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Ford Doolittle's Degrees

PhD Biochemistry University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Chemistry University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, W. Ford Doolittle is an evolutionary and molecular biologist. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is also the winner of the 2013 Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the 2017 Killam Prize.

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Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution (1980) (1725)
A kingdom-level phylogeny of eukaryotes based on combined protein data. (2000) (1205)
Prokaryotic evolution in light of gene transfer. (2002) (948)
The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 (2001) (808)
Use of 16S rRNA and rpoB Genes as Molecular Markers for Microbial Ecology Studies (2006) (610)
You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes. (1998) (560)
Microsporidia are related to Fungi: evidence from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II and other proteins. (1999) (516)
Comparison of Bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability. (2003) (501)
Archaea and the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition. (1997) (488)
Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis (2007) (477)
Differences between Tissue-Associated Intestinal Microfloras of Patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis (2006) (476)
Genes in pieces: were they ever together? (1978) (438)
Lateral gene transfer and the origins of prokaryotic groups. (2003) (433)
Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven? (1982) (423)
Is junk DNA bunk? A critique of ENCODE (2013) (363)
Root of the universal tree of life based on ancient aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase gene duplications. (1995) (358)
Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: quantification of horizontal gene transfer events. (2006) (325)
Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family. (1996) (307)
Origin and evolution of the slime molds (Mycetozoa) (1997) (299)
The genome of Salinibacter ruber: convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea. (2005) (295)
Uprooting the tree of life. (2000) (283)
Lateral genomics. (1999) (274)
Lateral gene transfer (2011) (273)
Transformation methods for halophilic archaebacteria. (1989) (271)
Archaea and the Origin(s) of DNA Replication Proteins (1997) (267)
The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny. (1996) (261)
The role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways (2000) (251)
Speculations on the early course of evolution. (1986) (245)
On the origin of prokaryotic species. (2009) (235)
Testing the exon theory of genes: the evidence from protein structure. (1994) (215)
On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermotogales (2009) (213)
Genomics and the bacterial species problem (2006) (203)
Microbial rhodopsins: functional versatility and genetic mobility. (2006) (201)
How big is the iceberg of which organellar genes in nuclear genomes are but the tip? (2003) (190)
Shuttle vectors for the archaebacterium Halobacterium volcanii. (1989) (187)
Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking? (2005) (186)
Computing prokaryotic gene ubiquity: rescuing the core from extinction. (2004) (182)
Irremediable Complexity? (2010) (178)
A possible mitochondrial gene in the early-branching amitochondriate protist Trichomonas vaginalis. (1996) (171)
Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root. (1994) (170)
What Is the Tree of Life? (2016) (168)
How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity (2011) (162)
Intron "sliding" and the diversity of intron positions. (1997) (159)
An Updated and Comprehensive rRNA Phylogeny of (Crown) Eukaryotes Based on Rate-Calibrated Evolutionary Distances (2000) (159)
Molecular Biological Mechanisms of Speciation (1983) (156)
Frequent Recombination in a Saltern Population of Halorubrum (2004) (155)
It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory (2017) (152)
