Searching for new branches on the tree of life

A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet

(2014) Denis A. Malyshev et al.   NATURE

Stop codon reassignments in the wild

(2014) N. N. Ivanova et al.   SCIENCE

Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

(2013) Christian Rinke et al.   NATURE

Pandoraviruses: Amoeba Viruses with Genomes Up to 2.5 Mb Reaching That of Parasitic Eukaryotes

(2013) N. Philippe et al.   SCIENCE

Genomically Recoded Organisms Expand Biological Functions

(2013) M. J. Lajoie et al.   SCIENCE

DNA sequencing with nanopores

(2012) Grégory F Schneider et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fermentation, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism in Multiple Uncultivated Bacterial Phyla

(2012) K. C. Wrighton et al.   SCIENCE

Hydrogen, metals, bifurcating electrons, and proton gradients: The early evolution of biological energy conservation

(2011) William F. Martin   FEBS LETTERS

Stalking the Fourth Domain in Metagenomic Data: Searching for, Discovering, and Interpreting Novel, Deep Branches in Marker Gene Phylogenetic Trees

(2011) Dongying Wu et al.   PLoS One

Real-Time DNA Sequencing from Single Polymerase Molecules

(2008) J. Eid et al.   SCIENCE