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A bacterial elongation factor G homologue exclusively functions in ribosome recycling in the spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi

scientific article published in February 2010

An actin homolog of the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum that retains the ancient characteristics of eukaryotic actin

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An extra tRNAGly(U*CU) found in ascidian mitochondria responsible for decoding non-universal codons AGA/AGG as glycine

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Ancestral amino acid substitution improves the thermal stability of recombinant lignin-peroxidase from white-rot fungi, Phanerochaete chrysosporium strain UAMH 3641.

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrial EF-G1 functions in two different translation steps.

scientific article published on 21 November 2013

Archaeal pre-mRNA splicing: a connection to hetero-oligomeric splicing endonuclease

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Ascidian mitochondrial tRNA(Met) possessing unique structural characteristics

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Birth of Archaeal Cells: Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses of G1P Dehydrogenase, G3P Dehydrogenases, and Glycerol Kinase Suggest Derived Features of Archaeal Membranes Having G1P Polar Lipids.

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Doliolum nationalis with implications for evolution of urochordates

scientific article published on 19 November 2004

Complete nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial genomes of two solitary entoprocts, Loxocorone allax and Loxosomella aloxiata: implications for lophotrochozoan phylogeny.

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Decoding mechanism of non-universal genetic codes in Loligo bleekeri mitochondria

scientific article published on 28 January 2013

Deinococcus aerius sp. nov., isolated from the high atmosphere.

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Deinococcus aetherius sp. nov., isolated from the stratosphere.

scientific article published on 5 August 2009

Designing thermostable proteins: ancestral mutants of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase designed by using a phylogenetic tree.

scientific article published on 8 November 2005

Diversification of mitochondrial genome of Daphnia galeata (Cladocera, Crustacea): Comparison with phylogenetic consideration of the complete sequences of clones isolated from five lakes in Japan

scientific article published on 17 February 2017

Draft Genome Sequence of the Radioresistant Bacterium Deinococcus aerius TR0125, Isolated from the High Atmosphere above Japan.

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Epistasis effects of multiple ancestral-consensus amino acid substitutions on the thermal stability of glycerol kinase from Cellulomonas sp. NT3060.

scientific article published on 19 October 2015

Establishment of mesophilic-like catalytic properties in a thermophilic enzyme without affecting its thermal stability

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Evolution of Eukaryotic DNA Polymerases via Interaction Between Cells and Large DNA Viruses

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Evolution of pulmonate gastropod mitochondrial genomes: comparisons of gene organizations of Euhadra, Cepaea and Albinaria and implications of unusual tRNA secondary structures.

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Experimental evidence for the thermophilicity of ancestral life

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Extremely thermophilic translation system in the common ancestor commonote: ancestral mutants of Glycyl-tRNA synthetase from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus

scientific article published on 5 April 2007

Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein

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Fluorescence imaging of microbe-containing particles shot from a two-stage Light-gas gun into an aerogel.

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Functional reconstitution of a crenarchaeal splicing endonuclease in vitro

scientific article published on September 2005

Functional reconstitution of an archaeal splicing endonuclease in vitro

scientific article published on January 2005

Gain and loss of an intron in a protein-coding gene in Archaea: the case of an archaeal RNA pseudouridine synthase gene.

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Gene contents and organization of a mitochondrial DNA segment of the squid Loligo bleekeri

scientific article published in June 1999

Hydroxylation of a conserved tRNA modification establishes non-universal genetic code in echinoderm mitochondria.

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Improvement of Bacillus circulans beta-amylase activity attained using the ancestral mutation method.

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Induction profile of HSP70-cognate genes by environmental pollutants in Chironomidae

scientific article published on 21 May 2009

Introns in protein-coding genes in Archaea

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Investigation of the Interplanetary Transfer of Microbes in the Tanpopo Mission at the Exposed Facility of the International Space Station

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Life without tRNAArg-adenosine deaminase TadA: evolutionary consequences of decoding the four CGN codons as arginine in Mycoplasmas and other Mollicutes

scientific article published on 8 May 2013

Long-term conservation of six duplicated structural genes in cephalopod mitochondrial genomes

scientific article published on 05 August 2004

Male death resulting from hybridization between subspecies of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar.