Origins and evolution of isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis in archaea (2004) (148)
Phylogenetic analyses of two "archaeal" genes in thermotoga maritima reveal multiple transfers between archaea and bacteria. (2001) (147)
Characterization of pHV2 from Halobacterium volcanii and its use in demonstrating transformation of an archaebacterium. (1987) (146)
An evaluation of elongation factor 1 alpha as a phylogenetic marker for eukaryotes. (1999) (144)
Searching for species in haloarchaea (2007) (137)
Mutants of Escherichia coli with an Altered Tryptophanyl-Transfer Ribonucleic Acid Synthetase (1968) (135)
Efficient transfection of the archaebacterium Halobacterium halobium (1987) (134)
Environmental genomics of "Haloquadratum walsbyi" in a saltern crystallizer indicates a large pool of accessory genes in an otherwise coherent species (2006) (134)
Reconstructing/Deconstructing the Earliest Eukaryotes How Comparative Genomics Can Help (2001) (128)
Phylogenetic reconstruction and lateral gene transfer. (2004) (126)
The nature of the universal ancestor and the evolution of the proteome. (2000) (122)
Transformation of the archaebacterium Halobacterium volcanii with genomic DNA (1989) (121)
Actinorhodopsin genes discovered in diverse freshwater habitats and among cultivated freshwater Actinobacteria (2009) (117)
Gene Descent, Duplication, and Horizontal Transfer in the Evolution of Glutamyl- and Glutaminyl-tRNA Synthetases (1999) (116)
Archaeal diversity along a soil salinity gradient prone to disturbance. (2005) (116)
Unusual physical organization of the Halobacterium genome (1982) (115)
On the prokaryotic nature of red algal chloroplasts. (1975) (113)
Intragenomic Heterogeneity and Intergenomic Recombination among Haloarchaeal rRNA Genes (2004) (112)
Actinorhodopsins: proteorhodopsin-like gene sequences found predominantly in non-marine environments. (2008) (110)
Kosmotoga olearia gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph isolated from an oil production fluid. (2009) (109)
Molecular evolution: Recent cases of spliceosomal intron gain? (1998) (108)
Evidence that eukaryotic triosephosphate isomerase is of alpha-proteobacterial origin. (1997) (108)
Archaea (2015) (105)
Archaea: narrowing the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. (1995) (102)
Mesotoga prima gen. nov., sp. nov., the first described mesophilic species of the Thermotogales (2012) (98)
Phylogenetic classification and the universal tree. (1999) (97)
Recurrent paralogy in the evolution of archaeal chaperonins (1999) (96)
Recombination in Thermotoga: Implications for Species Concepts and Biogeography (2006) (96)
Microbial genomes: dealing with diversity. (2001) (95)
Are There Bugs in Our Genome? (2001) (93)
Partial sequences of 16S rRNA and the phylogeny of blue-green algae and chloroplasts (1976) (91)
Transcription and excision of a large intron in the tRNATrp gene of an archaebacterium, Halobacterium volcanii. (1985) (90)
The cyanobacterial genome, its expression, and the control of that expression. (1979) (88)
Origin and evolution of eukaryotic chaperonins: phylogenetic evidence for ancient duplications in CCT genes. (2000) (88)
Organizational characteristics and information content of an archaeal genome: 156kb of sequence from Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 (1996) (86)
Archaeal genomics: Do archaea have a mixed heritage? (1998) (85)
Eukaryogenesis, how special really? (2015) (82)
Revolutionary concepts in evolutionary cell biology (1980) (82)
Defining the Core of Nontransferable Prokaryotic Genes: The Euryarchaeal Core (2001) (82)
Phycocyanin synthesis and degradation in the blue-green bacterium Anacystis nidulans (1977) (82)
Mevinolin-resistant mutations identify a promoter and the gene for a eukaryote-like 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase in the archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii. (1992) (81)
Redividing the basidiomycetes on the basis of 5S rRNA sequences (1982) (81)
Phylogenetic analysis of the TATA box binding protein (TBP) gene from Nosema locustae: evidence for a microsporidia-fungi relationship and spliceosomal intron loss. (1999) (81)
