Soil is the habitat of countless organisms and encompasses an enormous variety of dynamic
environmental conditions. While it is evident that a thorough understanding of how …

Meiosis is a critical cell division program that produces haploid gametes for sexual
reproduction. Abnormalities in meiosis are often causes of infertility and birth defects (eg …

Members of the bacterial order Rickettsiales are obligatorily associated with a wide range of
eukaryotic hosts. Their evolutionary trajectories, in particular concerning the origin of shared …

The fruit fly or Drosophila melanogaster has been used as a promising model organism in
genetics, developmental and behavioral studies as well as in the fields of neuroscience …

Holosporales are an alphaproteobacterial lineage encompassing bacteria obligatorily
associated with multiple diverse eukaryotes. For most representatives, little is known on the …

Chromatin modification is traditionally assessed in biochemical assays that provide average
measurements of static events given that the analysis requires components from many cells …

The nanotechnology revolution has allowed us to speculate on the possibility of hybridising
nanoscale materials with live substrates, yet significant doubt still remains pertaining to the …

Condensin is a protein complex with diverse functions in chromatin packaging and
chromosome condensation and segregation. We studied condensin in the evolutionarily …

Two new Euplotes species have been isolated from cold shallow sandy sediments of the
extreme Southern Chilean coasts: Euplotes foissneri sp. nov., from a low-salinity site at …

The development of the RNA 'vegetable'aptamers, Spinach and Broccoli, has simplified
RNA imaging, especially in live cells. These RNA aptamers interact with a fluorophore …