Brandau, Lena Jacksch, Susanne Weis, Severin Schnell, Sylvia Egert, Markus
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Archives of Microbiology
Kitchen sponges are particularly well known to harbor a high number and diversity of bacteria, including pathogens. Viruses, archaea, and eukaryotes in kitchen sponges, however, have not been examined in detail so far. To increase knowledge on the non-bacterial kitchen sponge microbiota and its potential hygienic relevance, we investigated five use...
Blaxter, Mark Archibald, John M Childers, Anna K Coddington, Jonathan A Crandall, Keith A Di Palma, Federica Durbin, Richard Edwards, Scott V Graves, Jennifer AM Hackett, Kevin J
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Life on Earth has evolved from initial simplicity to the astounding complexity we experience today. Bacteria and archaea have largely excelled in metabolic diversification, but eukaryotes additionally display abundant morphological innovation. How have these innovations come about and what constraints are there on the origins of novelty and the con...
Merrick, Catherine Absalon, Sabrina Brochet, Mathieu Li, Ziyin Suvorova, Elena S
Editorial on the Research Topic Celebrating Microbial Diversity: The Many Cell Cycles of Eukaryotic Microbes / CM: ERC research grant ‘Plasmocycle’. ZL: NIH R01 grant AI101437. MB: Swiss National Science Foundation 31003A_179321.
Hogan, Deborah A. Heitman, Joseph Jabra-Rizk, Mary Ann. Knoll, Laura J. Leong, John M. Silverman, Neal S.
The human microbiome constitutes the collection of all the microorganisms living in association with the human body with each body site being home to a unique microbial community. Human-associated microbial communities can include eukaryotes, archaea, bacteria, and viruses and provide protection against foreign invaders, stimulate the immune respon...
formaggioni;, alessandro
Notwithstanding the initial claims of general conservation, mitochondrial genomes are a largely heterogeneous set of organellar chromosomes which displays a bewildering diversity in terms of structure, architecture, gene content, and functionality. The mitochondrial genome is typically described as a single chromosome, yet many examples of multipar...
Castañeda Londoño, Paula Andrea Banholzer, Nicole Bannermann, Bridget Kramer, Susanne
BACKGROUND: ApaH like phosphatases (ALPHs) originate from the bacterial ApaH protein and have been identified in all eukaryotic super-groups. Only two of these proteins have been functionally characterised. We have shown that the ApaH like phosphatase ALPH1 from the Kinetoplastid Trypanosoma brucei is the mRNA decapping enzyme of the parasite. In e...
Galipot, Pierre Damerval, Catherine Jabbour, Florian
The external tissues of numerous eukaryote species show repeated colour patterns, usually characterized by units that are present at least twice on the body. These dotted, striped or more complex phenotypes carry out crucial biological functions, such as partner recognition, aposematism or camouflage. Very diverse mechanisms explaining the formatio...
Lee, D.W. Hwang, I.
Organellogenesis, a key aspect of eukaryotic cell evolution, critically depends on the successful establishment of organellar protein import mechanisms. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the evolution of the two endosymbiotic organelles, the mitochondrion and the chloroplast, is thought to have occurred at time periods far from each other. Despit...
Ceja-Navarro, Javier A Wang, Yuan Ning, Daliang Arellano, Abelardo Ramanculova, Leila Yuan, Mengting Maggie Byer, Alyssa Craven, Kelly D Saha, Malay C Brodie, Eoin L
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BackgroundDespite their widespread distribution and ecological importance, protists remain one of the least understood components of the soil and rhizosphere microbiome. Knowledge of the roles that protists play in stimulating organic matter decomposition and shaping microbiome dynamics continues to grow, but there remains a need to understand the ...
Ryan, Dylan G Frezza, Christian O'Neill, Luke Aj
A major question remaining in the field of evolutionary biology is how prokaryotic organisms made the leap to complex eukaryotic life. The prevailing theory depicts the origin of eukaryotic cell complexity as emerging from the symbiosis between an α-proteobacterium, the ancestor of present-day mitochondria, and an archaeal host (endosymbiont theory...
