Sentences with phrase «of microbial evolution»

Remarkably, the Phe396 amino acid was present in all of them, indicating it is likely the switch has existed throughout more than 2 billion years of microbial evolution.

Not exact matches

He went on to gain wet lab skills during a 2 - year postdoc in microbial experimental evolution in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, supported with an EMBO Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization.

The staggering loss of biodiversity in recent decades prompted researchers in 2015 to argue that the Anthropocene marks the third stage in the evolution of Earth's biosphere, following on from the microbial stage 3.5 billion years ago and the Cambrian explosion 650 million years ago.

At Ames, Farmer turned back to his grad - school interests in paleobiology and sedimentology and, combining them with his interest in microbial communities, found his research niche: the study of microbial biosediments and their relation to early biosphere evolution.

And so the microbial world was delegated to an invisible world in the 18th century — as natural philosophers turned to questions about the evolution of plants and animals, and the geologic structures that contained fossil remains of extinct organisms.

Recent findings emphasize the importance of investigating members of the archaeal domain of life in order to obtain a more comprehensive view of microbial ecology, symbiosis, and metabolic interdependencies involving archaeal partners, and of evolution of life on Earth in regard to the deep roots of archaea as well as our microbial ancestry.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Malcolm Walter of Macquarie University in Australia discusses the evolution of microbial mats, which are preserved in fossil form as stromatolites.

Through considerations of developmental systems perspectives, epigenetics, and microbial life, Dupré challenges widely held assumptions about biology and evolution.

«Ochman and colleagues show that human evolution was accompanied by both a rapid divergence of the microbiome from the microbiome of apes, and a drastic loss of diversity of the microbial community,» says Thomas Bosch of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

Christina Warinner, professor in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, will present, «The Evolution and Ecology of Our Microbial Self,» during the American Association for the Advancement of Science panel on Evolutionary Biology Impacts on Medicine and Public Health, at 1:30 pm, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 in the Marriott Marshall Ballroom West, Washington, DC.

But Michael Shapira, a UC Berkeley assistant professor of integrative biology, believes that the diverse microbial communities that we harbor have a more profound effect, significantly ratcheting up evolution in an intimate collaboration for survival.

His specialty is microbial life in oceans, and his particular interest is the way that viruses drive the evolution and regulate the activities of bacteria.

Reconstructing the evolution of early microbial life depends mainly on finding organic and mineral remnants of microbial activity preserved in the rock record.

Scientists are pushing to restore human health in Western countries by changing our diet to restore the microbial species lost over the evolution of Western diet.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

PhD position Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Infectious Ecosystems, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

Andrew Bissett, Project Leader for «Microbes and healthy waterways», contributed to a recent publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution that investigated the legacy of past climates on the current distribution of soil microbial communities.

Paradoxically, they remain large unknown, hiding a wealth of genes and genomes that are key to understand the ecology and evolution of microbial...

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Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

How are microbial communities assembled in the > 5,000 - y - old subsurface of marine sediment, and do they undergo adaptive evolution or accumulate mutations due to impaired DNA repair under such energy - limited conditions?

Scientists have discovered a rich fossil record of animal evolution going back more than 600 million years and a much richer one of microbial life starting almost 4 billion years ago.

Arber devoted most of his research to investigations on the molecular processes behind microbial evolution.

Here, I developed a strong interest in a variety of topics that center around this theme, ranging from the origin of the eukaryotic cell to endosymbiosis and evolution of whole microbial populations.

Microbial life on early Earth evolved and changed the environment, thereby enabling the evolution of more complex life.

Paul's research expertise includes: cultivation of marine bacteria, microbial distribution and interactions with marine plants and invertebrates, sequence - based approaches to the discovery of natural products from marine microbes, comparative genomics, microbial chemical ecology, molecular evolution and natural product biosynthesis.

Over and over this GiFACE research shows shifts in speciation and microbial composition, we agree, which is my point, and which «opposite evolution» is a gloss for radical uncontrolled forced redistribution of all the plants we know.