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Indeed, across multiple eukaryotic lineages, species that have flagella tend to have more conserved types of tubulin than species without tails, Kennard found. “The results clearly show what happens ...

This achievement represents the completion of the global Sc2.0 project to create the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) and a new-to ...

Existence of cilia in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) raises a fundamental question in biology ... Male mice lacking either XAP5 or XAP5L display infertility, as a result of meiotic ...

NASA iCOOL (Center for the Integration of the Origins of Life) and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States Institute of ...

Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium that colonizes the gastric mucus overlying the epithelium of the stomach in more than 50% of the world’s population. This ...

10 Surface appendages like pili, also known as fimbriae, aid in attachment and genetic exchange, while flagella enable movement, allowing prokaryotes to seek ... Prokaryotes have ribosomes but they ...

2 Endosymbiotic events are believed to have led to the development of membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria. Thanks to mitochondria, eukaryotic ancestors had enough energy to develop into the ...

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The gene products delivered by plasmids could be peptides, proteins, short hairpin RNAs and long non-coding RNAs. Both prokaryotic plasmids and eukaryotic plasmids can be delivered by bacteria, but ...

Leishmaniasis is one of the most important neglected tropical diseases, with more than two million new cases annually. It is endemic in several regions worldwide, representing a public health problem ...