Karol Szafranski

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: The killifish Nothobranchius furzeri is the shortest-lived vertebrate that can be bred in the laboratory and an intra-species Y chromosome polymorphism representing-in real time-different stages of sex chromosome formation that display features of early mammalian XY evolution "in action" is uncovered.

TL;DR: A transcriptome-wide map of novel candidate TISs derived as part of the study will shed further light on the way in which human proteome diversity is influenced by alternative translation initiation and regulation.

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: The first genome sequences of two closely phylogenetically related dermatophytes, Arthroderma benhamiae and Trichophyton verrucosum, both of which induce highly inflammatory infections in humans, are reported, enlighten the genetic basis of fundamental and putatively virulence-related traits of dermatophyts, advancing future research on these medically important pathogens.