A paradox: rapid evolution rates of germline-limited sequences are associated with conserved patterns of rearrangements in cryptic species of Chilodonella uncinata (Protista, Ciliophora)

GPSit: An automated method for evolutionary analysis of nonculturable ciliated microeukaryotes

(2018) Xiao Chen et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Exploration of the Germline Genome of the Ciliate Chilodonella uncinata through Single-Cell Omics (Transcriptomics and Genomics)

(2018) Xyrus X. Maurer-Alcalá et al.   mBio

N 6 -methyladenine DNA modification in the unicellular eukaryotic organism Tetrahymena thermophila

(2017) Yuanyuan Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

A comparative study of genome organization and epigenetic mechanisms in model ciliates, with an emphasis on Tetrahymena , Paramecium and Oxytricha

(2017) Yurui Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Further consideration on the phylogeny of the Ciliophora: Analyses using both mitochondrial and nuclear data with focus on the extremely confused class Phyllopharyngea

(2017) Pu Wang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

N6-adenine DNA methylation is associated with the linker DNA of H2A.Z-containing well-positioned nucleosomes in Pol II-transcribed genes in Tetrahymena

(2017) Yuanyuan Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Disentangling sources of variation in SSU rDNA sequences from single cell analyses of ciliates: impact of copy number variation and experimental error

(2017) Chundi Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Whats, hows and whys of programmed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena

(2017) Tomoko Noto et al.   Open Biology

Actin evolution in ciliates (Protist, Alveolata) is characterized by high diversity and three duplication events

(2016) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular sled sequences are common in mammalian proteins

(2016) Kan Xiong et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Histone methyltransferase TXR1 is required for both H3 and H3.3 lysine 27 methylation in the well-known ciliated protist Tetrahymena thermophila

(2016) Xiaolu Zhao et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Enzymatic and chemical mapping of nucleosome distribution in purified micro- and macronuclei of the ciliated model organism, Tetrahymena thermophila

(2016) Xiao Chen et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

What Is a Genome?

(2016) Aaron David Goldman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Structure of the germline genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and relationship to the massively rearranged somatic genome

(2016) Eileen P Hamilton et al.   eLife

The All-Data-Based Evolutionary Hypothesis of Ciliated Protists with a Revised Classification of the Phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata)

(2016) Feng Gao et al.   Scientific Reports

The Architecture of a Scrambled Genome Reveals Massive Levels of Genomic Rearrangement during Development

(2014) Xiao Chen et al.   CELL

Evolution of the Germline Actin Gene in Hypotrichous Ciliates: Multiple Nonscrambled IESs at Extremely Conserved Locations in Two Urostylids

(2014) Tianbing Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Impaired replication elongation in Tetrahymena mutants deficient in histone H3 Lys 27 monomethylation

(2013) S. Gao et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

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

Heterogeneous Rates of Molecular Evolution Among Cryptic Species of the Ciliate Morphospecies Chilodonella uncinata

(2012) Laura A. Katz et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Evolution of Germline-Limited Sequences in Two Populations of the Ciliate Chilodonella uncinata

(2012) Rebecca A. Zufall et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The Paramecium Germline Genome Provides a Niche for Intragenic Parasitic DNA: Evolutionary Dynamics of Internal Eliminated Sequences

(2012) Olivier Arnaiz et al.   PLoS Genetics

RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Programming of Genome Rearrangements

(2011) Mariusz Nowacki et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry

(2011) Mathieu Joron et al.   NATURE

Alternative processing of scrambled genes generates protein diversity in the ciliate Chilodonella uncinata

(2010) Laura A. Katz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Macronuclear genome structure of the ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis: Single-gene chromosomes and tiny introns

(2008) Guénola Ricard et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Dynamic Nature of Eukaryotic Genomes

(2008) L. W. Parfrey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Antigenic Variation in Trypanosoma brucei: Joining the DOTs

(2008) Chris Stockdale et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY