Really nice collection in the journal RNA for their 20th anniversary. So many interesting things here on the RNA world, RNA ctalysis, RNA structure, RNA function and more. Although all of these papers in some way relate to the work I do on sequencing and analyzing microbial genomes and metagenomes, a few of of particular relevance to the study of microbial diversity including these listed below:
Twenty years of RNA: then and now. Timothy W. Nilsen RNA April 2015 21: 471-473; doi:10.1261/rna.051284.115