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  1. For the purposes of phylogenetic inference from molecular data sets many different methods are currently offered as alternatives for researchers in phylogenetic systematics. The vast majority of these methods ...

    Authors: Srdan V Stankov

    Citation: Biology Direct 2006 1:5

    Content type: Research

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  4. The interpandemic evolution of the influenza A virus hemagglutinin (HA) protein is commonly considered a paragon of rapid evolutionary change under positive selection in which amino acid replacements are fixed...

    Authors: Yuri I Wolf, Cecile Viboud, Edward C Holmes, Eugene V Koonin and David J Lipman

    Citation: Biology Direct 2006 1:34

    Content type: Research

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  5. All archaeal and many bacterial genomes contain Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindrome Repeats (CRISPR) and variable arrays of the CRISPR-associated (cas) genes that have been previously implicated in a...

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

    Citation: Biology Direct 2006 1:7

    Content type: Research

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  6. The origin of the translation system is, arguably, the central and the hardest problem in the study of the origin of life, and one of the hardest in all evolutionary biology. The problem has a clear catch-22 a...

    Authors: Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2007 2:14

    Content type: Hypothesis

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  9. Phagocytosis, that is, engulfment of large particles by eukaryotic cells, is found in diverse organisms and is often thought to be central to the very origin of the eukaryotic cell, in particular, for the acqu...

    Authors: Natalya Yutin, Maxim Y Wolf, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2009 4:9

    Content type: Research

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  10. The standard genetic code table has a distinctly non-random structure, with similar amino acids often encoded by codons series that differ by a single nucleotide substitution, typically, in the third or the fi...

    Authors: Artem S Novozhilov, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2007 2:24

    Content type: Research

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  11. The phylum Verrucomicrobia is a widespread but poorly characterized bacterial clade. Although cultivation-independent approaches detect representatives of this phylum in a wide range of environments, including so...

    Authors: Shaobin Hou, Kira S Makarova, Jimmy HW Saw, Pavel Senin, Benjamin V Ly, Zhemin Zhou, Yan Ren, Jianmei Wang, Michael Y Galperin, Marina V Omelchenko, Yuri I Wolf, Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin, Matthew B Stott, Bruce W Mountain, Michelle A Crowe…

    Citation: Biology Direct 2008 3:26

    Content type: Research

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  13. Evolutionarily unrelated proteins that catalyze the same biochemical reactions are often referred to as analogous - as opposed to homologous - enzymes. The existence of numerous alternative, non-homologous enz...

    Authors: Marina V Omelchenko, Michael Y Galperin, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2010 5:31

    Content type: Research

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  14. The availability of multiple complete genome sequences from diverse taxa prompts the development of new phylogenetic approaches, which attempt to incorporate information derived from comparative analysis of co...

    Authors: Yuri I Wolf, Igor B Rogozin, Nick V Grishin, Roman L Tatusov and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: BMC Evolutionary Biology 2001 1:8

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Collections of Clusters of Orthologous Genes (COGs) provide indispensable tools for comparative genomic analysis, evolutionary reconstruction and functional annotation of new genomes. Initially, COGs were made...

    Authors: Yuri I Wolf, Kira S Makarova, Natalya Yutin and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2012 7:46

    Content type: Research

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  16. The prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin systems (TAS, also referred to as TA loci) are widespread, mobile two-gene modules that can be viewed as selfish genetic elements because they evolved mechanisms to become addic...

    Authors: Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2009 4:19

    Content type: Research

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  17. Proteins show a broad range of evolutionary rates. Understanding the factors that are responsible for the characteristic rate of evolution of a given protein arguably is one of the major goals of evolutionary ...

    Authors: Maxim Y Wolf, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2008 3:40

    Content type: Research

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  18. The F- and V-type ATPases are rotary molecular machines that couple translocation of protons or sodium ions across the membrane to the synthesis or hydrolysis of ATP. Both the F-type (found in most bacteria an...

    Authors: Armen Y Mulkidjanian, Michael Y Galperin, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2008 3:13

    Content type: Research

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  20. The CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity systems that are present in most Archaea and many Bacteria function by incorporating fragments of alien genomes into specific genomic loci, transcribing the inserts and using t...

    Authors: Kira S Makarova, L Aravind, Yuri I Wolf and Eugene V Koonin

    Citation: Biology Direct 2011 6:38

    Content type: Research

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