The marine environment is home to a taxonomically diverse ecosystem. Organisms such as
algae, molluscs, sponges, corals, and tunicates have evolved to survive the high …

Diverse microbial ecosystems underpin life in the sea. Among these microbes are many
unicellular eukaryotes that span the diversity of the eukaryotic tree of life. However, genetic …

Plastids are supported by a wide range of proteins encoded within the nucleus and imported
from the cytoplasm. These plastid-targeted proteins may originate from the endosymbiont …

Sunlight is the dominant control on phytoplankton biosynthetic activity, and darkness
deprives them of their primary external energy source. Changes in the biochemical …

Metatranscriptomics generates large volumes of sequence data about transcribed genes in
natural environments. Taxonomic annotation of these datasets depends on availability of …

Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons is a promising approach for the production of alternative
sources of energy because of the emerging need to reduce global consumption of fossil …

Eukaryotic algae are an extremely diverse category of photosynthetic organisms and some
species produce highly potent bioactive compounds poisonous to humans or other animals …

Background Until recent studies documented their extensive contribution to primary
productivity and carbon sequestration, haptophytes remained underappreciated players in …

At least 7 proteorhodopsin sequences of Oxyrrhis marina were recently proven in bands
obtained by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and MS analyses revealed that the …

Abstract GTPases of Immunity-Associated Proteins (GIMAP) are a group of small GTP-
binding proteins found in a variety of organisms, including vertebrates, invertebrates, and …