Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes

Ancient gene transfer from algae to animals: Mechanisms and evolutionary significance

(2012) Ting Ni et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

What makes a chloroplast? Reconstructing the establishment of photosynthetic symbioses

(2012) R. G. Dorrell et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Trafficking of protein into the recently established photosynthetic organelles of Paulinella chromatophora

(2012) E. C. M. Nowack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins

(2012) F. Burki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

(2012) D. C. Price et al.   SCIENCE

Widespread impact of horizontal gene transfer on plant colonization of land

(2012) Jipei Yue et al.   Nature Communications

Early evolution without a tree of life

(2011) William F Martin   Biology Direct

Horizontal acquisition of multiple mitochondrial genes from a parasitic plant followed by gene conversion with host mitochondrial genes

(2011) Jeffrey P Mower et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Multiple recent horizontal transfers of the cox1intron in Solanaceae and extended co-conversion of flanking exons

(2011) Maria V Sanchez-Puerta et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eukaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfer gives rise to genome mosaicism in euglenids

(2011) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evidence for acquisition of virulence effectors in pathogenic chytrids

(2011) Guiling Sun et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Experimental design and statistical rigor in phylogenomics of horizontal and endosymbiotic gene transfer

(2011) John W Stiller   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phosphate transporters in marine phytoplankton and their viruses: cross-domain commonalities in viral-host gene exchanges

(2011) Adam Monier et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for Horizontal Gene Transfer from Bacteroidetes Bacteria to Dinoflagellate Minicircles

(2011) Krzysztof Moszczyński et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Transcriptomic Evidence for the Expression of Horizontally Transferred Algal Nuclear Genes in the Photosynthetic Sea Slug, Elysia chlorotica

(2011) Sidney K. Pierce et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate a Deep Origin of Primary Plastids within Cyanobacteria

(2011) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unity in Variety--The Pan-Genome of the Chlamydiae

(2011) A. Collingro et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of Plant Nucleotide-Sugar Interconversion Enzymes

(2011) Yanbin Yin et al.   PLoS One

Possible import routes of proteins into the cyanobacterial endosymbionts/plastids of Paulinella chromatophora

(2011) Paweł Mackiewicz et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes

(2010) Laura A. Katz   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

Horizontally acquired DAP pathway as a unit of self-regulation

(2010) G. SUN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Did Trypanosomatid Parasites Contain a Eukaryotic Alga–Derived Plastid in Their Evolutionary Past?

(2010) Andrzej Bodył et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

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

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

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

Evolutionary origins of metabolic compartmentalization in eukaryotes

(2010) W. Martin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids

(2010) J. Janouskovec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal Gene Transfer by the Parasitic Plant Striga hermonthica

(2010) S. Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

(2010) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) Laura Wegener Parfrey et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Role of Hybridization in Plant Speciation

(2009) Pamela S. Soltis et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land

(2009) Giovanni Emiliani et al.   Biology Direct

Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

(2009) Eric Bapteste et al.   Biology Direct

Cyanobacterial contribution to the genomes of the plastid-lacking protists

(2009) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The mitochondrial and plastid genomes of Volvox carteri: bloated molecules rich in repetitive DNA

(2009) David Smith et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?

(2009) John W Stiller et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life

(2009) Katharina Händeler et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Horizontal gene transfer of an entire metabolic pathway between a eukaryotic alga and its DNA virus

(2009) A. Monier et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Chromalveolates and the Evolution of Plastids by Secondary Endosymbiosis

(2009) PATRICK J. KEELING   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Eukaryotic and Eubacterial Contributions to the Establishment of Plastid Proteome Estimated by Large-Scale Phylogenetic Analyses

(2009) K. Suzuki et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic Analysis Demonstrates a Pattern of Rare and Ancient Horizontal Gene Transfer between Plants and Fungi

(2009) T. A. Richards et al.   PLANT CELL

Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms

(2009) A. Moustafa et al.   SCIENCE

Chromalveolate plastids: direct descent or multiple endosymbioses?

(2009) Andrzej Bodył et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics reveals a new 'megagroup' including most photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2008) F. Burki et al.   Biology Letters

Origins of a cyanobacterial 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in plastid-lacking eukaryotes

(2008) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chlamydial genes shed light on the evolution of photoautotrophic eukaryotes

(2008) Burkhard Becker et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evidence of a chimeric genome in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids

(2008) Jeferson Gross et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oedogonium cardiacum (Chlorophyceae): Unique genome architecture, derived characters shared with the Chaetophorales and novel genes acquired through horizontal transfer

(2008) Jean-Simon Brouard et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Chloroplast genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCMP452 (West Atlantic) and NIES293 (West Pacific) strains

(2008) Rose Cattolico et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Multiple Genes of Apparent Algal Origin Suggest Ciliates May Once Have Been Photosynthetic

(2008) Adrian Reyes-Prieto 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

Adaptive eukaryote-to-eukaryote lateral gene transfer: stress-related genes of algal origin in the closest unicellular relatives of animals

(2008) A. M. NEDELCU et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A HYPOTHESIS FOR PLASTID EVOLUTION IN CHROMALVEOLATES1

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

Ancient Recruitment by Chromists of Green Algal Genes Encoding Enzymes for Carotenoid Biosynthesis

(2008) R. Frommolt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial DNA of Vitis vinifera and the Issue of Rampant Horizontal Gene Transfer

(2008) V. V. Goremykin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genes of Cyanobacterial Origin in Plant Nuclear Genomes Point to a Heterocyst-Forming Plastid Ancestor

(2008) O. Deusch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

(2008) Chris Bowler et al.   NATURE

A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites

(2008) Robert B. Moore et al.   NATURE

Targeting of nucleus-encoded proteins to chloroplasts in plants

(2008) Paul Jarvis   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Lateral transfer of introns in the cryptophyte plastid genome

(2008) Hameed Khan et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Chlamydiae Has Contributed at Least 55 Genes to Plantae with Predominantly Plastid Functions

(2008) Ahmed Moustafa 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

Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution

(2008) T. Dagan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution

(2008) Jinling Huang et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY