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HETEROMORPHS. "The dominant reproductive mode of haptophytes is asexual mitotic division. However, in many haptophytes more complex life-cycles have been documented, with two or more morphologically distinct phases." https://lnkd.in/eUUB9pU View in LinkedIn

VIRUSES AND EVOLUTION. "A significant part of the human genome turns out to consist of viral genes and it is beginning to look as though the ability of viruses to transfer genes to and from their hosts and each other — so spreading genes throughout the biological world — may have been an important factor in the evolution of species." https://lnkd.in/eD4R5hH View in LinkedIn

THE VIROSPHERE. "Vastly more virus species exist than previously thought (100 million or more, outnumbering any other type of organism) and they are to be found in pretty much every environment on the planet." https://lnkd.in/eD4R5hH View in LinkedIn

THE VIROSPHERE. "Vastly more virus species exist than previously thought (100 million or more, outnumbering any other type of organism) and they are to be found in pretty much every environment on the planet." https://lnkd.in/eD4R5hH View in LinkedIn

NEW INFO #5. "Viruses and their various roles in evolution and developmental processes as obligate inhabitants of cellular genomes change our view on the evolution and function of the nucleic acid language and its interconnection with the amino acid language. Some authors suggest the existence of a fourth domain of life, the virosphere." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

GENETIC MERGER. "Another example is that of cilia, the rods in the retina, the tail of sperm cells, sensory hairs and many similar appendages of nucleated cells which arose during the original merger of archaebacteria and a swimming bacterium. The bodies they contain (so-called “centriole-kinetosomes”) arose through this archaic merger." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

ENDOSYMBIOSIS THEORY. "A large and diverse body of evidence supports the notion that mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts), the textbook membrane-bound organelles of eukaryotes, evolved from once free-living bacteria by endosymbiosis." https://lnkd.in/eeAhj-A View in LinkedIn

PROF WOESE. "He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Amherst College in 1950. During his time at Amherst, Woese took only one biology course (Biochemistry, in his senior year) and had "no scientific interest in plants and animals" until advised by William M. Fairbank, then an assistant professor of physics at Amherst, to pursue biophysics at Yale (PhD). " "Leeuwenhoek Medal (1992). Selman A. Waksman Award (1995). National Medal of Science (2000). Crafoord Prize (2003)." https://lnkd.in/eWXThmK View in LinkedIn

CARL RICHARD WOESE. (July 15, 1928 – December 30, 2012) was an American microbiologist and biophysicist. Woese is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese which revolutionized the discipline of microbiology. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He held the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and was professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign." https://lnkd.in/eWXThmK View in LinkedIn

KEY EVOLUTIONARY PLAYERS. "Today we can identify several consortia of key players that coordinate and organize the genetic content compositions of host organisms: endogenous viruses and defectives, transposons, retrotransposons, long terminal repeats, nonlong terminal repeats, long interspersed nuclear elements, short interspersed nuclear elements, group I introns, group II introns, phages, and plasmids are currently investigated examples that use genomic DNA as their preferred living habitat." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn