When the lights go out: the evolutionary fate of free-living colorless green algae

The genome of Eimeria falciformisv - reduction and specialization in a single host apicomplexan parasite

(2014) Emanuel Heitlinger et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Possible Loss of the Chloroplast Genome in the Parasitic Flowering Plant Rafflesia lagascae (Rafflesiaceae)

(2014) Jeanmaire Molina et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Plastid without a Genome: Evidence from the Nonphotosynthetic Green Algal Genus Polytomella

(2014) D. R. Smith et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A Lack of Parasitic Reduction in the Obligate Parasitic Green Alga Helicosporidium

(2014) Jean-François Pombert et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Modern Descendant of Early Green Algal Phagotrophs

(2013) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Organelle Genome Complexity Scales Positively with Organism Size in Volvocine Green Algae

(2013) David Roy Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

(2013) S. Wicke et al.   PLANT CELL

The Non-Photosynthetic Algae Helicosporidium spp.: Emergence of a Novel Group of Insect Pathogens

(2013) Aurélien Tartar   Insects

Detection of Helicosporidium spp. in metagenomic DNA

(2012) Norberto Mancera et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Protothecosis: report of a case with 20-year follow-up, and review of previously published cases

(2012) John R. Todd et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

The genome of the polar eukaryotic microalga Coccomyxa subellipsoidea reveals traits of cold adaptation

(2012) Guillaume Blanc et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Plastid Proteomics in Higher Plants: Current State and Future Goals

(2011) K. J. van Wijk et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Comparative genomics of the pathogenic ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis, its free-living relatives and a host species provide insights into adoption of a parasitic lifestyle and prospects for disease control

(2011) Robert S Coyne et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Low Nucleotide Diversity for the Expanded Organelle and Nuclear Genomes of Volvox carteri Supports the Mutational-Hazard Hypothesis

(2010) D. R. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TheChlorella variabilisNC64A Genome Reveals Adaptation to Photosymbiosis, Coevolution with Viruses, and Cryptic Sex

(2010) Guillaume Blanc et al.   PLANT CELL

Chlorophyll-deficient mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that accumulate magnesium protoporphyrin IX

(2010) Linda Meinecke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genomic Analysis of Organismal Complexity in the Multicellular Green Alga Volvox carteri

(2010) S. E. Prochnik et al.   SCIENCE

The complete sequence of the smallest known nuclear genome from the microsporidian Encephalitozoon intestinalis

(2010) Nicolas Corradi et al.   Nature Communications

Reverse Evolution: Driving Forces Behind the Loss of Acquired Photosynthetic Traits

(2009) Francisco de Castro et al.   PLoS One

Molecular systematics of Volvocales (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) based on exhaustive 18S rRNA phylogenetic analyses

(2008) Takashi Nakada et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Ultrastructure of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Mutant Strain Lacking Phytoene Synthase Resembles that of a Colorless Alga

(2008) William Inwood et al.   Molecular Plant