Meiosis Gene Inventory of Four Ciliates Reveals the Prevalence of a Synaptonemal Complex-Independent Crossover Pathway

Meiotic and Mitotic Recombination in Meiosis

(2013) K. P. Kohl et al.   GENETICS

Inventory and Phylogenetic Analysis of Meiotic Genes in Monogonont Rotifers

(2013) Sara J. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Mus81 nuclease and Sgs1 helicase are essential for meiotic recombination in a protist lacking a synaptonemal complex

(2013) Agnieszka Lukaszewicz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Population-genomic insights into the evolutionary origin and fate of obligately asexual Daphnia pulex

(2013) A. E. Tucker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Oxytricha trifallax Macronuclear Genome: A Complex Eukaryotic Genome with 16,000 Tiny Chromosomes

(2013) Estienne C. Swart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Selecting One of Several Mating Types through Gene Segment Joining and Deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila

(2013) Marcella D. Cervantes et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

An elegans Solution for Crossover Formation

(2013) Stephanie P. Bellendir et al.   PLoS Genetics

MCM8 Is Required for a Pathway of Meiotic Double-Strand Break Repair Independent of DMC1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Wayne Crismani et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Single Cohesin Complex Performs Mitotic and Meiotic Functions in the Protist Tetrahymena

(2013) Rachel A. Howard-Till et al.   PLoS Genetics

The other eukaryotes in light of evolutionary protistology

(2012) Maureen A. O’Malley et al.   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Limitations of the rhesus macaque draft genome assembly and annotation

(2012) Xiongfei Zhang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mug20, a novel protein associated with linear elements in fission yeast meiosis

(2012) Anna Estreicher et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Searching for clues of sexual reproduction in the genomes of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2012) Rohan Riley et al.   Fungal Ecology

Assessing Whether Alpha-Tubulin Sequences Are Suitable for Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Ciliophora with Insights into Its Evolution in Euplotids

(2012) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   PLoS One

Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti

(2012) Jeanne Ropars et al.   PLoS One

The Fast Changing Landscape of Sequencing Technologies and Their Impact on Microbial Genome Assemblies and Annotation

(2012) Konstantinos Mavromatis et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of an MCM Complex in Flies That Promotes Meiotic Crossovers by Blocking BLM Helicase

(2012) K. P. Kohl et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating molecular support for and against the monophyly of the Peritrichia and phylogenetic relationships within the Mobilida (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea)

(2012) Zifeng Zhan et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

The Evolution of Sex Is Favoured During Adaptation to New Environments

(2012) Lutz Becks et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Processing of joint molecule intermediates by structure-selective endonucleases during homologous recombination in eukaryotes

(2011) Erin K. Schwartz et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Conserved Meiotic Machinery in Glomus spp., a Putatively Ancient Asexual Fungal Lineage

(2011) Sébastien Halary et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome Assembly Has a Major Impact on Gene Content: A Comparison of Annotation in Two Bos Taurus Assemblies

(2011) Liliana Florea et al.   PLoS One

Running with the Red Queen: Host-Parasite Coevolution Selects for Biparental Sex

(2011) L. T. Morran et al.   SCIENCE

Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

(2011) Sean R. Eddy   PLoS Computational Biology

The Recombinases Rad51 and Dmc1 Play Distinct Roles in DNA Break Repair and Recombination Partner Choice in the Meiosis of Tetrahymena

(2011) Rachel A. Howard-Till et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

Datamonkey 2010: a suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for evolutionary biology

(2010) W. Delport et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MRE11 and COM1/SAE2 are required for double-strand break repair and efficient chromosome pairing during meiosis of the protist Tetrahymena

(2010) Agnieszka Lukaszewicz et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Genetic Interference: Dont Stand So Close to Me

(2010) Luke Berchowitz et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

GEN1/Yen1 and the SLX4 complex: solutions to the problem of Holliday junction resolution

(2010) J. M. Svendsen et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Inventory and phylogenomic distribution of meiotic genes inNasonia vitripennisand among diverse arthropods

(2010) A. M. Schurko et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Experiments with Digital Organisms on the Origin and Maintenance of Sex in Changing Environments

(2010) D. Misevic et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The resistance of DMC1 D-loops to dissociation may account for the DMC1 requirement in meiosis

(2010) Dmitry V Bugreev et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Secretive ciliates and putative asexuality in microbial eukaryotes

(2010) Micah Dunthorn et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic Analysis of Baker's Yeast Msh4-Msh5 Reveals a Threshold Crossover Level for Meiotic Viability

(2010) K. T. Nishant et al.   PLoS Genetics

Hormad1 Mutation Disrupts Synaptonemal Complex Formation, Recombination, and Chromosome Segregation in Mammalian Meiosis

(2010) Yong-Hyun Shin et al.   PLoS Genetics

Rapid diversification of mating systems in ciliates

(2009) SUJAL S. PHADKE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Meiosis genes in Daphnia pulex and the role of parthenogenesis in genome evolution

(2009) Andrew M Schurko et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tetrahymena Meiotic Nuclear Reorganization Is Induced by a Checkpoint Kinase–dependent Response to DNA Damage

(2009) Josef Loidl et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Mechanism of Eukaryotic Homologous Recombination

(2008) Joseph San Filippo et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Using a meiosis detection toolkit to investigate ancient asexual “scandals” and the evolution of sex

(2008) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   BIOESSAYS

DNA double-strand breaks, but not crossovers, are required for the reorganization of meiotic nuclei in Tetrahymena

(2008) K. Mochizuki et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

An Expanded Inventory of Conserved Meiotic Genes Provides Evidence for Sex in Trichomonas vaginalis

(2008) Shehre-Banoo Malik et al.   PLoS One