Bacterial viruses are an unexpected ‘third party’ that imposes a strong predatory pressure on a bacterial pathogen during the natural course of infection in humans.
Zachary K Barth, Maria HT Nguyen, Kimberley D Seed
Horizontal transfer of a sequence-specific DNA-binding domain allows a virus to destroy its subviral parasite and overcome parasite-mediated restriction.
Seyed Saeed Asadzadeh, Thomas Kiørboe ... Jens H Walther
The architecture of flagellated chambers in sponge pumps is linked to that of body plan, supporting the current view that the sponge aquiferous system evolved from an open-type filtration system.
Genetic and molecular analyses identify and characterize an evolutionary battle over lysis timing wherein a bacteriophage delays lysis through lysis inhibition while a defensive phage satellite accelerates lysis.
Caroline M Boyd, Sundharraman Subramanian ... Kimberley D Seed
A phage parasite encodes an external scaffolding protein to pirate and rearrange phage-encoded coat proteins to more efficiently transfer the phage parasite genome to new hosts and limit phage production.
Jermyn Z See, Craig A Atencio ... Christoph E Schreiner
Auditory cortical columns contain small subsets of neurons with highly synchronous activity (cNEs) that create robust sequences of coordinated activity suitable for enhanced information processing and signal transmission beyond the capability of individual neurons.
Stefanie Hampel, Claire E McKellar ... Andrew M Seeds
A grooming sequence is produced by a neural architecture that readies different movements simultaneously, and a mechanism where prioritized suppression between the movements determines their sequential performance.