All University of Göttingen articles
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NewsGenomes of ‘star algae’ shed light on origin of land plants
An international group of researchers has generated the first genome data of on four filamentous ‘star algae’ of the genus Zygnema - among the most closely related to land plants.
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NewsHigh resolution techniques reveal clues to early microbes in 3.5 billion-year-old biomass
A research team has found new clues about the formation and composition of the 3.5bn year old rocks of Pilbara Craton, which contain traces of the microorganisms that lived at that time.
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NewsNew pieces discovered in the puzzle of first life on Earth
Researchers have found evidence dating to around 3.42 billion years ago of an unprecedentedly diverse carbon cycle involving various microorganisms.
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NewsScientists uncover how coronavirus defends itself against our immune system
A research team identifies “protective switches” in the protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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NewsComplex green organisms emerged a billion years ago
Using modern gene sequencing data, researchers investigating the evolutionary history of morphological complexity in streptophytes have pinpointed the emergence of multicellularity to almost a billion years ago.
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NewsAlgae provide clues about 600 million years of plant evolution
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates 10 billion RNA snippets to identify ’hub genes’.
