Two Different Rickettsial Bacteria Invading Volvox carteri

New “missing link” genus of the colonial volvocine green algae gives insights into the evolution of oogamy

(2014) Hisayoshi Nozaki et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A rickettsial endosymbiont inhabiting the cytoplasm ofVolvox carteri(Volvocales, Chlorophyceae)

(2014) Kaoru Kawafune et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Flagellar Movement in Two Bacteria of the Family Rickettsiaceae: A Re-Evaluation of Motility in an Evolutionary Perspective

(2014) Claudia Vannini et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial DNA Sifted from the Trichoplax adhaerens (Animalia: Placozoa) Genome Project Reveals a Putative Rickettsial Endosymbiont

(2013) Timothy Driscoll et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Intranuclear verrucomicrobial symbionts and evidence of lateral gene transfer to the host protist in the termite gut

(2013) Tomoyuki Sato et al.   ISME Journal

The Evolution of Male–Female Sexual Dimorphism Predates the Gender-Based Divergence of the Mating Locus Gene MAT3/RB

(2013) Rintaro Hiraide et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

‘Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila’ gen. nov., sp. nov.: Considerations on Evolutionary History, Host Range and Shift of Early Divergent Rickettsiae

(2013) Martina Schrallhammer et al.   PLoS One

New rRNA Gene-Based Phylogenies of the Alphaproteobacteria Provide Perspective on Major Groups, Mitochondrial Ancestry and Phylogenetic Instability

(2013) Matteo P. Ferla et al.   PLoS One

Permanent residents or temporary lodgers: characterizing intracellular bacterial communities in the siphonous green alga Bryopsis

(2013) J. Hollants et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Consensus Secondary Structure of ITS2 in the Chlorophyta Identified by Phylogenetic Reconstruction

(2013) Lenka Caisová et al.   PROTIST

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Molecular Identification of Rickettsial Endosymbionts in the Non-Phagotrophic Volvocalean Green Algae

(2012) Kaoru Kawafune et al.   PLoS One

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phytozome: a comparative platform for green plant genomics

(2011) David M. Goodstein et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Uniparental Inheritance of Chloroplast DNA Is Strict in the Isogamous Volvocalean Gonium

(2011) Yuka Setohigashi et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

(2011) A. Caspi-Fluger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of an Expanded Sex-Determining Locus in Volvox

(2010) P. Ferris et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbes that Manipulate Host Reproduction

(2009) Jan Engelstädter et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

VARNA: Interactive drawing and editing of the RNA secondary structure

(2009) Kévin Darty et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer

(2009) Naruo Nikoh et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

“CandidatusCryptoprodotis polytropus,” A NovelRickettsia-Like Organism in the Ciliated ProtistPseudomicrothorax dubius(Ciliophora, Nassophorea)

(2009) FILIPPO FERRANTINI et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae

(2009) M. D. Herron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Massive Horizontal Gene Transfer in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2008) E. A. Gladyshev et al.   SCIENCE