The exploitation of petrochemical hydrocarbons is compromising ecosystem and human
health and biotechnological research is increasingly focusing on sustainable materials from …

Many eukaryotic cells, including animal cells and unicellular amoebae, use dynamic-actin
networks to crawl across solid surfaces. Recent discoveries of actin-dependent crawling in …

Molecular phylogenetics of microbial eukaryotes has reshaped the tree of life by
establishing broad taxonomic divisions, termed supergroups, that supersede the traditional …

In many eukaryotes, genetic sex determination is not governed by XX/XY or ZW/ZZ systems
but by a specialized region on the poorly studied U (female) or V (male) sex chromosomes …

Phylogenomic analyses have boosted our understanding of the evolutionary trajectories of
all living forms by providing continuous improvements to the tree of life. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Within …

Argonaute proteins are the central effectors of RNA-guided RNA silencing pathways in
eukaryotes, playing crucial roles in gene repression and defense against viruses and …

Background Microbial eukaryotes are found alongside bacteria and archaea in natural
microbial systems, including host-associated microbiomes. While microbial eukaryotes are …

Animals use a variety of cell-autonomous innate immune proteins to detect viral infections
and prevent replication. Recent studies have discovered that a subset of mammalian …

Many of the Earth's microbes remain uncultured and understudied, limiting our
understanding of the functional and evolutionary aspects of their genetic material, which …

Land plants have diversified enzyme families. One of the most prominent is the cytochrome
P450 (CYP or CYP450) family. With over 443,000 CYP proteins sequenced across the tree …