The genomic diversity of eukaryotic microorganisms has not yet been fully investigated but, as reviewed in this month's column, this is beginning to change. Our view of what a typical eukaryotic ...

For the first time ever, a synthetic eukaryotic genome has been created ... sustainable manufacturing processes that use eukaryotic bacteria more efficiently. While the concept of creating ...

Work in the Katz lab aims to elucidate principles of eukaryotic evolution through phylogenetic reconstruction, community sampling and analyses of genome evolution. The bulk of eukaryotic diversity is ...

In an email to The Scientist, Remus Dame at Leiden University, Netherlands, who was not involved in the study, says “it is a very interesting study as histone[s] are essentially undescribed in ...

Bacteria are amongst the simplest of organisms ... Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm ...

Amidst the dunes and barren mountains, there are pockets of life—warm, briny pools crusted over with colorful microbial mats of cyano-bacteria and archaea stacked atop one another ... some of the ...

Much of this defence is encoded in the part of the bacteria's genome that can easily be transferred between bacteria, the so-called mobilome. Such a transfer can mean that otherwise harmless ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the movement of genetic material from one organism to another. In this article, we will ...

Improving the genetic circuits in eukaryotic protein production systems—like human cell lines or Chinese hamster ovaries—has the potential to enhance their value so they may offer not only ...