The practice of classification and the theory of evolution, and what the demise of Charles Darwin's tree of life hypothesis means for both of them (2009) (81)
High-frequency genomic rearrangements involving archaebacterial repeat sequence elements (1982) (80)
A non‐canonical genetic code in an early diverging eukaryotic lineage. (1996) (80)
Distinguishing between “Function” and “Effect” in Genome Biology (2014) (79)
Detailed physical map and set of overlapping clones covering the genome of the archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii DS2. (1991) (79)
Alternative methods for concatenation of core genes indicate a lack of resolution in deep nodes of the prokaryotic phylogeny. (2007) (78)
Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus (2009) (78)
Suppressive Subtractive Hybridization Detects Extensive Genomic Diversity in Thermotoga maritima (2002) (75)
Gene duplications in evolution of archaeal family B DNA polymerases (1997) (74)
Novel syntaxin gene sequences from Giardia, Trypanosoma and algae: implications for the ancient evolution of the eukaryotic endomembrane system. (2002) (74)
Convergence and constraint in eukaryotic release factor 1 (eRF1) domain 1: the evolution of stop codon specificity. (2002) (69)
Covalently closed circular DNAs in closely related unicellular cyanobacteria (1979) (69)
Widespread and ancient distribution of a noncanonical genetic code in diplomonads. (1997) (69)
Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking (2018) (68)
Visualizing and assessing phylogenetic congruence of core gene sets: a case study of the gamma-proteobacteria. (2006) (68)
Genes-in-pieces revisited (1993) (66)
Cytoskeletal proteins: The evolution of cell division (1998) (66)
Evidence for Existence of “Mesotogas,” Members of the Order Thermotogales Adapted to Low-Temperature Environments (2006) (66)
Archaebacterial heat‐shock proteins (1984) (66)
Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments. (2008) (64)
Evolutionary relationship between dinoflagellates bearing obligate diatom endosymbionts: insight into tertiary endosymbiosis. (2000) (64)
'Candidatus Planktophila limnetica', an actinobacterium representing one of the most numerically important taxa in freshwater bacterioplankton. (2009) (62)
Recovery and evolutionary analysis of complete integron gene cassette arrays from Vibrio (2006) (62)
Gene duplication and the evolution of group II chaperonins: implications for structure and function. (2001) (62)
The chaperonin genes of jakobid and jakobid-like flagellates: implications for eukaryotic evolution. (2002) (62)
Evidence for Golgi bodies in proposed 'Golgi-lacking' lineages (2003) (61)
Archaebacterial genomes: eubacterial form and eukaryotic content. (1994) (59)
Complete nucleotide sequence of the Sulfolobus islandicus multicopy plasmid pRN1. (1996) (58)
The Modern Synthesis in the Light of Microbial Genomics. (2016) (58)
Selfish DNAs with self-restraint (1984) (57)
The number, physical organization and transcription of ribosomal RNA cistrons in an archaebacterium: Halobacterium halobium. (1979) (57)
The impact of reticulate evolution on genome phylogeny. (2008) (57)
Nucleotide sequences of wheat-embryo cytosol 5-S and 5.8-S ribosomal ribonucleic acids. (2005) (56)
Integron Gene Cassettes and Degradation of Compounds Associated with Industrial Waste: The Case of the Sydney Tar Ponds (2009) (55)
Evolution of the RNA polymerase B' subunit gene (rpoB') in Halobacteriales: a complementary molecular marker to the SSU rRNA gene. (2004) (55)
Wheat embryo mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: evidence for its prokaryotic nature. (1977) (53)
Rhodoluna lacicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a planktonic freshwater bacterium with stream-lined genome (2014) (52)
Evidence for the Heterolobosea from Phylogenetic Analysis of Genes Encoding Glyceraldehyde‐3‐Phosphate Dehydrogenase (1996) (50)
Searching for Mesophilic Thermotogales Bacteria: “Mesotogas” in the Wild (2010) (50)
Weighted Genome Trees: Refinements and Applications (2005) (50)
