A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

In the race of evolution, innovating is certainly necessary, but recycling existing genes is sometimes more efficient. Indeed, organisms that are very distant from each other can exchange a ...

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the transfer of genetic material between distinct species, a process that plays a major role in the evolution of a genome. There is an increasing body of evidence for ...

Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation and its variation between plant species and ecotypes ...

The leaf beetle Spilopyra sumptuosa lives in the rainforests of eastern Australia. Its spectacular, colorful appearance is an example of the rich diversity of the large family of leaf beetles. The ...

Conserved structural domains and motifs identified in the putative bacterial DCSs. The protein sequence for each of the five proteins (ChjDCS, StrDCS, AcrDCS, SpDCS, and CseDCS) was searched against ...