Gene Transfer Agents (GTAs) are fascinating entities found in various bacteria, particularly in the Alphaproteobacteria class. They play a crucial role in horizontal gene transfer (HGT), a process ...

#melted<-melt(temp,id.vars = c(1,5,6),measure.vars = NULL) melted<-melt(temp,id.vars=c(1),measure.vars = c(5,6)) uclust_alpha<-create_melted("phylo_amphora_uclust ...

Bacterial communities in these geographically proximal sponge species are dominated by Proteobacteria (mainly Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria) but exhibit distinct diversity and ...

Given our focus exclusively on the node of eukaryogenesis, we used a minimal calibration scheme as above, including only LUCA and the two nodes bracketing the stem time of eukaryotes, in this case the ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

This valuable study implicates a specific Wolbachia gene in driving the male-killing phenotype in a moth: This is a contribution to a growing body of literature from the authors in which they authors ...