Horizontal transfer of catalase-peroxidase genes between archaea and pathogenic bacteria. (2000) (50)
Transformation of members of the genus Haloarcula with shuttle vectors based on Halobacterium halobium and Haloferax volcanii plasmid replicons (1992) (49)
Origin of antifreeze protein genes: a cool tale in molecular evolution. (1997) (48)
A paradigm gets shifty (1998) (48)
Transcriptional organization of the ribosomal RNA cistrons in Escherichia coli. (1971) (48)
ACID: annotation of cassette and integron data (2009) (48)
Ancient lateral gene transfer in the evolution of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. (2006) (47)
Metagenomics and the Units of Biological Organization (2010) (47)
Molecular Phylogeny of Three Oxymonad Genera: Pyrsonympha, Dinenympha and Oxymonas (2003) (46)
Class I release factors in ciliates with variant genetic codes. (2001) (46)
Evolutionary plasticity of methionine biosynthesis. (2005) (45)
Complete nucleotide sequence of the 23S rRNA gene of the Cyanobacterium, Anacystis nidulans. (1984) (44)
Genes for tRNAIle and tRNAAla in the spacer between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes of a blue-green alga: strong homology to chloroplast tRNA genes and tRNA genes of the E. coli rrnD gene cluster (1983) (43)
Postmaturational Cleavage of 23s Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid and Its Metabolic Control in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans (1973) (43)
Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of syntaxin genes from parasitic protozoa. (2004) (43)
Symbiosis becoming permanent: Survival of the luckiest (2015) (42)
Mutational Analysis of Dark Endogenous Metabolism in the Blue-Green Bacterium Anacystis nidulans (1974) (42)
Sulfolobus islandicus plasmids pRN1 and pRN2 share distant but common evolutionary ancestry (1998) (42)
Bacterial origin for the isoprenoid biosynthesis enzyme HMG-CoA reductase of the archaeal orders Thermoplasmatales and Archaeoglobales. (2001) (42)
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase of Sulfolobus solfataricus: DNA sequence, phylogeny, expression in Escherichia coli of the hmgA gene, and purification and kinetic characterization of the gene product (1997) (41)
Multilevel Selection Theory and the Evolutionary Functions of Transposable Elements (2015) (41)
Cyanobacterial evolution: results of 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequence analyses. (1979) (41)
Evidence of independent gene duplications during the evolution of archaeal and eukaryotic family B DNA polymerases. (1998) (40)
Coral-mucus-associated Vibrio integrons in the Great Barrier Reef: genomic hotspots for environmental adaptation (2011) (40)
The 5S ribosomal RNAs of Paracoccus denitrificans and Prochloron. (1982) (39)
Population Genomics: How Bacterial Species Form and Why They Don't Exist (2012) (39)
U2 and U6 snRNA genes in the microsporidian Nosema locustae: evidence for a functional spliceosome (1998) (39)
Genome mapping in halobacteria. (1989) (39)
Fun with genealogy. (1997) (38)
Modes of genome evolution (1980) (38)
The Origin and Function of Intervening Sequences in DNA: A Review (1987) (38)
Active self-splicing group I introns in 23S rRNA genes of hyperthermophilic bacteria, derived from introns in eukaryotic organelles (2003) (37)
Control of gene expression in blue-green algae (1975) (37)
Evolutionary biology: A ratchet for protein complexity (2012) (36)
5S rRNA sequences from eight basidiomycetes and fungi imperfecti. (1983) (36)
Have archaeal genes contributed to bacterial virulence? (2004) (36)
Nucleotide sequences of Acanthamoeba castellanii 5S and 5.8S ribosomal ribonucleic acids: phylogenetic and comparative structural analyses. (1981) (36)
Characterization of a gene involved in histidine biosynthesis in Halobacterium (Haloferax) volcanii: isolation and rapid mapping by transformation of an auxotroph with cosmid DNA (1990) (36)
Lateral gene transfer and phylogenetic assignment of environmental fosmid clones. (2005) (35)
Localizing genes on the map of the genome of Haloferax volcanii, one of the Archaea. (1992) (35)
Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis and Maturation in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans (1972) (35)
Unusual ribosomal RNA gene organization in copepods of the genus Calanus. (1987) (35)
Unique species of 5 S, 18 S, and 26 S ribosomal RNA in wheat mitochondria (1976) (35)
Natural selection through survival alone, and the possibility of Gaia (2014) (35)
The real ‘domains’ of life (2005) (34)
Diversity of bacteriorhodopsins in different hypersaline waters from a single Spanish saltern. (2003) (34)
Trichomonas vaginalis possesses a gene encoding the essential spliceosomal component, PRP8. (1999) (34)
Life and life only: a radical alternative to life definitionism (2018) (34)
The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes (2017) (32)
Why introns-in-pieces? (1993) (32)
Eradicating typological thinking in prokaryotic systematics and evolution. (2009) (32)
The Genome of Thermosipho africanus TCF52B: Lateral Genetic Connections to the Firmicutes and Archaea (2009) (31)
Molecular Phylogenetics and the Perennial Problem of Homology (2016) (30)
The attempt on the life of the Tree of Life: science, philosophy and politics (2010) (30)
Genes for tryptophan biosynthesis in the archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii. (1990) (30)
Structure of the archaebacterial transposable element ISH50. (1983) (30)
Genome Sequence of the Mesophilic Thermotogales Bacterium Mesotoga prima MesG1.Ag.4.2 Reveals the Largest Thermotogales Genome To Date (2012) (30)
On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk (2017) (29)
Variable arrangement of 5S ribosomal genes within the ribosomal DNA repeats of arthropods. (1992) (29)
ISH51: a large, degenerate family of insertion sequence-like elements in the genome of the archaebacterium, Halobacterium volcanii. (1986) (28)
Methionine aminopeptidase-1: the MAP of the mitochondrion? (1996) (27)
Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence (2007) (27)
Synthesis of 5S Ribosomal RNA in Escherichia coli after Rifampicin Treatment (1970) (27)
Evidence for the early divergence of tryptophanyl- and tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases (1997) (26)
What introns have to tell us: hierarchy in genome evolution. (1987) (26)
Lateral Transfer of an EF-1α Gene Origin and Evolution of the Large Subunit of ATP Sulfurylase in Eubacteria (2002) (26)
Getting “function” right (2014) (26)
Slippery introns and globin gene evolution (1993) (26)
Complete Nucleotide Sequence of the Sulfolobus islandicus Multicopy Plasmid pRN 1 (1996) (25)
Making the Most of Clade Selection (2017) (24)
An archaebacterial homolog of pelota, a meiotic cell division protein in eukaryotes. (1996) (23)
Microbial neopleomorphism (2013) (23)
Biodiversity: Something new under the sea (2002) (23)
Evolution: Archaea and eukaryotes versus bacteria? (1994) (22)
Patterns and prediction in microbial oceanography (2007) (22)
Phage-host relationships in certain strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. (1966) (22)
Getting clear about the F-word in genomics (2020) (22)
Eukaryotes first: how could that be? (2015) (22)
Hierarchical Approaches to Genome Evolution (1988) (21)
Genes are things you have whether you want them or not. (1981) (21)
Lessons from the Aeropyrum pernix genome. (1999) (21)
The generality of Constructive Neutral Evolution (2018) (21)
We simply cannot go on being so vague about ‘function’ (2018) (20)
The trouble with (group II) introns (2014) (20)
Genes for tryptophan biosynthesis in the halophilic archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii: the trpDFEG cluster (1992) (20)
Nucleotide sequences of 5S ribosomal RNA from four oomycete and chytrid water molds. (1982) (20)
Cyanobacterial plasmids: Their widespread occurrence, and the existence of regions of homology between plasmids in the same and different species (1980) (20)
Archaebacterial genomics: The complete genome sequence of Methanococcus jannaschii (1997) (19)
Making Evolutionary Sense of Gaia. (2019) (19)
Neutral evolution of cellular phenotypes. (2019) (19)
Selfish DNA: The best defense is a good offense (1996) (18)
