Sentences with phrase «how eukaryotes»

«This is the key to how eukaryotes can evolve more quickly than prokaryotes,» he says.

«We've got a long way to go, studying how eukaryotes [multicelled creatures] can live in extreme environments, like acidic environments, which brings up big questions like life in space,» Sogin says, leaning back in his chair.

It also sheds light on how eukaryotes and prokaryotes evolved.

Not exact matches

This observation has puzzled scientists for decades: How could the complex cell types from eukaryotes have emerged from the simple cells of Archaea?

«So if you are interested in using the tools of synthetic biology to create new pharmaceuticals, then you need to have an idea of how... eukaryotes use pathways to create complicated molecules.

Exactly how and when mitochondria came onboard is one the biggest controversies surrounding the origin of eukaryotes.

Though little is known about Loki, scientists hope that it will help to resolve one of biology's biggest mysteries: how life transformed from simple single - celled organisms to the menagerie of complex life known as eukaryotes — a category that includes everything from yeast to azaleas to elephants.

«How do you make a eukaryote, that's a big question,» said Schleper, a microbiologist at the University of Vienna in Austria.

«There was more push back than I expected about how easy it is to work in eukaryotes,» he said, noting that one judge pointed out that there's a difference between expectation and hope.

An evolutionary relationship between the animal SARM adaptor and bacterial proteins with TIR domains illustrates the possible role that bacterial TIR - containing proteins play in regulating eukaryotic immune responses and how this mechanism was possibly adapted by the eukaryotes themselves.

Contribution to the understanding of how the evolution of gene families relates to functional divergence, including the fate of duplicated genes, horizontal transfer and interspecies hybridization, as well as the characterization of the ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs, and the discovery of the late acquisition of mitochondria in eukaryotes (Gabaldón's group, Science 2014, PLoS Biology 2015, PLoS Genetics 2015, Nature 2016).

In order to determine how the functional roles of these cytoskeletal systems might have changed during the transition from archaea to eukaryotes, they will also be carrying out a comparative analysis of cell division in archaea and eukaryotes.

«This research highlights how interconnected the behavior is between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, between mammalian organisms and the microbes that live inside them,» says lead co-author Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, in a press release.

Learn about prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the difference between plant and animal cells, and how cells divide.