[PDF][PDF] Lessons from extremophiles: functional adaptations and genomic innovations across the eukaryotic tree of life

HB Rappaport, AM Oliverio - Genome biology and evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
From hydrothermal vents, to glaciers, to deserts, research in extreme environments has
reshaped our understanding of how and where life can persist. Contained within the …

Genetic Transfer in Action: Uncovering DNA Flow in an Extremophilic Microbial Community

J Van Etten, TG Stephens… - Environmental …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Horizontal genetic transfer (HGT) is a significant driver of genomic novelty in all domains of
life. HGT has been investigated in many studies however, the focus has been on …

Temporal dynamics in a red alga dominated geothermal feature in Yellowstone National Park

TG Stephens, J Van Etten, T McDermott… - ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Alga-dominated geothermal spring communities in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), USA,
have been the focus of many studies, however, relatively little is known about the …

LA4SR: illuminating the dark proteome with generative AI

DR Nelson, AK Jaiswal, N Ismail, A Mystikou… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
AI language models (LMs) show promise for biological sequence analysis. We re-
engineered open-source LMs (GPT-2, BLOOM, DistilRoBERTa, ELECTRA, and Mamba …

Proteins Associated with Salinity Adaptation of the Dinoflagellates: Diversity and Potential Involvement in Species Evolution.

NV Annenkova - Diversity (14242818), 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Protists inhabit marine, brackish and fresh waters. The salt barrier plays an important role in
the origin of their diversity. Salinity tolerance differs among species and sometimes even …

Community-wide interactions sustain life in geothermal spring habitats

TG Stephens, J Van Etten, T McDermott, W Christian… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
We investigated an alga-dominated geothermal spring community in Yellowstone National
Park, USA. Our goal was to determine how cells cope with abiotic stressors during diurnal …