Targeting clusters of transferred genes in Thermotoga maritima. (2003) (18)
Leucine biosynthesis in the blue-green bacterium Anacystis nidulans (1975) (18)
Comparative sequence analysis as an approach to evaluating structure, function, and evolution of 5S and 5.8S ribosomal RNAs. (1982) (17)
Nucleotide sequence of Crithidia fasciculata cytosol 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid. (1980) (17)
Sequence studies on 16S ribosomal RNA from a blue-green alga (1975) (17)
Evolutionary analysis of the hisCGABdFDEHI gene cluster from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 (1997) (16)
5S rRNA sequences from four marine invertebrates and implications for base pairing models of metazoan sequences. (1983) (16)
P elements in Drosophila: selection at many levels. (1988) (16)
MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA INDICATING AN ENDOSYMBIOTIC ORIGIN FOR PLASTIDS * (1981) (16)
Microbial Diversity: A Bonanza of Phyla (2015) (16)
Complex histories of genes encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoenzymeA reductase. (2006) (15)
At the core of the Archaea. (1996) (15)
Genes for transfer RNAs in Halobacterium volcanii (1986) (15)
TRANSFORMATION OF A BOP‐HOP‐SOP‐I‐SOP‐II‐Halobacterium halobium MUTANT TO BOP+: EFFECTS OF BACTERIORHODOPSIN PHOTOACTIVATION ON CELLULAR PROTON FLUXES AND SWIMMING BEHAVIOR (1992) (15)
Microbial Evolution: Stalking the Wild Bacterial Species (2008) (15)
Evolution: Reducible Complexity — The Case for Bacterial Flagella (2007) (15)
Horizontal persistence and the complexity hypothesis (2019) (15)
RNA-mediated gene conversion? (1985) (15)
Nucleotide sequence of the 5 S rRNA gene and flanking regions in the cyanobacterium, Anacystis nidulans (1984) (14)
Comment on "Does constructive neutral evolution play an important role in the origin of cellular complexity?" DOI 10.1002/bies.201100010. (2011) (14)
Gene content and organization of a 281-kbp contig from the genome of the extremely thermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus solfataricus P2. (2000) (13)
Transformation of halophilic Archaea (1995) (12)
Reply to Lane and Martin: Being and becoming eukaryotes (2015) (12)
Novel Ribonucleic Acid Species Accumulated in the Dark in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans (1974) (12)
AQU I: A more easily purified isoschizomer of AVA I (1980) (12)
Introns, the broken transposons. (1994) (12)
Concerted evolution in protists: Recent homogenization of a polyubiquitin gene in Trichomonas vaginalis (1995) (11)
Construction of composite transposons for halophilic Archaea. (1994) (11)
Progress in developing the genetics of the halobacteria. (1992) (11)
The origins of introns (1991) (10)
Evolution: Two Domains of Life or Three? (2020) (10)
The spliceosomal catalytic core arose in the RNA world… or did it? (2013) (10)
Ribosomal RNA homologies and the evolution of the filamentous blue-green bacteria (1978) (10)
Molecular evolution. Genes-in-pieces revisited. (1993) (10)
Microbial Evolution: Xenology (Apparently) Trumps Paralogy (2016) (10)
What are the archaebacteria and why are they important? (1992) (10)
The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function. (2021) (9)
Phage evolution: New worlds of genomic diversity (2003) (9)
2 What Is a Prokaryote (2013) (9)
Homologies in processing and sequence between the 23S ribosomal ribonucleic acids of Paracoccus denitrificans and Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides (1979) (9)
'Species' without species. (2021) (9)
A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus. (2007) (8)
Sixty years of genome biology (2013) (8)
Precursor of 5S Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans (1974) (7)
The evolution of DNA sequences: edited by B. C. Clarke, A. Robertson and A. J. Jeffreys The Royal Society, London, 1986. £29.00 (vii + 354 pages) ISBN 0 85403 262 2 (1987) (7)
Linked Genes for Calmodulin and E2 Ubiquitin‐Conjugating Enzyme in Trichomonas vaginalis (1996) (7)
Methods for evaluating exon-protein correspondences (1995) (7)
An Archaebacterial elF‐1A: new grist for the mill (1995) (6)
