[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 …

Relaxed purifying selection is associated with an accumulation of transposable elements in flies

V Mérel, T Tricou, N Burlet, A Haudry - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Although the mechanisms driving the evolution of genome size are not yet fully understood,
one potentially important factor is the dynamics of the accumulation of mobile selfish genetic …

Plant synthetic genomics: Big lessons from the little yeast

H Ye, G Luo, Z Zheng, X Li, J Cao, J Liu, J Dai - Cell Chemical Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Yeast has been extensively studied and engineered due to its genetic amenability. Projects
like Sc2. 0 and Sc3. 0 have demonstrated the feasibility of constructing synthetic yeast …