Life as we know it — plants, animals, fungi, even you and me — depends on something that happened more than 2 billion years ...

The Grant County Health District has lifted the water quality advisory for the Pelican Horn area of Moses Lake.

Two local beaches on the river side of Plum Island were open for business again Thursday after additional testing showed that harmful bacteria levels were well below the ...

For simple lifeforms like prokaryotes—bacteria and archaea, they found that gene and protein length track each other. It seems that over time, genes got longer and so coded longer proteins.

Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms have developed genetic mechanisms by which they can evolve to adapt to and meet the challenges thrown at them by a changing environment. One process by which ...

Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex life, their defining feature being the presence of membrane-bound organelles. This article details the structure of eukaryotic cells and provides ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

Dr Christian Jogler Institute of Microbiology of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Neugasse 24 07743 Jena phone: (+49) ...

Heterotrophic prokaryotes have the capacity to uptake inorganic nitrogen (N) substrates. However, it remains unclear what the potential competition is between heterotrophic prokaryotes and autotrophic ...

Richard LaBrie, Simon Bélanger, Ronald Benner, Roxane Maranger, Spatial abundance distribution of prokaryotes is associated with dissolved organic matter composition and ecosystem function, Limnology ...