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About 100 million years ago, a lowly amoeba pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing genes from an unsuspecting bacterium to replace those it had lost. Now Rutgers and other scientists have solved the mystery of how the little amoeba, Paulinella, committed the theft. It engulfed the bacterium, kept that cell alive and harnessed its genes for photosynthesis, the process plants and algae use to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugar via solar energy.
"The major finding of the study is the microbial world, which we know is full of valuable genes, can move these genes between organisms according to need," said Debashish Bhattacharya, a study co-author and distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers. "When a microbe has a gene deficit, it can in some cases fill that deficit by grabbing the same gene from the environment. This shows how fluid microbial genomes really are."
Gene transfers from diverse bacteria compensate for reductive genome evolution in the chromatophore of Paulinella chromatophora (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1608016113) (DX)
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:23AM
About 126 billion milliseconds ago, a lowly blob of C pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing userland from an unsuspecting GNU/Linux system to replace the cash flow it had lost once that system started becoming actually easy to maintain. Now Rutgers and other scientists have solved the mystery of how the not so little blob, Poetterella, committed the theft. It engulfed the PID 1, kept the kernel kind of going and harnessed its syscalls for encapsulation and never finished protocol alterations, the process commercial programmers use to convert perfectly working systems into cash via support contracts.
"The major finding of the study is the systems programming world, which we know is full of valuable geniuses, cannot move these geniuses between projects according to need," said DeBASHit Betchyaabeer, a study co-author and distinguished professor in the Department of Economy, Character Assassination and Mafia Style Political Pressure at Rutgers. "When a software house has cash deficit, it can in some cases fill that deficit by grabbing the same programmer from the highly praised pulseaudio software stack. This shows how fluid manager ethics really are.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2016, @09:30AM
Best systemd troll ever.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Sunday October 16 2016, @02:39PM
> systemd troll
Let me just settle for second place, after Poettering himself.
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