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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by owl57 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @12:18AM (#27817581)
"Although vaults have been observed in many eukaryotic species, a few species do not appear to have the ribonucleoprotein. These include:

Arabidopsis thaliana

Caenorhabditis elegans

Drosophila melanogaster

Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Wow. As if some hacker is playing against the researchers, removing the backdoor from all the most studied systems.

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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by derefr on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:09AM (#27817781)
What do those organisms have in common that made them good model organisms that researchers favoured studying? Perhaps one of those same properties (fast reproductive rate, maybe?) requires ditching the vault complex.
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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by owl57 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @01:40AM (#27817902)
Plausible. Makes one wonder what else we haven't figured out because of the same bias.
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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by meroes on Saturday July 17, 2021 @08:12PM (#27869797)
Arabidopsis thaliana is at least interesting because it tells time https://youtu.be/CA-YsWXRSHU?t=418
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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by patcon on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:12PM (#27867610)
Really insightful comment. Thanks!
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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by amelius on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:31AM (#27819395)
> Wow. As if some hacker is playing against the researchers, removing the backdoor from all the most studied systems.

Or perhaps it simply explains why it took so long to find them.

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Re:Borgs are giant extrachromosomal elements by inciampati on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:15AM (#27819276)
It's possible, although the cited articles in that section are from 1990 and 1991. (Another one links to a clone of the same wikipedia article in pfam, which is a comically circular reference.) We hadn't sequenced much then, so the absence of these organelles was probably established by microscopy in these model organisms.
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