Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. | ...

Microbial life thrives in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Bacteria, archaea, and other microorganisms inhabit ...

GToTree is a more structured implementation of a workflow I would put together everytime I wanted to make a large-scale phylogenomic tree. What do I mean by large-scale? Anything from a full-blown ...

Fructose availability promotes bacterial colonization in the human gut via regulation of the fructose operon in Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, governed by the transcription factor FruR and its ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. The structure of chromatin at the nucleosome ...