Vikram Alva
- Latent endogenous viral elements drive active infection and inheritance in a multicellular host
2025/09/15 by Carole Duchêne, Rory J. Craig, Cláudia Martinho +7 · 1 voice · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
2025/04/04 by Theopi Rados, Olivia S. Leland, Pedro Escudeiro +15 · 1 voice · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing #Cellular Mechanics and Interactions #Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Repeated co-option of HMG-box genes for sex determination in brown algae and animals
2024/03/21 by R. Luthringer, Morgane Raphalen, C Guerra +10 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities #Plant Reproductive Biology #Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- On the origin of the histone fold
2007/03/28 by Vikram Alva, Moritz Ammelburg, Johannes Söding +1 · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics #Protein Structure and Dynamics #DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- Histones predate the split between bacteria and archaea
2018/12/05 by Vikram Alva, Andrei N. Lupas · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology #Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Histone #Biology #Archaea #Nucleosome #Histone-modifying enzymes #Genetics #Histone code #Chromatin #DNA #Evolutionary biology #Computational biology #Gene