Mutationism, not Lamarckism, captures the novelty of CRISPR–Cas (2019) (6)
Tubulins in Trichomonas vaginalis: Molecular Characterization of α-Tubulin Genes, Posttranslational Modifications, and Homology Modeling of the Tubulin Dimer (2001) (6)
Repeated Sequences in the Genomes of Halobacteria (1982) (6)
Bacterial evolution. (1988) (6)
Rethinking the Origin of Eukaryotes. (1999) (6)
CHAPTER 13 – Genome Structure in Archaebacteria (1985) (6)
Sequencing the Genome of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 (1998) (5)
Speciation without Species: A Final Word (2019) (5)
Sequence of 5S ribosomal RNA gene regions and their products in the archaebacterium Halobacterium volcanii (2004) (5)
W. Ford Doolittle (2004) (5)
An infB-Homolog in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (1996) (5)
Carl R. Woese (1928–2012) (2013) (5)
Insertion sequences on plasmid pHV1 of Haloferax volcanii (1993) (4)
Two thraustochytrid 5S ribosomal RNAs. (1982) (4)
Differences between Crohn ' s disease and ulcerative 1 colitis patients in tissue-associated intestinal microflora 2 3 Running Title : Tissue-associated flora in inflammatory bowel disease 4 5 (2006) (4)
The endosymbiont hypothesis. (1981) (4)
The Evolutionary Significance of the Archaebacteria (1987) (4)
How microbes “jeopardize” the modern synthesis (2019) (4)
Sol's World, the RNA World, Our World (1993) (4)
Systematics of basidiomycetes based on 5S rRNA sequences and other data (reply) (1983) (4)
Molecular evolution. Why introns-in-pieces? (1993) (3)
Outside Forces Helped Shape the Thermotoga Metagenome (2006) (3)
Can commercial protection be good for research? (2002) (3)
Nonribosomal Nature of Novel, Stable Ribonucleic Acid Species Accumulated by Blue-Green Bacteria (1976) (3)
Evolutionary molecular biology: where is it going? (1982) (3)
Site‐specific restriction endonuclease from the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. MAC PCC 8009 (1985) (3)
Archaea and the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition (1997) (3)
Thinking laterally about genes (2002) (2)
Transposable Elements in Archaebacteria (1983) (2)
Some Broader Evolutionary Issues Which Emerge from Contemporary Molecular Biological Data (1984) (2)
All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution (2022) (2)
AQUI: a more easily purified isoschizomer of AVAI. (1980) (2)
Rethinking the Tree of Life: Even though lateral gene transfers tend to undermine this beloved metaphor, the underlying theory of evolution is very much intact (2015) (2)
The Root of the Tree: Lateral Gene Transfer and the Nature of the Domains (2007) (2)
Adaptive Regeneration Across Scales: Replicators and Interactors from Limbs to Forests (2021) (2)
Some thoughts on the tree of life. (2003) (2)
5 S ribosomal RNA genes and the AluI family: Evolutionary and functional significance of a region of strong homology (1981) (2)
Characterization of pHV 2 from Halobacterium volcanii and its use in demonstrating transformation of an archaebacterium ( plasmid / nucleotide sequence / copy number / curing / PEG-mediated spheroplast transformation ) (2)
PLASMIDS IN CYANOBACTERIA1 (1980) (2)
The spliceosomal catalytic core arose in the RNA world… or did it? (2013) (1)
Archaebacteria coming of age (1985) (1)
How Has Microbiology Changed over the Past 25 Years? (2018) (1)
Microbial evolution: The new synthesis (1999) (1)
THE ORIGIN AND FUNCTION OF INTERVENING SEQUENCES (1987) (1)
How natural a kind is "eukaryote?". (2014) (1)
Phage Evolution: New Worlds of Genomic Diversity Dispatch (2003) (0)
Could this pandemic usher in evolution’s next major transition? (2020) (0)
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy (2022) (0)
Sixty years of genome biology (2013) (0)
On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk (2017) (0)
Heating the Home: Central Heating Systems (1945) (0)
The generality of Constructive Neutral Evolution (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Conference (1980) (0)
Genome Structure and Evolution (2016) (0)
Life and life only: a radical alternative to life definitionism (2018) (0)
It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory (2016) (0)
