Decoding algal genomes: tracing back the history of photosynthetic life on Earth

Unraveling algal lipid metabolism: Recent advances in gene identification

(2010) Inna Khozin-Goldberg et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Transcriptome analysis reveals nuclear-encoded proteins for the maintenance of temporary plastids in the dinoflagellate Dinophysis acuminata

(2010) Jennifer H Wisecaver et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Biodiesel from algae: challenges and prospects

(2010) Stuart A Scott et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genetic Engineering of Algae for Enhanced Biofuel Production

(2010) Randor Radakovits et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Marine Prasinovirus Genomes Show Low Evolutionary Divergence and Acquisition of Protein Metabolism Genes by Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2010) H. Moreau et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Algal Genes in the Closest Relatives of Animals

(2010) G. Sun et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Differential Gene Retention in Plastids of Common Recent Origin

(2010) A. Reyes-Prieto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer and Transcriptional Regulation of Transferred Genes in Paulinella chromatophora

(2010) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

Transfer of carbohydrate-active enzymes from marine bacteria to Japanese gut microbiota

(2010) Jan-Hendrik Hehemann et al.   NATURE

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

Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2010) R. E. Blankenship   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Auxin Metabolism and Function in the Multicellular Brown Alga Ectocarpus siliculosus

(2010) A. Le Bail et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

One Bacterial Cell, One Complete Genome

(2010) Tanja Woyke et al.   PLoS One

An atypical member of the light-harvesting complex stress-related protein family modulates diatom responses to light

(2010) B. Bailleul et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

(2010) S. Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Genome-Wide Evolutionary Analysis of Eukaryotic DNA Methylation

(2010) A. Zemach et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic insights into photosynthesis in eukaryotic phytoplankton

(2010) Giovanni Finazzi et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Digital expression profiling of novel diatom transcripts provides insight into their biological functions

(2010) Uma Maheswari et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Oceanographic and Biogeochemical Insights from Diatom Genomes

(2009) Chris Bowler et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Mitosis in diatoms: rediscovering an old model for cell division

(2009) Alessandra De Martino et al.   BIOESSAYS

Potential impact of stress activated retrotransposons on genome evolution in a marine diatom

(2009) Florian Maumus et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Another acquisition of a primary photosynthetic organelle is underway in Paulinella chromatophora

(2009) Takuro Nakayama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolutionary development of plant body plans

(2009) Karl J. Niklas et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Going, Going, Not Quite Gone: Nucleomorphs as a Case Study in Nuclear Genome Reduction

(2009) J. M. Archibald et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

Cryptic Sex in the Smallest Eukaryotic Marine Green Alga

(2009) N. Grimsley et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Microbial community structure and its functional implications

(2009) Jed A. Fuhrman   NATURE

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

The evolution of the land plant life cycle

(2009) Karl J. Niklas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gene silencing in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

(2009) Valentina De Riso et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Clocks in the Green Lineage: Comparative Functional Analysis of the Circadian Architecture of the Picoeukaryote Ostreococcus

(2009) F. Corellou et al.   PLANT CELL

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

(2009) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

Viral Glycosphingolipids Induce Lytic Infection and Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton

(2009) A. Vardi et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms

(2009) A. Moustafa et al.   SCIENCE

The Glass Menagerie: diatoms for novel applications in nanotechnology

(2009) Richard Gordon et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genomic Insights into Marine Microalgae

(2008) Micaela S. Parker et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Diatoms—From Cell Wall Biogenesis to Nanotechnology

(2008) Nils Kröger et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Plastid Evolution

(2008) Sven B. Gould et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Diversity and evolution of marine phytoplankton

(2008) Nathalie Simon et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms

(2008) Adrian Marchetti et al.   NATURE

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

(2008) Chris Bowler et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

The "Cheshire Cat" escape strategy of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in response to viral infection

(2008) M. Frada et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Macroevolution via secondary endosymbiosis: a Neo-Goldschmidtian view of unicellular hopeful monsters and Darwin’s primordial intermediate form

(2008) U. Kutschera et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Biodiesel from microalgae beats bioethanol

(2008) Yusuf Chisti   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY