The ubiquity of satellite DNA (satDNA) sequences has raised much controversy over the abundance of divergent monomer variants and the long-time nucleotide sequence stability observed for many satDNA ...

Plants use leucine-rich repeat receptor kinases (LRR-RKs) to sense sequence diverse peptide hormones at the cell surface. A 3.0-Å crystal structure of the LRR-RK GSO1/SGN3 regulating Casparian strip ...

BETHESDA, Md., Wed., Dec. 8, 2004 – An international research consortium has found that chickens and humans share more than half of their genes, but that their DNA sequences diverge in ways that may ...

In their search for sources of genetic novelty, researchers find that some “orphan genes” with no obvious ancestors evolve out of junk DNA, contrary to old assumptions. The evolution of new genes ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes.