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An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life by Williams, Tom A., Foster, Peter G., Cox, Cymon J., Embley, T. Martin

“…Accumulating evidence that the eukaryotic nuclear lineage originated from within the Archaea provides support for a tree containing only two primary domains of…”
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The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte by Puttick, Mark N., Morris, Jennifer L., Williams, Tom A., Cox, Cymon J., Edwards, Dianne, Kenrick, Paul, Pressel, Silvia, Wellman, Charles H., Schneider, Harald, Pisani, Davide, Donoghue, Philip C.J.

“…The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty…”
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Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes by Liu, Yang, Johnson, Matthew G., Cox, Cymon J., Medina, Rafael, Devos, Nicolas, Vanderpoorten, Alain, Hedenäs, Lars, Bell, Neil E., Shevock, James R., Aguero, Blanka, Quandt, Dietmar, Wickett, Norman J., Shaw, A. Jonathan, Goffinet, Bernard

“…Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification, spanning at least 400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous due to the…”
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Nuclear protein phylogenies support the monophyly of the three bryophyte groups (Bryophyta Schimp.) by de Sousa, Filipe, Foster, Peter G., Donoghue, Philip C. J., Schneider, Harald, Cox, Cymon J.

“…• Unraveling the phylogenetic relationships between the four major lineages of terrestrial plants (mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and vascular plants) is…”
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Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life by Williams, Tom A., Cox, Cymon J., Foster, Peter G., Szöllősi, Gergely J., Embley, T. Martin

“…Hypotheses about the origin of eukaryotic cells are classically framed within the context of a universal ‘tree of life’ based on conserved core genes. Vigorous…”
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Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics by Cock, Peter J. A., Antao, Tiago, Chang, Jeffrey T., Chapman, Brad A., Cox, Cymon J., Dalke, Andrew, Friedberg, Iddo, Hamelryck, Thomas, Kauff, Frank, Wilczynski, Bartek, de Hoon, Michiel J. L.

“…The Biopython project is a mature open source international collaboration of volunteer developers, providing Python libraries for a wide range of…”
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Conflicting Phylogenies for Early Land Plants are Caused by Composition Biases among Synonymous Substitutions by Cox, Cymon J., Li, Blaise, Foster, Peter G., Embley, T. Martin, Civáň, Peter

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Three geographically separate domestications of Asian rice by Civáň, Peter, Craig, Hayley, Cox, Cymon J., Brown, Terence A.

“…Domesticated rice ( Oryza sativa L.) accompanied the dawn of Asian civilization 1 and has become one of world's staple crops. From archaeological and genetic…”
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Improved phylogeny of brown algae Cystoseira (Fucales) from the Atlantic-Mediterranean region based on mitochondrial sequences by Bruno de Sousa, Carolina, Cox, Cymon J, Brito, Luís, Pavão, Maria Madalena, Pereira, Hugo, Ferreira, Ana, Ginja, Catarina, Campino, Lenea, Bermejo, Ricardo, Parente, Manuela, Varela, João

“…Cystoseira is a common brown algal genus widely distributed throughout the Atlantic and Mediterranean regions whose taxonomical assignment of specimens is…”
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Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria by Karimi, Elham, Keller-Costa, Tina, Slaby, Beate M., Cox, Cymon J., da Rocha, Ulisses N., Hentschel, Ute, Costa, Rodrigo

“…Marine sponges are early-branching, filter-feeding metazoans that usually host complex microbiomes comprised of several, currently uncultivatable symbiotic…”
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archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes by Cox, Cymon J, Foster, Peter G, Hirt, Robert P, Harris, Simon R, Embley, T. Martin

“…The origin of the eukaryotic genetic apparatus is thought to be central to understanding the evolution of the eukaryotic cell. Disagreement about the source of…”
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Organellar phylogenomics of an emerging model system: Sphagnum (peatmoss) by Shaw, A. Jonathan, Devos, Nicolas, Liu, Yang, Cox, Cymon J., Goffinet, Bernard, Flatberg, Kjell Ivar, Shaw, Blanka

“…Sphagnum-dominated peatlands contain approx. 30 % of the terrestrial carbon pool in the form of partially decomposed plant material (peat), and, as a…”
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The Chloroplast Land Plant Phylogeny: Analyses Employing Better-Fitting Tree- and Site-Heterogeneous Composition Models by Sousa, Filipe, Civáň, Peter, Foster, Peter G., Cox, Cymon J.

“…The colonization of land by descendants of charophyte green algae marked a turning point in Earth history that enabled the development of the diverse…”
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Absence of N-terminal acetyltransferase diversification during evolution of eukaryotic organisms by Rathore, Om Singh, Faustino, Alexandra, Prudêncio, Pedro, Van Damme, Petra, Cox, Cymon J., Martinho, Rui Gonçalo

“…Protein N-terminal acetylation is an ancient and ubiquitous co-translational modification catalyzed by a highly conserved family of N-terminal…”
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Inferring the Deep Past from Molecular Data by Williams, Tom A, Schrempf, Dominik, Szöllősi, Gergely J, Cox, Cymon J, Foster, Peter G, Embley, T Martin

“…Abstract There is an expectation that analyses of molecular sequences might be able to distinguish between alternative hypotheses for ancient relationships,…”
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Data-specific substitution models improve protein-based phylogenetics by Brazão, João M, Foster, Peter G, Cox, Cymon J

“…Calculating amino-acid substitution models that are specific for individual protein data sets is often difficult due to the computational burden of estimating…”
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The primary divisions of life: a phylogenomic approach employing composition-heterogeneous methods by Foster, Peter G., Cox, Cymon J., Embley, T. Martin

“…The three-domains tree, which depicts eukaryotes and archaebacteria as monophyletic sister groups, is the dominant model for early eukaryotic evolution. By…”
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Increased diversification rates follow shifts to bisexuality in liverworts by Laenen, Benjamin, Machac, Antonin, Gradstein, S. Robbert, Shaw, Blanka, Patiño, Jairo, Désamoré, Aurélie, Goffinet, Bernard, Cox, Cymon J., Shaw, A. Jonathan, Vanderpoorten, Alain

“…Shifts in sexual systems are one of the key drivers of species diversification. In contrast to angiosperms, unisexuality prevails in bryophytes. Here, we test…”
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Comparative analysis of zebrafish bone morphogenetic proteins 2, 4 and 16: molecular and evolutionary perspectives by Marques, Cátia L, Fernández, Ignacio, Viegas, Michael N, Cox, Cymon J, Martel, Paulo, Rosa, Joana, Cancela, M. Leonor, Laizé, Vincent

“…BMP2, BMP4 and BMP16 form a subfamily of bone morphogenetic proteins acting as pleiotropic growth factors during development and as bone inducers during…”
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Batch studies on the biodegradation of paracetamol and 1,4-hydroquinone by novel bacterial strains isolated from extreme environmental samples and the identification of candidate catabolic genes by Lara-Moreno, Alba, El-Sayed, Fatma, Cox, Cymon J., Costa, Maria C., Carlier, Jorge D.

“…The emerging pollutant paracetamol (APAP) is one of the most prescribed drugs worldwide. In addition, APAP and its main metabolites, namely, 4-aminophenol…”
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