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Content type: Research
| 14 December 2018

Stable coevolutionary regimes for genetic parasites and their hosts: you must differ to coevolve

Authors: Faina Berezovskaya, Georgy P. Karev, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf and Eugene V. Koonin
Content type: Commentary
| 29 November 2018

Response to Martin and colleagues: mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Authors: Michael Lynch and Georgi K. Marinov

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Content type: Research
| 23 November 2018

Reconstruction of endosomal organization and function by a combination of ODE and agent-based modeling strategies

Authors: Luis S. Mayorga, Ignacio Cebrian, Meghna Verma, Stefan Hoops and Josep Bassaganya-Riera
Content type: Research
| 26 October 2018

Darwinian selection of host and bacteria supports emergence of Lamarckian-like adaptation of the system as a whole

Authors: Dino Osmanovic, David A. Kessler, Yitzhak Rabin and Yoav Soen
Content type: Research
| 17 October 2018

Sense-antisense gene overlap is probably a cause for retaining the few introns in Giardia genome and the implications

Authors: Min Xue, Bing Chen, Qingqing Ye, Jingru Shao, Zhangxia Lyu and Jianfan Wen

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Content type: Hypothesis
| 2 July 2014

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

Authors: Alexander Y Panchin, Alexander I Tuzhikov and Yuri V Panchin
Content type: Research
| 11 December 2008

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

Authors: Nacho Molina and Erik van Nimwegen
Content type: Hypothesis
| 24 August 2009

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

Authors: Armen Y Mulkidjanian
Content type: Hypothesis
| 19 September 2006

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

Authors: Eugene V Koonin, Tatiana G Senkevich and Valerian V Dolja
Content type: Research
| 16 March 2006

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Authors: Kira S Makarova, Nick V Grishin, Svetlana A Shabalina, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

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Stable coevolutionary regimes for genetic parasites and their hosts: you must differ to coevolve

Response to Martin and colleagues: mitochondria do not boost the bioenergetic capacity of eukaryotic cells

Reconstruction of endosomal organization and function by a combination of ODE and agent-based modeling strategies

Darwinian selection of host and bacteria supports emergence of Lamarckian-like adaptation of the system as a whole

Sense-antisense gene overlap is probably a cause for retaining the few introns in Giardia genome and the implications

Midichlorians - the biomeme hypothesis: is there a microbial component to religious rituals?

The evolution of domain-content in bacterial genomes

On the origin of life in the Zinc world: 1. Photosynthesizing, porous edifices built of hydrothermally precipitated zinc sulfide as cradles of life on Earth

The ancient Virus World and evolution of cells

A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

Editors-in-Chief

Proceedings of the CAMDA Satellite Meeting to ISMB 2017

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News from BioMed Central

Our insights from engineering genomes

Why do aphids piggyback on each other after dropping off the plant?

Challenges to globalizing genetic predictions of health and disease

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