And their elaborate detail implicates biochemical, cellular, organismal, ecological, and evolutionary machinery simultaneously.
Moreover, the cellular or ecological functions of these metabolites are currently unknown (Gerke et al. 2012b).
However, much work is needed to understand the link between carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in controlling resource allocation at different levels of biological resolution (cellular versus ecological).
The absence of "the one model" of chromosomal fixation can be attributed to the amount of variables associated with cellular, molecular, ecological, and population distinctiveness of each taxonomic group where chromosome rearrangements have become established [ 4].
Even if function has been conserved between the transferred and replaced genes, the genomic, cellular, and ecological context will be different between the donor and recipient populations, such that a different evolutionary trajectory may have been followed.
An important observation is that chromosomally adjacent and functionally related genes may be replaced by versions from different, disparate donors (e.g., the cobalamin synthesis pathway genes in fig. 3) creating diverse genetic combinations in alien genomic, cellular, and ecological contexts.
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