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Mitochondrial Genome of Ciona savignyi (Urochordata, Ascidiacea, Enterogona): Comparison of Gene Arrangement and tRNA Genes with Halocynthia roretzi Mitochondrial Genome

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Mitochondrial genome structure and evolution in the living fossil vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and extant cephalopods.

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Multiple origins of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: molecular phylogeny of photosymbiotic and non-symbiotic colonial ascidians inferred from 18S rDNA sequences

scientific article published on 10 March 2006

Phylogeny-based design of a B-subunit of DNA gyrase and its ATPase domain using a small set of homologous amino acid sequences.

scientific article published on 27 July 2011

Planktonic adaptive evolution to the sea surface temperature in the Neoproterozoic inferred from ancestral NDK of marine cyanobacteria

scientific article published in 2019

Polyadenylation creates the discriminator nucleotide of chicken mitochondrial tRNA(Tyr).

scientific article published on January 1997

Purification and characterization of pepsinogens from the gastric mucosa of African coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, and properties of the major pepsins

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Quest for Ancestors of Eukaryal Cells Based on Phylogenetic Analyses of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases.

scientific article published on 26 November 2016

RNA editing in metazoan mitochondria: staying fit without sex.

scientific article published on June 1997

Reconstructed ancestral enzymes suggest long-term cooling of Earth's photic zone since the Archean

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Relationship among coelacanths, lungfishes, and tetrapods: a phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene sequences

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Repetitive sequences in the lamprey mitochondrial DNA control region and speciation of Lethenteron

scientific article published on 25 June 2010

Robustness of predictions of extremely thermally stable proteins in ancient organisms

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Structural analysis of the plasmid pTA1 isolated from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum.

scientific article published on 22 February 2006

Taurine-containing uridine modifications in tRNA anticodons are required to decipher non-universal genetic codes in ascidian mitochondria.

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The cephalopod Loligo bleekeri mitochondrial genome: multiplied noncoding regions and transposition of tRNA genes

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

The complete mitochondrial genome of Caprella scaura (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidea), with emphasis on the unique gene order pattern and duplicated control region.

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The genetic code of a squid mitochondrial gene

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

The phylogenetic status of Paxillosida (Asteroidea) based on complete mitochondrial DNA sequences

scholarly article by Mioko Matsubara et al published September 2005 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

The possible interplanetary transfer of microbes: assessing the viability of Deinococcus spp. under the ISS Environmental conditions for performing exposure experiments of microbes in the Tanpopo mission.

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Thermostability of ancestral mutants of Caldococcus noboribetus isocitrate dehydrogenase

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Tolerance of anhydrobiotic eggs of the Tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus to extreme environments.

scientific article published on 10 April 2012

Ultralow-density double-layer silica aerogel fabrication for the intact capture of cosmic dust in low-Earth orbits

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Updated mitochondrial phylogeny of Pteriomorph and Heterodont Bivalvia, including deep-sea chemosymbiotic Bathymodiolus mussels, vesicomyid clams and the thyasirid clam Conchocele cf. bisecta

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

[Evolution of genome structure and genetic code of metazoan mitochondria]

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

[Intron and pre-mRNA splicing of bacteria and Archaea]

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

[Origin and evolution of genetic code: an idea on the mechanism of emergence of unusual genetic codes]

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

[RNA editing in transfer RNAs of metazoan mitochondria]

scientific article published on 01 February 1998

tRNA Modification and Genetic Code Variations in Animal Mitochondria

scientific article published on 09 October 2011

tRNA editing in metazoans

scientific article published in Nature

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