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Rebecca A. Zufall
Researcher at University of Houston
Publications - 44
Citations - 1397
Rebecca A. Zufall is an academic researcher from University of Houston. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tetrahymena & Gene. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 40 publications receiving 1222 citations. Previous affiliations of Rebecca A. Zufall include Duke University & Smith College.
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On the immortality of television sets: "function" in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE.
TL;DR: The ENCODE results were predicted by one of its authors to necessitate the rewriting of textbooks and it is detailed the many logical and methodological transgressions involved in assigning functionality to almost every nucleotide in the human genome.
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Genetic changes associated with floral adaptation restrict future evolutionary potential
TL;DR: What appear to be the initial stages of degeneration in the anthyocyanin pigment pathway associated with an adaptive change from blue to red flowers in the morning glory Ipomoea quamoclit are described.
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Rapid diversification of mating systems in ciliates
Sujal Phadke,Rebecca A. Zufall +1 more
TL;DR: There have been many transitions in the number of mating types, and the requirement of nuclear reorganization may be a more important factor than genetic exchange in determining the optimum number of mate types in a species.
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Beyond the "Code": A Guide to the Description and Documentation of Biodiversity in Ciliated Protists (Alveolata, Ciliophora).
Alan Warren,David J. Patterson,Micah Dunthorn,John C. Clamp,Undine E.M. Achilles-Day,Erna Aescht,Saleh A. Al-Farraj,Saleh Al-Quraishy,Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid,Martin Carr,John G. Day,Marc Dellinger,Hamed A. El-Serehy,Yangbo Fan,Feng Gao,Shan Gao,Jun Gong,Renu Gupta,Xiaozhong Hu,Komal Kamra,Gaytha A. Langlois,Xiaofeng Lin,Diana L. Lipscomb,Christopher S. Lobban,Pierangelo Luporini,Denis H. Lynn,Honggang Ma,Miroslav Macek,Jacqueline Mackenzie-Dodds,Seema Makhija,Robert I. Mansergh,Mercedes Martín-Cereceda,Nettie Mcmiller,David J. S. Montagnes,Svetlana Nikolaeva,Svetlana Nikolaeva,Geoffrey Odhiambo Ong'ondo,Blanca Pérez-Uz,Jasmine Purushothaman,Pablo Quintela-Alonso,Johana Rotterová,Luciana F. Santoferrara,Chen Shao,Zhuo Shen,Xinlu Shi,Weibo Song,Thorsten Stoeck,Antonietta La Terza,Adriana Vallesi,Mei Wang,Thomas Weisse,Krzysztof Wiackowski,Lei Wu,Kuidong Xu,Zhenzhen Yi,Rebecca A. Zufall,Sabine Agatha +56 more
TL;DR: The present paper reviews issues relating to the taxonomy of ciliates and presents specific recommendations for best practice in the observation and documentation of their biodiversity.
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Genome Architecture Drives Protein Evolution in Ciliates
TL;DR: A model whereby genome architecture-specifically chromosomal processing, amitosis within macronuclei, and epigenetics-allows ciliates to explore protein space in a novel manner is proposed, predicting that examination of diverse eukaryotes will reveal additional evidence of the impact of genome architecture on molecular evolution.