Alexander V. Sorokin

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analyses, comparison of gene content across the group, and reconstruction of ancestral gene sets indicate a combination of extensive gene loss and key gene acquisitions via horizontal gene transfer during the coevolution of lactic acid bacteria with their habitats.

TL;DR: Functional and evolutionary patterns in the recently constructed set of 5,873 clusters of predicted orthologs (eukaryotic orthologous groups or KOGs) from seven eukaryosis genomes are examined, revealing a conserved core of largely essential eukARYotic genes as well as major diversification and innovation associated with evolution of eUKaryotic genomes.

TL;DR: Almost one-third of the introns in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are shared with at least one crown group eukaryote; this number indicates that these introns have been conserved through >1.5 billion years of evolution that separate Plas modium from the crown group.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the first phototrophs were anaerobic ancestors of cyanobacteria (“procyanobacteria”) that conducted anoxygenic photosynthesis using a photosystem I-like reaction center, somewhat similar to the heterocysts of modern filamentous cyanob bacteria.

TL;DR: The Deinococcus radiodurans was the first member of this group whose genome was completely sequenced, and a comparative analysis of the two species was performed in this paper.