A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

(2018) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Global diversity and distribution of close relatives of apicomplexan parasites

(2018) Varsha Mathur et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deciphering the nature of the coral–Chromera association

(2018) Amin R Mohamed et al.   ISME Journal

Plastid genomes hit the big time

(2018) David Roy Smith   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Systematic Revision of Symbiodiniaceae Highlights the Antiquity and Diversity of Coral Endosymbionts

(2018) Todd C. LaJeunesse et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Protists Within Corals: The Hidden Diversity

(2018) Camille Clerissi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Rethinking the Coral Microbiome: Simplicity Exists within a Diverse Microbial Biosphere

(2018) Alejandra Hernandez-Agreda et al.   mBio

Defining the Core Microbiome in Corals’ Microbial Soup

(2017) Alejandra Hernandez-Agreda et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Other Microeukaryotes of the Coral Reef Microbiome

(2017) T.D. Ainsworth et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Heritability of the Symbiodinium community in vertically- and horizontally-transmitting broadcast spawning corals

(2017) Kate M. Quigley et al.   Scientific Reports

The ‘other’ coral symbiont: Ostreobium diversity and distribution

(2016) Javier del Campo et al.   ISME Journal

The microbiome of coral surface mucus has a key role in mediating holobiont health and survival upon disturbance

(2016) Bettina Glasl et al.   ISME Journal

MEGAHIT v1.0: A fast and scalable metagenome assembler driven by advanced methodologies and community practices

(2016) Dinghua Li et al.   METHODS

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high-throughput sequencing

(2015) Ramon Massana et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Divergent Mitochondrial Respiratory Chains in Phototrophic Relatives of Apicomplexan Parasites

(2015) Pavel Flegontov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

(2015) Yong H Woo et al.   eLife

Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria

(2015) Felipe Zapata et al.   PLoS One

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

VAMPS: a website for visualization and analysis of microbial population structures

(2014) Susan M Huse et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Community Shifts in the Surface Microbiomes of the Coral Porites astreoides with Unusual Lesions

(2014) Julie L. Meyer et al.   PLoS One

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ubiquitous associations and a peak fall prevalence between apicomplexan symbionts and reef corals in Florida and the Bahamas

(2013) N. L. Kirk et al.   CORAL REEFS

Combined Amplicon Pyrosequencing Assays Reveal Presence of the Apicomplexan “type-N” (cf. Gemmocystis cylindrus) and Chromera velia on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

(2013) Jan Šlapeta et al.   PLoS One

Tracking Transmission of Apicomplexan Symbionts in Diverse Caribbean Corals

(2013) Nathan L. Kirk et al.   PLoS One

The Chloroplast Genome of a Symbiodinium sp. Clade C3 Isolate

(2013) Adrian C. Barbrook et al.   PROTIST

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Global analysis of plastid diversity reveals apicomplexan-related lineages in coral reefs

(2012) Jan Janouškovec et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Environmental distribution of coral-associated relatives of apicomplexan parasites

(2012) Jan Janouškovec et al.   ISME Journal

Cell Biology of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis

(2012) S. K. Davy et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

470-Million-year-old black corals from China

(2012) Andrzej Baliński et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Chromera velia is Endosymbiotic in Larvae of the Reef Corals Acropora digitifera and A. tenuis

(2012) Vivian R. Cumbo et al.   PROTIST

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals

(2011) Jarosław Stolarski et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION OF REEF CORALS: A COMPARISON OF THE MOLECULAR AND FOSSIL RECORDS

(2011) Carl Simpson et al.   EVOLUTION

Estimation of divergence times in cnidarian evolution based on mitochondrial protein-coding genes and the fossil record

(2011) Eunji Park et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Tetrapyrrole Synthesis of Photosynthetic Chromerids Is Likely Homologous to the Unusual Pathway of Apicomplexan Parasites

(2011) Luděk Kořený et al.   PLANT CELL

Arctic Ocean Microbial Community Structure before and after the 2007 Record Sea Ice Minimum

(2011) André M. Comeau et al.   PLoS One

Morphology, Ultrastructure and Life Cycle of Vitrella brassicaformis n. sp., n. gen., a Novel Chromerid from the Great Barrier Reef

(2011) Miroslav Oborník et al.   PROTIST

Crystal Structure of the Nitrogenase-like Dark Operative Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase Catalytic Complex (ChlN/ChlB)2

(2010) Markus J. Bröcker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The evolution, metabolism and functions of the apicoplast

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

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

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

Systematic and Biogeographical Patterns in the Reproductive Biology of Scleractinian Corals

(2009) Andrew H. Baird et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites

(2008) Robert B. Moore et al.   NATURE