trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

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Plastid genomes and proteins illuminate the evolution of eustigmatophyte algae and their bacterial endosymbionts

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The transposon-encoded protein TnpB processes its own mRNA into ωRNA for guided nuclease activity

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Benchmarking Orthogroup Inference Accuracy: Revisiting Orthobench

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Double-stranded RNA sequencing reveals distinct riboviruses associated with thermoacidophilic bacteria from hot springs in Japan

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A widespread group of large plasmids in methanotrophic Methanoperedens archaea

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Karyotypic stasis and swarming influenced the evolution of viral tolerance in a species-rich bat radiation

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Viperin immunity evolved across the tree of life through serial innovations on a conserved scaffold

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CRISPRi-ART enables functional genomics of diverse bacteriophages using RNA-binding dCas13d

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Discovery of EMRE in fungi resolves the true evolutionary history of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter

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Draft genome analysis for Enterobacter kobei, a promising lead bioremediation bacterium

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Structure of the reduced microsporidian proteasome bound by PI31-like peptides in dormant spores

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Viro3D: a comprehensive database of virus protein structure predictions

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De novo European eel transcriptome provides insights into the evolutionary history of duplicated genes in teleost lineages

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The Birth-and-Death Evolution of Cytochrome P450 Genes in Bees

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Ubiquitous purine sensor modulates diverse signal transduction pathways in bacteria

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Uncoupled evolution of the Polycomb system and deep origin of non-canonical PRC1

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Phylotranscriptomics suggests the jawed vertebrate ancestor could generate diverse helper and regulatory T cell subsets

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Cyanobacterial α-carboxysome carbonic anhydrase is allosterically regulated by the Rubisco substrate RuBP

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Integrating Phylogenetics With Intron Positions Illuminates the Origin of the Complex Spliceosome

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Discovery of archaeal Fusexins homologous to eukaryotic HAP2/GCS1 gamete fusion proteins

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Nitrate-driven anaerobic oxidation of ethane and butane by bacteria

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Bifidobacteriaceae diversity in the human microbiome from a large-scale genome-wide analysis

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Reductive acetogenesis is a dominant process in the ruminant hindgut

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GC Content Across Insect Genomes: Phylogenetic Patterns, Causes and Consequences

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Evidence of microbial reductive dehalogenation in deep-sea cold seeps and its implications for biogeochemical cycles

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Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually

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Exploring a diverse world of effector domains and amyloid signaling motifs in fungal NLR proteins

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Bioinformatics Analysis of Bacterial Annexins – Putative Ancestral Relatives of Eukaryotic Annexins

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A choline-releasing glycerophosphodiesterase essential for phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis and blood stage development in the malaria parasite

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Filamentation activates bacterial Avs5 antiviral protein

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Repeated duplications and losses shaped SMC complex evolution from archaeal ancestors to modern eukaryotes

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Mitochondrial genome diversity across the subphylum Saccharomycotina

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Antibiotic hyper-resistance in a class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase with altered active site signature motif

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Snowball: a novel gene family required for developmental patterning of fruiting bodies of mushroom-forming fungi (Agaricomycetes)

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Kinetoplastid kinetochore proteins KKT14–KKT15 are divergent Bub1/BubR1–Bub3 proteins

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High-affinity PQQ import is widespread in Gram-negative bacteria

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Systematics and conservation of an endemic radiation of Accipiter hawks in the Caribbean islands

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Archaeal type six secretion system mediates contact-dependent antagonism

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DNA Polymerase Diversity Reveals Multiple Incursions of Polintons During Nematode Evolution

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Phylogenetic and Protein Structure Analyses Provide Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of the CD36 Domain “Apex” among Scavenger Receptor Class B Proteins across Eukarya

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Electrochemical cofactor recycling of bacterial microcompartments

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The fitness cost of spurious phosphorylation

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The Streptomyces viridochromogenes product template domain represents an evolutionary intermediate between dehydratase and aldol cyclase of type I polyketide synthases

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Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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New β-Propellers Are Continuously Amplified From Single Blades in all Major Lineages of the β-Propeller Superfamily

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Phylogenomic analysis does not support a classic but controversial hypothesis of progenitor‐derivative origins for the serpentine endemic Clarkia franciscana

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Comprehensive analysis of insertion sequences within rRNA genes of CPR bacteria and biochemical characterization of a homing endonuclease encoded by these sequences

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Independent horizontal transfer of genes encoding α/β-hydrolases with strigolactone binding and hydrolytic activities from bacteria to fungi and plants

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Specialization Restricts the Evolutionary Paths Available to Yeast Sugar Transporters

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Several independent adaptations of archaea to hypersaline environments

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Diversity of Bathyarchaeia viruses in metagenomes and virus-encoded CRISPR system components

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Evolutionary history of metazoan TMEM16 family

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Insights into the bioluminescence systems of three sea pens (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): from de novo transcriptome analyses to biochemical assays

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Evolutionary plasticity and functional repurposing of the essential metabolic enzyme MoeA

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Diverse quorum sensing systems regulate microbial communication and biogeochemical processes in deep-sea cold seeps

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Whole genome sequencing and In silico analysis of the safety and probiotic features of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei FMT2 isolated from fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) capsules

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EcoFoldDB: Protein structure-guided functional profiling of ecologically relevant microbial traits at the metagenome scale

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luxA Gene From Enhygromyxa salina Encodes a Functional Homodimeric Luciferase

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