What Was Old Is New Again: The Pennate Diatom (Gaillon) Simonsen in the Multi-Omic Age.

The marine pennate diatom has long been known for its characteristic blue pigment marennine, which is responsible for the greening of invertebrate gills, a natural phenomenon of great importance for the oyster industry. For two centuries, this taxon was considered unique; however, the recent description of a new blue species revealed unsuspected biodiversity. Marennine-like pigments are natural blue dyes that display various biological activities-e.

Mosaic translation hypothesis: chimeric polypeptides produced via multiple ribosomal frameshifting as a basis for adaptability.

How many different proteins can be produced from a single spliced transcript? Genome annotation projects overlook the coding potential of reading frames other than that of the reference open reading frames (refORFs). Recently, alternative open reading frames (altORFs) and their translational products, alternative proteins, have been shown to carry out important functions in various organisms. AltORFs overlapping refORFs or other altORFs in a different reading frame may be involved in one fundamental mechanism so far overlooked.

Draft Genome Sequence of TLO3, Isolated from Olive Tree Rhizosphere Soil.

In this paper, we report Bacillus subtilis TLO3, which was isolated from olive tree rhizosphere and exhibits high amylolytic activity. The genome of Bacillus subtilis TLO3 contains 4,071 protein-coding sequences carried on one chromosome (4,232,155 bp) with an average G+C content of 44.1% and 119 RNA molecules.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Moderately Heat-Tolerant Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis bv. diacetylactis Strain GL2 from Algerian Dromedary Milk.

Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis bv. diacetylactis GL2 is a moderately thermotolerant lactic acid bacterium isolated from dromedary raw milk.