As you have seen, the state of chromatin structure at a specific region in eukaryotic DNA, along with the presence of specific transcription factors, works to regulate gene expression in eukaryotes.

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens ...

It’s based on a protein called Fanzor, and this new finding is the first programmable RNA-guided system discovered in eukaryotes. The new RNA-editing system is described in a study published ...

Eukaryotic genes have structural features that make them less than perfect material for bacteria, but there may be other contributing factors as well. “Maybe eukaryotes don’t have the genes that ...

The mystery genes turned up in the last decade when researchers, including Toni Gabaldón, an evolutionary genomicist at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, and his colleagues took advantage of ...

The relationships between the immune systems of humans and bacteria are especially interesting, Whiteley says, because these four pathways are likely to have been passed to eukaryotes by horizontal ...

The eukaryotic cell emerged as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition Eukaryogenesis happened abruptly, led by the tension of increasing gene length and the constraints on producing longer ...

By representing all the species captured in the 33,627 genomes, the team was able to observationally verify the predictions and, moreover, show that the average gene length is a very good ...

In healthcare, understanding which gene variants are tied to a disease is an invaluable tool for therapeutics. Early validation of Evo 2’s capabilities showed that the model can identify how ...

The mystery of why eukaryotes rely on this baroque system deepened with the discovery that the different branches of the eukaryotic family tree varied widely in the abundance of their introns. The ...