Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: Streptomyces metabolism; diversity of Entamoeba transposons; Arabidopsis polymorphism pattern; miRNA effect on plant transcriptome; energy costs of gene duplications

Summary

Streptomyces metabolism; diversity of Entamoeba transposons; Arabidopsis polymorphism pattern; miRNA effect on plant transcriptome; energy costs of gene duplications

Streptomyces metabolism

Genome-scale analysis of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) metabolism. Borodina I, Krabben P, Nielsen J. Genome Res 2005, 15:820-829.

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Diversity of Entamoeba transposons

Unexpected diversity and differential success of DNA transposons in four species of Entamoeba protozoans. Pritham EJ, Feschotte C, Wessler SR. Mol Biol Evol 2005, May 18.

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Arabidopsis polymorphism pattern

The pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana . Nordborg M, Hu TT, Ishino Y, Jhaveri J, Toomajian C, Zheng H, Bakker E, Calabrese P, Gladstone J, Goyal R, et al. PLoS Biol 2005, 3:e196.

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miRNA effect on plant transcriptome

Specific effects of microRNAs on the plant transcriptome. Schwab R, Palatnik JF, Riester M, Schommer C, Schmid M, Weigel D. Dev Cell 2005, 8:517-527.

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Energy costs of gene duplications

Energy constraints on the evolution of gene expression. Wagner A. Mol Biol Evol 2005, 22:1365-1374.

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