It has long been thought that an organism’s DNA provides clues only about its ancestry and how the various forms of life on Earth are related – the more similar […]
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Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Nomenclature, Systematics, Natural History, Status Report
Environment And Taxonomy Shape The Genomic Signature Of Prokaryotic Extremophiles
This study provides comprehensive quantitative evidence suggesting that adaptations to extreme temperatures and pH imprint a discernible environmental component in the genomic signature of microbial extremophiles.
Posted inBiophysics, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Origin & Evolution of Life, Status Report
Physical Constraints During Snowball Earth Drive The Evolution Of Multicellularity
Molecular and fossil evidence suggest that complex eukaryotic multicellularity evolved during the late Neoproterozoic era, coincident with Snowball Earth glaciations, where ice sheets covered most of the globe.
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Plant Biology, Press Release
Uncovering An Evolutionary Process That Enabled Diversity Of Plant Life On Earth
About 1.2 billion years ago a blue-green bacterium was engulfed by a more complex cell, transforming our planet and allowing a tremendous diversity of plant life to emerge and continue […]
Posted inFossils & Paleontology, Microbiology & Virology, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Discovery Of New Types of Microfossils May Answer An Age-old Scientific Question
Scientists have long pondered how and when the evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes occurred. A collaborative research team from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo may have provided some […]