Letter from W. Ford Doolittle to Joshua Lederberg (1962) (0)
Community-level evolutionary processes: Linking community genetics with replicator-interactor theory (2022) (0)
Philosophy, who needs it? Philosophy of Biology Peter Godfrey-Smith (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; 2013) ISBN: 9780691140018 (2015) (0)
We simply cannot go on being so vague about ‘function’ (2018) (0)
The 74th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology on Evolution: The Molecular Landscape was dedicated to Charles Darwin on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin (2010) (0)
ReviewReconstructing / Deconstructing the Earliest Eukaryotes : How Comparative Genomics (2001) (0)
Microbial neopleomorphism (2012) (0)
The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes (2017) (0)
Sequencing and Analysis of the Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome (1996) (0)
Crystal structure from the mobile metagenome of Cole Harbour Salt Marsh: Integron Cassette Protein HFX_CASS3 (2009) (0)
The Endosymbiotic Origin Of Organelles: Compelling Support From Ribosomal RNA Sequence Data (1983) (0)
Crystal structure from the mobile metagenome of Halifax Harbour Sewage Outfall: Integron Cassette Protein HFX_CASS2 (2009) (0)
Physical Mapping and Gene Transfer Methods for Halobacterium (Haloferax) Volcanii (1991) (0)
Crystal structure from the mobile metagenome of Halifax Harbour Sewage Outfall: Integron Cassette Protein HFX_CASS4 (2009) (0)
Nucleotide sequence of Crithidia fasdculata cytosol SS ribosomal ribonucldc acid (2005) (0)
Evolutions’ next major transition (2020) (0)
MLS3: A New Type of Multilevel Selection (2020) (0)
An Evaluation of Elongation Factor 1 (cid:97) as a Phylogenetic Marker for Eukaryotes (0)
Mutationism, not Lamarckism, captures the novelty of CRISPR–Cas (2019) (0)
Can Microbial Communities Regenerate? (2022) (0)
Book Review:Prochloron: A Microbial Engima. Ralph A. Lewin, Lana Cheng (1991) (0)
Structure from the mobile metagenome of North West Arm Sewage Outfall: Integron Cassette Protein Hfx_Cass5 (2009) (0)
Genomes and evolution. (1998) (0)
Postmaturational Cleavage of23sRibosomal Ribonucleic AcidandItsMetabolic Control in theBlue-Green AlgaAnacystis nidulans (1973) (0)
Actinorhodopsin genes discovered diverse in freshwater habitats and among cultivated Actinobacteria (2021) (0)
Development of Shuttle Vectors for Halobacteria. (1989) (0)
Mesotoga prima gen. nov., sp. nov., the first described mesophilic species of the Thermotogales (2012) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. (2001) (0)
What we Know Now about the Evolutionary Origins and Roles of Introns (1993) (0)
GenesforTryptophan Biosynthesis intheHalophilic Archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii: thetrpDFEGCluster (1992) (0)
a colioquiwum eitld " Tempo and Mode in Evoluton " organized by Walter (0)
The Evolution of the Genome (1982) (0)
Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Microbial Evolution. Thirty-Second Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology, Held at The University of Edinburgh, September 1981.M. J. Carlile , J. F. Collins , B. E. B. Moseley (1982) (0)
The Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome project (vol 389, pg 88, 1996) (1996) (0)
Molecular Phylogenetics and the Perennial Problem of Homology (2016) (0)
Fascinations of the Third Domain (2001) (0)
rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org Eukaryotes first: how could that be? (2015) (0)
The Sulfolobus Genome Project: Process and Progress (1996) (0)
StudiesMarkers for Microbial Ecology Genes as rpoB Use of 16S rRNA and (2014) (0)
Response : Introns and the Origin of Protein-Coding Genes (1995) (0)
23.7.2 Role of gene duplication in evolution1 (1989) (0)
Erratum: The Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome project (FEBS letters 389 (1996) (88-91)) (PII S001457939600525X) (1996) (0)
Characterization of pHV2 from Halobacterium volcanii (0)
Craig Venter’s New Life: The Realization of Some Thought Experiments in Biological Ontology (2012) (0)

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