Origin of eukaryotic cells: 40 years on

Red and Green Algal Monophyly and Extensive Gene Sharing Found in a Rich Repertoire of Red Algal Genes

(2011) Cheong Xin Chan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Metagenomic Analyses: Past and Future Trends

(2010) Carola Simon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Origin of the cell nucleus, mitosis and sex: roles of intracellular coevolution

(2010) Thomas Cavalier-Smith   Biology Direct

The Incredible Expanding Ancestor of Eukaryotes

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin   CELL

The bacterial essence of tiny symbiont genomes

(2010) John P McCutcheon   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Using Algal Transcriptome Sequences to Identify Transferred Genes in the Sea Slug, Elysia chlorotica

(2010) Julie A. Schwartz et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Complete Nucleomorph Genome Sequence of the Nonphotosynthetic Alga Cryptomonas paramecium Reveals a Core Nucleomorph Gene Set

(2010) Goro Tanifuji et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The making of a photosynthetic animal

(2010) M. E. Rumpho et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A HYPOTHESIS FOR IMPORT OF THE NUCLEAR-ENCODED PsaE PROTEIN OF PAULINELLA CHROMATOPHORA (CERCOZOA, RHIZARIA) INTO ITS CYANOBACTERIAL ENDOSYMBIONTS/PLASTIDS VIA THE ENDOMEMBRANE SYSTEM1

(2010) Paweł Mackiewicz et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Transcriptomic Evidence That Longevity of Acquired Plastids in the Photosynthetic Slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus Does Not Entail Lateral Transfer of Algal Nuclear Genes

(2010) H. Wagele 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 energetics of genome complexity

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   NATURE

Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes

(2010) K. Hjort et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endosymbiotic associations within protists

(2010) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

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

Broadly Sampled Multigene Analyses Yield a Well-Resolved Eukaryotic Tree of Life

(2010) Laura Wegener Parfrey 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 origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics

(2010) Eugene V Koonin   GENOME BIOLOGY

Nucleomorph Genomes

(2009) Christa E. Moore et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Takuro Nakayama et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal That Two Enigmatic Protist Lineages, Telonemia and Centroheliozoa, Are Related to Photosynthetic Chromalveolates

(2009) Fabien Burki et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Chromalveolates and the Evolution of Plastids by Secondary Endosymbiosis

(2009) PATRICK J. KEELING   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Distributions and Histories of Proteins Involved in Anaerobic Pyruvate Metabolism in Eukaryotes

(2009) L. A. Hug et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic positions of Glaucophyta, green plants (Archaeplastida) and Haptophyta (Chromalveolata) as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes

(2009) Hisayoshi Nozaki et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

(2009) V. Hampl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origin of an Alternative Genetic Code in the Extremely Small and GC–Rich Genome of a Bacterial Symbiont

(2009) John P. McCutcheon et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Plastid Evolution

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

DNA Transfer from Organelles to the Nucleus: The Idiosyncratic Genetics of Endosymbiosis

(2008) Tatjana Kleine et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Phylogenomics reveals a new 'megagroup' including most photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2008) F. Burki et al.   Biology Letters

The cyanobacterial endosymbiont of the unicellular algae Rhopalodia gibba shows reductive genome evolution

(2008) Christoph Kneip et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Organelles in Blastocystis that Blur the Distinction between Mitochondria and Hydrogenosomes

(2008) Alexandra Stechmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Chromatophore Genome Sequence of Paulinella Sheds Light on Acquisition of Photosynthesis by Eukaryotes

(2008) Eva C.M. Nowack et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A HYPOTHESIS FOR PLASTID EVOLUTION IN CHROMALVEOLATES1

(2008) M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Analysis of Two Genomes from the Mitochondrion-Like Organelle of the Intestinal Parasite Blastocystis: Complete Sequences, Gene Content, and Genome Organization

(2008) V. Perez-Brocal et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi

(2008) Anastasios D. Tsaousis et al.   NATURE

Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron–sulphur cluster assembly proteins

(2008) Alina V. Goldberg et al.   NATURE

EEF2 Analysis Challenges the Monophyly of Archaeplastida and Chromalveolata

(2008) Eunsoo Kim et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica

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