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Convergence of human-great ape enteric eukaryotic viromes in central African forest and in a ZOO
Full title: Higher convergence of human-great ape enteric eukaryotic viromes in central African forest than in a European zoo: a One...
Jun 21, 2023
Resistance of Omicron subvariants BA.2.75.2, BA.4.6, and BQ.1.1 to neutralizing antibodies
Nat Commun. Planas D, Bruel T, Staropoli I, Guivel-Benhassine F, Porrot F, Maes P, Grzelak L, Prot M, Mougari S, Planchais C, Puech J,...
Feb 14, 2023


Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery
Nature Edgar, R.C., Taylor, J., Lin, V. et al Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their...
Jan 26, 2022
A Minimal yet Flexible Likelihood Framework to Assess Correlated Evolution
Systematic Biology Behdenna A, Godfroid M, Petot P, Pothier J, Lambert A, Achaz G An evolutionary process is reflected in the sequence...
Nov 2, 2021
Nutrient conditions are primary drivers of bacterial capsule maintenance in Klebsiella
Proc. R. Soc. B Buffet A, Rocha EPC, Rendueles O The fitness cost associated with the production of bacterial capsules is considered to...
Mar 3, 2021
Systematic detection of brain protein-coding genes under positive selection during primate evolution
--- Dumas G, Malesys S, Bourgeron T The human brain differs from that of other primates, but the genetic basis of these differences...
Jan 13, 2021
Community diversity and habitat structure shape the repertoire of extracellular proteins in bacteria
Nature Communications Marc Garcia-Garcera & Eduardo P. C. Rocha We test the hypothesis that the frequency and cost of extracellular...
Feb 6, 2020
Atypical organizations and epistatic interactions of CRISPRs and cas clusters in genomes
Nucleic Acids Research Aude Bernheim, David Bikard, Marie Touchon, Eduardo P C Rocha Prokaryotes use CRISPR–Cas systems for adaptive...
Jan 24, 2020


Unlinked rRNA genes are widespread among bacteria and archaea
The ISME Journal Tess E. Brewer, Mads Albertsen, Arwyn Edwards, Rasmus H. Kirkegaard, Eduardo P. C. Rocha & Noah Fierer Ribosomes are...
Nov 11, 2019
Incorporating alignment uncertainty into Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap
Bioinformatics Chang JM, Floden EW, Herrero J, Gascuel O, Di Tommaso P, Notredame C Motivation Most evolutionary analyses are based on...
Feb 6, 2019
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