A new paper from the group proposes an ecosystem model for the origin and evolution of prokaryotic pangenomes.
Read MoreA new paper from the group proposes an ecosystem model for the origin and evolution of prokaryotic pangenomes.
Read MoreThis is a short video to accompany our recent paper, published here: http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201740 The citation is: McInerney, J.O., McNally, A and O’Connell, M.J. (2017) Why Prokaryotes Have Pangenomes. Nature Microbiology 2, 17040 (doi:10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.40). Please use the social media buttons to share.
Read MoreThe first paper from the lab in 2017 [1] is a small comment on the discovery of more unusual archaebacterial genomes in sediment samples from a variety of locations around the world. In this paper, I outlined the discovery and made a small number of observations about the work. The ASGARD group are the closest non-eukaryotic […]
Read MoreOur latest paper has just been published. It is on the evolution of Escherichia coli, which is a pathogenic bacterium. The work was led by Dr. Alan McNally, who has just moved from Nottingham Trent University to Birmingham University. The work centres on the analysis of what we call the pangenome of this bacterium. There is a lot […]
Read MoreSome years ago, it occurred to me and indeed to others that the monophyly of the three groups that constitute the three domains of life might not be as robust as people had said. My PhD thesis was on ribosomal RNA phylogeny of environmental sequences and depending on the dataset I was using, I was […]
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