A decade after the beginning of the genomic era, the question of how genomics can
describe a bacterial species has not been fully addressed. Experimental data have shown …

Various independent discoveries have shown that many organic codes exist in living
systems, and this implies that they came into being during the history of life and contributed …

Even before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, the perception of evolutionary
change has been a tree-like pattern of diversification-with divergent branches spreading …

The Archaea evolved as one of the three primary lineages several billion years ago, but the
first archaea to be discovered were described in the scientific literature about 130 years ago …

Trypanosoma cruzi acute infections often go unperceived, but one third of chronically
infected individuals die of Chagas disease, showing diverse manifestations affecting the …

Natural transformation is a mechanism for genetic exchange in many bacterial genera. It
proceeds through the uptake of exogenous DNA and subsequent homology-dependent …

Hybridization between differentiated lineages can have many different consequences
depending on fitness variation among hybrid offspring. When introduced organisms …

Background First pass methods based on BLAST match are commonly used as an initial
step to separate the different phylogenetic histories of genes in microbial genomes, and …

This article discusses the possibility of plant decision making. We contend that recent work
on bacteria provides a pertinent perspective for thinking about whether plants make choices …

Interspecies DNA transfer is a major biological process leading to the accumulation of
mutations inherited by sexual reproduction among eukaryotes. Lateral DNA transfer events …