Evolution without accidents
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Despite advances in molecular genetics, too many biologists think that natural selection is driven by random mutations - by…
Despite advances in molecular genetics, too many biologists think that natural selection is driven by random mutations - by…
As researchers race to cultivate these intriguing cells from the deep seafloor, the few growing in labs are our best glimpses…
Although, according to Yogi Berra, predictions about the future are particularly challenging, retrodiction is not much easier…
Laboratóriumi vizsgálatokkal kutatók feltárták az állatok, növények, gombák és számtalan egysejtű által alkotott eukarióta élőlén…
A closed Candidatus Odinarchaeum chromosome exposes Asgard archaeal viruses
Lab enrichment of Asgard archaea from deep-sea volcanic rocks revealed their unique biology, hinting at the ancient events…
Vous vous êtes peut-être déjà demandé où et quand était apparue l’espèce humaine. Qui de l’œuf ou de la poule était venu en…
por Piter Kehoma Boll Read it in…
by Piter Kehoma Boll And by “we all” I mean we, the eukaryotes, the organisms with complex cells with a nucleus…
So - I did a guest appearance in a UC Davis Microbiology class run by a colleague / friend of mine - Renee Tsolis and I thought…
The origin of the eukaryotic cell represents one of the most fundamental mysteries in the evolution of cellular life on Earth.
Our investigations of Earth processes shed light on processes taking place on other planets and moons. In turn, discoveries off…
I still believe in revolutions. And sometimes they just happen, almost unnoticed. One such revolution happened on a boring 11th…
כל היצורים המורכבים, בעלי גרעין תא, נוצרו ממ
STRANIMONDI – Slanciate torri dorate, architetture futuristiche, navi volanti e cannoni, questa è la Asgard cui ci ha abituato…
Figure modified from Darwin (1837), Haeckel (1866), Woese (1990), Hug et al., (2016), and Weiss et al., (2016) One persistent…
The following is one article in a series of dispatches from the E/V Nautilus. I served as a participating scientist on the…
Since we started cultivation-independent analysis of microbial DNA, there’s been an explosion in the number of phyla (or “candida…
by Marcia…
by Maureen O’Malley Figure 1. Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone. CC BY 2.0 Frank Kovalchek.
by Yina Cobián, Alan Du, Kanika Khanna, Neeraja Vegesna, Chunghoon Woo, and Asami…
Lokiarchaeum: el “eslabón perdido” entre procariotas y…
APPROFONDIMENTO – Da mesi fra i biologi è in corso un aspro dibattito sul cosiddetto “editing” della linea germinale, le…
Getting Out of ControlEver wonder who those peer reviewers are who approve of the non scientific evolution papers which claim…
While the general consensus has centered around the evolution of eukaryotes within the TACK superphylum of Archaea (Thaum-…
真核细胞与原核生物的差别是如此之大,以至于了解真核生物起源和祖先
Ya está disponible el audio del podcast de Eureka, mi sección en La Rosa de los Vientos de Onda Cero. Como siempre, una…
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The latest in a regular series of posts to biodiversity-related* items that have caught my attention during the week: One of…
A team of biologists, co-led by Dr Lionel Guy and Dr Thijs J. G. Ettema from Uppsala University in Sweden, has discovered a new…
Plants and…
Plants and…
Missing Link Microbes May Help Explain How Single Cells Became…
Near a field of deep sea vents between Norway and Greenland, scientists discovered the DNA of microbes that seem to be…
Eukaryotes—fungi, plants, us—are complex. Our large cells are characterized by their different compartments, many of which are…
Loki’s Castle lies midway between Greenland and Norway, around 2,300 metres below the ocean surface. It’s a field of…