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Retention of the virus-derived sequences in the nuclear genome of grapevine as a potential pathway to virus resistance
Christophe Bertsch, Monique Beuve, Valerian V. Dolja, Marion Wirth, Frederique Pelsy, Etienne Herrbach, Olivier Lemaire
Biology Direct 2009, 4:21 (26 June 2009)
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-MYN: a new algorithm for estimating Ka and Ks with consideration of variable substitution rates
Da-Peng Wang, Hao-Lei Wan, Song Zhang, Jun Yu
Biology Direct 2009, 4:20 (16 June 2009)
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Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes
Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:19 (3 June 2009)
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Mapping the sequence mutations of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus neuraminidase relative to drug and antibody binding sites
Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Jianmin Ma, Raphael Tze Chuen Lee, Fernanda L Sirota, Frank Eisenhaber
Biology Direct 2009, 4:18 (20 May 2009)
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Chaotic expression dynamics implies pluripotency: when theory and experiment meet
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:17 (15 May 2009)
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A four-column theory for the origin of the genetic code: tracing the evolutionary pathways that gave rise to an optimized code
Paul G Higgs
Biology Direct 2009, 4:16 (24 April 2009)
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A strain-variable bacteriocin in Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus with repeated Cys-Xaa-Xaa motifs
Daniel H Haft
Biology Direct 2009, 4:15 (21 April 2009)
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Transcript length bias in RNA-seq data confounds systems biology
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:14 (16 April 2009)
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Massive comparative genomic analysis reveals convergent evolution of specialized bacteria
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:13 (10 April 2009)
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Deciphering peculiar protein-protein interacting modules in Deinococcus radiodurans
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:12 (8 April 2009)
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Evolution of DNA polymerases: an inactivated polymerase-exonuclease module in Pol and a chimeric origin of eukaryotic polymerases from two classes of archaeal ancestors
Tahir H Tahirov, Kira S Makarova, Igor B Rogozin, Youri I Pavlov, Eugene V Koonin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:11 (18 March 2009)
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Pitfalls of the most commonly used models of context dependent substitution
Helen Lindsay, Von Bing Yap, Hua Ying, Gavin A Huttley
Biology Direct 2009, 4:10 (18 March 2009)
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The origins of phagocytosis and eukaryogenesis
Natalya Yutin, Maxim Y Wolf, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:9 (26 February 2009)
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A comparative genomics study of genetic products potentially encoding ladderane lipid biosynthesis
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:8 (16 February 2009)
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A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land
Giovanni Emiliani, Marco Fondi, Renato Fani, Simonetta Gribaldo
Biology Direct 2009, 4:7 (16 February 2009)
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A simple model for the early events of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: modeling bacterial swarming as the movement of an "activation zone"
Sergiu Netotea, Iris Bertani, Laura Steindler, Ádám Kerényi, Vittorio Venturi, Sándor Pongor
Biology Direct 2009, 4:6 (12 February 2009)
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Issues associated with assessing nuclear localization of N-terminally unphosphorylated -catenin with monoclonal antibody 8E7
Meghan T Maher, Annette S Flozak, Alyssa M Hartsell, Susan Russell, Rohinee Beri, Ofra N Peled, Cara J Gottardi
Biology Direct 2009, 4:5 (2 February 2009)
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One ancestor for two codes viewed from the perspective of two complementary modes of tRNA aminoacylation
Andrei S Rodin, Eörs Szathmáry, Sergei N Rodin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:4 (27 January 2009)
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Bioinformatic flowchart and database to investigate the origins and diversity of Clan AA peptidases
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Biology Direct 2009, 4:3 (27 January 2009)
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The human Ago2 MC region does not contain an eIF4E-like mRNA cap binding motif
Lisa N Kinch, Nick V Grishin
Biology Direct 2009, 4:2 (21 January 2009)
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