Jeffrey G. Williams

TL;DR: A proteome-based phylogeny shows that the amoebozoa diverged from the animal–fungal lineage after the plant–animal split, but Dictyostelium seems to have retained more of the diversity of the ancestral genome than have plants, animals or fungi.

TL;DR: It is shown that SPARC is related structurally and antigenically to an Mr 43,000 glycoprotein secreted in large amounts by bovine aortic endothelial cells as part of a ‘culture shock’ response to in vitro conditions promoting their proliferation and migration.

TL;DR: A significant number of the genes show higher similarities to genes of vertebrates than to those of other fully sequenced eukaryotes, which strengthens the view that the evolutionary position of D. discoideum is located before the branching of metazoa and fungi but after the divergence of the plant kingdom.

TL;DR: Using size-fractionated subsets of cDNA from the first finger stage, two sets of gridded libraries were constructed for cDNA sequencing and the ESTs represent approximately 40% of genes expressed in late development, assuming that the non-redundant ESTs correspond to independent genes.

TL;DR: The close linkage of α - and β-globin genes in Xenopus provides evidence that vertebrate α- andβ- globin genes evolved by tandem duplication of a single primordial globin gene.