Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI ... that DUI may have evolved as a mechanism for sex determination, akin to cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) systems found in some plants, where mitochondrial ...

Bacterial flagella are essential structures ... that help stabilize the motor as it is being built. For example, novel cytoplasmic rings have been discovered that interact with the torque ...

How cells respond to mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage is not fully understood. This study uncovers a mechanism of mtDNA ...

Copper is an essential enzyme cofactor in bacteria, but excess copper is highly toxic. Bacteria can cope with copper stress by increasing copper resistance and initiating chemorepellent response.

2014). RNA modifications are present in almost all the cellular RNAs in archaeobacteria, bacteria, plants, fungi, and animals. There are almost 150 kinds of modifications that have been found in RNA ...

This valuable study implicates a specific Wolbachia gene in driving the male-killing phenotype in a moth: This is a contribution to a growing body of literature from the authors in which they authors ...

Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States ...

Figure 1 The antiviral response to Influenza A Virus infection. Following IAV entry and infection, single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) and RNA degradation products incorporated into endosomes are recognized ...

LO1: Describe and explain the basic structure and function of important examples of bacteria, archaea, viruses ... cytogenetics, diploid inheritance, allelic and epistatic interactions, aneuploidy, ...

Primitive organelles, such as micro-compartments found in some bacteria, help organize cellular processes by concentrating specific ... and often exhibit unique adaptations to survive without the ...