in flowering time under climate change
, 2017 Shifts in the timing of flowering are a conspicuous biological signal of climate change. These shifts have been documented across the globe for diverse communities. Although many species are flowering earlier, others have exhibited no shifts or delays in
Nicole E. Rafferty, P. Nabity
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Gene tree reconciliation: new developments in Bayesian concordance analysis with BUCKy [PDF]
, 2010 When phylogenetic trees inferred from different genes are incongruent, several methods are available to reconcile gene trees and extract the shared phylogenetic information from the sequence data. Bayesian Concordance Analysis, implemented in BUCKy, aims
Bret R. Larget +3 more
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Metabolism And The Rise Of Fungus Cultivation By Ants [PDF]
, 2014 Most ant colonies are comprised of workers that cooperate to harvest resources and feed developing larvae. Around 50 million years ago (MYA), ants of the attine lineage adopted an alternative strategy, harvesting resources used as compost to produce ...
Kaspari, Michael +5 more
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