Had a lovely start to the working day sitting in the sunshine talking to folk in Australia and China at the same time 💚🌱☀️👩🏻💻😎
BIG enhances Arg/N-degron pathway-mediated protein degradation to regulate Arabidopsis hypoxia responses and suberin deposition academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...#plantscience
There are only two reservoirs for the causative agent for leprosy (Hansen's disease), Mycobacterium leprae. 1. Humans 2. 9-banded armadillos But there was no evidence of Hansen's in the Americas prior to Columbus & armadillos are exclusively New World animals, which means...
Viruses frequently remodel the genomes of their hosts, leaving a lasting legacy of new functions. This paper describes evidence that viruses provided new genes that make algae capable of multicellularity, allowed them to thrive and adapt. Hard read for non-scientists, but very pretty figures!
At first there were NOGs, then along came the SNOGs… 🌱 🧬 A prion-like protein regulates the 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional growth transition in Physcomitrium patens - read our preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
