Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata In the year 1977, the Archaebacteria or Archaea, the third domain of life separate from Bacteria and Eukaryota, was proposed by Carl Woese and George Fox. They had analyzed small subunit ribosomal RNA ( SSU rRNA) oligonucleotide fragments from 13 microbes before establishing this proposal. In the late 1980s, the use of SSU rRNA to describe […]
Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics The second most important greenhouse in the atmosphere – methane is increasing in the atmosphere at an average rate of 10ppb every year. Enteric fermentation is the largest source of methane in the agricultural sector. India has about 13 of the global cattle population and 53% […]
Supriyo Mukherjee, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya Scientific researches have unveiled a novel conformation of gigantic, extrachromosomal DNA in mud-dwelling archaea, as stated in a preprint posted on July 10, 2021, on bioRxiv. Extrachromosomal elements (ECE) comprise structures such as plasmids, megaplasmids, viruses, etc. which give rise to attributes like antibiotic resistance in bacteria. However, as reported in […]
