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Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution |
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User ID: 64032546 Germany 10/14/2014 03:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Extreme adaptations of species often cause such significant changes that their evolutionary history is difficult to reconstruct. Zoologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland have now discovered a new parasite species that represents the missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites. Researches are now able to understand for the first time the evolution of these parasites, causing disease in humans and animals. The study has been published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Parasites use their hosts to simplify their own lives. In order to do so, they evolved features that are so extreme that it is often impossible to compare them to other species. The evolution of these extreme adaptations is often impossible to reconstruct. The research group lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Basel has now discovered the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites, the microsporidia, has evolved. The team was supported in their efforts by scientists from Sweden and the U.S. Microsporidia are a large group of extreme parasites that invade humans and animals and cost great damage for health care systems and in agriculture; over 1,200 species are known. They live inside their host's cells and have highly specialized features: They are only able to reproduce inside the host's cells, they have the smallest known genome of all organisms with a cell nucleus (eukaryotes) and they posses no mitochondria of their own (the cell's power plant). In addition, they developed a specialized infection apparatus, the polar tube, which they use to insert themselves into the cells of their host. Due to their phenomenal high molecular evolution rate, genome analysis has so far been rather unsuccessful: Their great genomic divergence from all other known organisms further complicates the study of their evolutionary lineage. [ link to www.alphagalileo.org] Last Edited by Face Palmer on 10/14/2014 03:55 AM"The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."
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Face Palmer (OP)
User ID: 1149868 Germany 10/14/2014 07:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."
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worm man
User ID: 15828885 Australia 10/14/2014 07:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution very interesting subject |
Face Palmer (OP)
User ID: 1149868 Germany 10/14/2014 09:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution very interesting subject
Quoting: worm man Yes but its getting overrun by ebola threads "The world will soon wake up to the reality that everyone is broke and can collect nothing from the bankrupt, who are owed unlimited amounts by the insolvent, who are attempting to make late payments on a bank holiday in the wrong country, with an unacceptable currency, against defaulted collateral, of which nobody is sure who holds title."
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
The woman who is not pursued sets up the doctrine that pursuit is offensive to her sex, and wants to make it a felony. No genuinely attractive woman has any such desire. - H.L. Mencken, In Defense Of Women |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 63926353 United Kingdom 10/14/2014 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution perhaps ebola is the missing link |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27940996 United States 10/27/2014 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 52921431 United States 10/28/2014 12:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Interesting, thanks
The microsporidia infection Nosema ceranae is a huge contributor to honey bee decline. |
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drivemesane User ID: 50667838 Canada 10/28/2014 12:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Very cool find OP |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 64362606 United States 10/28/2014 12:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution perhaps ebola is the missing link Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63926353 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6381279 United States 10/28/2014 12:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Cool...
Do they have cartoons too?
Like the rest of these "Evolution", "Missing Link" retards? ? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 6381279 United States 10/28/2014 01:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Due to their phenomenal high molecular evolution rate, genome analysis has so far been rather unsuccessful: Their great genomic divergence from all other known organisms further complicates the study of their evolutionary lineage. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Looks sorta like more Cartoon science?
They can't seem to track it because "Their great genomic divergence"?
So...
Make up a cool story, and some cartoons, and your good to go?
Maybe Bath-House-Barry will share his Nobel Beast Prize? ? |
Whoop-D-Do
User ID: 64598791 Australia 10/28/2014 01:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution This is interesting- thank you. Have reading up on and dealing with fungus lately, at first not by choice- got caught up in a bad rental riddled with it. After some time and research i have to say i have a new appreciation for it.
Fascinating stuff. If i had my time over i would study Microbiology. |
dAhLiA.13
User ID: 1678879 United States 01/17/2019 02:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Liberal Republican. ESTP personality. |
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Spur-Man
User ID: 75814481 Australia 01/18/2019 05:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Cool...
Do they have cartoons too?
Like the rest of these "Evolution", "Missing Link" retards? ?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6381279 Go watch Kent Hovind you anti-science fuckwit. |
C.K. Dexter Haven
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76994111 United States 01/18/2019 05:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Amazing thread |
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Tainted Meat
User ID: 76539860 Finland 01/18/2019 05:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites explains evolution Maybe it can be weaponized... The falt earth is here and the buttering of human beans has begined! Right or wrong, it makes me LOL! The end is nigh when the gaysir holes start erupting! |
Deep State
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