The symbiotic origin of the eukaryotic cell by López-García, Purificación, Moreira, David

“…However, the recent discovery by metagenomic and cultural approaches of Asgard archaea, which harbour many genes in common with eukaryotes and are their closest relatives in phylogenomic trees, rather supports scenarios based on the symbiosis of one Asgard-like archaeon and one or more bacteria at the origin of the eukaryotic cell. …”
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Short tandem repeats delineate gene bodies across eukaryotes by William B. Reinar, Anders K. Krabberød, Vilde O. Lalun, Melinka A. Butenko, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

“…Despite this, the distribution of STR motif repetitiveness in eukaryote genomes is still largely unknown. Here, we identify monomer and dimer STR motif repetitiveness in 5.1 billion 10-bp windows upstream of translation starts and downstream of translation stops in 25 million genes spanning 1270 species across the eukaryotic Tree of Life. …”
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Author Correction: Short tandem repeats delineate gene bodies across eukaryotes by William B. Reinar, Anders K. Krabberød, Vilde O. Lalun, Melinka A. Butenko, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

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Optimal Dual RNA-Seq Mapping for Accurate Pathogen Detection in Complex Eukaryotic Hosts by Infanta Eden M., Umashankar Vetrivel

“…In this way, the pathogenic read information found at lesser proportions in a complex eukaryotic dataset is precisely obtained. This protocol presents a comprehensive comparison of these possible approaches, resulting in a robust unified standard methodology.…”
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Eukaryotic plankton community and assembly processes in a large-scale water diversion project in China by Liming Zhu, Lihui Feng, Daoxi Zhang, Fang Shi, Xi Zou, Qing Yang, Shan He, Wen Zhu

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Monocyte eukaryotic initiation factor 2 signaling differentiates 17-hydroxy-docosahexaenoic acid levels and pain by Peter R.W. Gowler, Asta Arendt-Tranholm, James Turnbull, Rakesh R. Jha, David Onion, Tony Kelly, Afroditi Kouraki, Paul Millns, Sameer Gohir, Susan Franks, David A. Barrett, Ana M. Valdes, Victoria Chapman

“…QIAGEN ingenuity pathway analysis identified the top ranked canonical biological pathway to be eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (EIF2) signaling (lower activation level in the low 17-HDHA-high pain group compared to the high 17-HDHA-low pain group (Z score −3)), followed by EIF4 and P70S6K signaling pathways and mTOR signaling. …”
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Metatranscriptomes-based sequence similarity networks uncover genetic signatures within parasitic freshwater microbial eukaryotes by Arthur Monjot, Jérémy Rousseau, Lucie Bittner, Cécile Lepère

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High quality genome assembly and annotation (v1) of the eukaryotic terrestrial microalga Coccomyxa viridis SAG 216-4 by Kraege, Anton, Chavarro-Carrero, Edgar A., Guiglielmoni, Nadège, Schnell, Eva, Kirangwa, Joseph, Heilmann-Heimbach, Stefanie, Becker, Kerstin, Köhrer, Karl, Schiffer, Philipp, Thomma, Bart P. H. J., Rovenich, Hanna

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And growth on form? How tissue expansion generates novel shapes, colours and enhance biological functions of Turing colour patterns of Eukaryotes. by Pierre Galipot

“…Evidenced in zebrafishes skin and Mimulus petal, Turing-like mechanisms are probably responsible for many periodic color patterns of Eukaryotes. They are characterized by the mathematical relationships linking their cellular or molecular actors, the periodicity and the geometrical range of the patterns they produce: spots, stripes or mazes. …”
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Immunofluorescence for Detection of TOR Kinase Activity In Situ in Photosynthetic Organisms by Ana Lando, María De Marco, Andrea Cumino, Giselle Martínez-Noël

“…The target of rapamycin (TOR) is a central hub kinase that promotes growth and development in all eukaryote cells. TOR induces protein synthesis through the phosphorylation of the S6 kinase (S6K), which, in turn, phosphorylates ribosomal S6 protein (RPS6) increasing this anabolic process. …”
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The use of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans in the investigation of the adverse effects of electronic cigarettes by Kamila Melnikov, Alžbeta Kaiglová, Soňa Kucharíková

“…For example, the translucent multicellular eukaryote Caenorhabditis elegans is widely used as a model organism to explain a broad range of biological processes, including aging, stress response, development, and many others. …”
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Induced-volatolomics, a new research field in chemical biology by Blochouse, Estelle, Eid, Rony, Cannoni, Elsa, Châtre, Rémi, Geffroy, Claude, Opalinski, Isabelle, Papot, Sébastien, Poinot, Pauline

“…These probes are converted into exogenous VOCs in response to pathogen or eukaryote specific enzymatic stimuli. Once activated, VOC-based probes release volatile tracers that inform the biochemical processes arising in cells, liquid and solid biopsies, and even in entire organisms. …”
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Engineering artificial photosynthetic life-forms through endosymbiosis by Jay Cournoyer, Sarah D. Altman, Yang-le Gao, Catherine L. Wallace, Dianwen Zhang, Guo-Hsuen Lo, Noah T. Haskin, Angad P. Mehta

“…The endosymbiotic theory suggests that photosynthetic eukaryotes evolved due to endosymbiosis between non-photosynthetic eukaryotic host cells and photosynthetic cyanobacterial or algal endosymbionts. …”
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A review of quorum-sensing and its role in mediating interkingdom interactions in the ocean by Megan Coolahan, Kristen E. Whalen

“…In this review, we examine how these molecules mediate communication between bacteria and marine eukaryotes; influencing processes such as development, disease pathogenesis, and microbiome regulation within marine ecosystems. …”
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Decreased SynMuv B gene activity in response to viral infection leads to activation of the antiviral RNAi pathway in C. elegans. by Ashwin Seetharaman, Himani Galagali, Elizabeth Linarte, Mona H X Liu, Jennifer D Cohen, Kashish Chetal, Ruslan Sadreyev, Alex J Tate, Taiowa A Montgomery, Gary Ruvkun

“…RNA interference (RNAi) mediates antiviral defense in many eukaryotes. Caenorhabditis elegans mutants that disable RNAi are more sensitive to viral infection. …”
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Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the Arctic drift expedition MOSAiC by William Boulton, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Sara Calhoun, Kurt LaButti, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Allison A. Fong, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Katja Metfies, Kersten Oetjen, Sarah Lena Eggers, Oliver Müller, Jessie Gardner, Mats A. Granskog, Anders Torstensson, Marc Oggier, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Andrew Toseland, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Thomas Mock

“…This dataset presents a catalogue of MAGs recovered from a set of 73 samples from MOSAiC, including 2407 prokaryotic and 56 eukaryotic MAGs, as well as annotations of a near complete eukaryotic MAG using the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) annotation pipeline. …”
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R-loops acted on by RNase H1 influence DNA replication timing and genome stability in Leishmania by Jeziel D. Damasceno, Emma M. Briggs, Marija Krasilnikova, Catarina A. Marques, Craig Lapsley, Richard McCulloch

“…Abstract Genomes in eukaryotes normally undergo DNA replication in a choreographed temporal order, resulting in early and late replicating chromosome compartments. …”
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Spatial and temporal variation of Antarctic microbial interactions: a study around the west Antarctic Peninsula by Swan L. S. Sow, Willem H. van de Poll, Rachel Eveleth, Jeremy J. Rich, Hugh W. Ducklow, Patrick D. Rozema, Catherine M. Luria, Henk Bolhuis, Michael P. Meredith, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Julia C. Engelmann

“…Results We report on the seasonal diversity, taxonomic overview, as well as predicted inter-and intra-domain causal effects (interactions) of the bacterial and microbial eukaryotic communities close to the Palmer station and at the Rothera time-series site between July 2013 and April 2014. …”
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Messenger RNA in differentiating muscle cells—my experience in François Gros’ lab in the 1970s and 80s by Buckingham, Margaret

“…In the early 1970s, it was the beginning of research in his lab on muscle cell differentiation, as a model eukaryotic system for studying mRNAs and gene regulation. …”
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