Our understanding of prokaryote–eukaryote symbioses as a source of evolutionary
innovation has been rapidly increased by the advent of genomics, which has made possible …

The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics | Genome Biology
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Protists have fascinated microbiologists since their discovery nearly 350 years ago. These
single-celled, eukaryotic species span an incredible range of sizes, forms, and functions …

Phototaxis in the broadest sense means positive or negative displacement along a light
gradient or vector. Prokaryotes most often use a biased random walk strategy, employing …

Dating of fungal divergences with molecular clocks thus far has yielded highly inconsistent
results. The origin of fungi was estimated at between 660 million and up to 2.15 billion y ago …

The evolution of multicellular animals (Metazoa) from their unicellular ancestors was a key
transition that was accompanied by the emergence and diversification of gene families …

Fossils of organisms dating from the origin and diversification of cellular life are scant and
difficult to interpret, for this reason alternative means to investigate the ecology of the last …

High‐throughput DNA metabarcoding of amplicon sizes below 500 bp has revolutionized
the analysis of environmental microbial diversity. However, these short regions contain …

To appreciate the functional diversity of communities of soil eukaryotic micro-organisms we
evaluated an experimental approach based on the construction and screening of a cDNA …

ABSTRACT DNA sequence information has increasingly been used in ecological research
on microbial eukaryotes. Sequence-based approaches have included studies of the total …