A phylogenetically novel cyanobacterium most closely related to Gloeobacter

The evolution of photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in the cyanobacteria

(2019) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Gloeobacter violaceus: primitive reproductive scheme and its significance

(2018) Gustavo Montejano et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Photoecology of the Antarctic cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya sp. BC1307 brought to light through community analysis, comparative genomics and in vitro photophysiology

(2018) Nathan A. M. Chrismas et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Morphological signatures of microbial activity across sediment and light microenvironments of Lake Vanda, Antarctica

(2017) Tyler J. Mackey et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Stromatolites on the rise in peat-bound karstic wetlands

(2017) Bernadette C. Proemse et al.   Scientific Reports

Growth of elaborate microbial pinnacles in Lake Vanda, Antarctica

(2016) D. Y. Sumner et al.   Geobiology

BlastKOALA and GhostKOALA: KEGG Tools for Functional Characterization of Genome and Metagenome Sequences

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

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

Structure, Diversity, and Evolution of a New Family of Soluble Carotenoid-Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria

(2016) Matthew R. Melnicki et al.   Molecular Plant

Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

(2016) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Different Functions of the Paralogs to the N-Terminal Domain of the Orange Carotenoid Protein in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

(2016) Rocío López-Igual et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Reconstructing the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Do Assembly and Photoactivation Recapitulate Evolution?

(2016) Tanai Cardona   Frontiers in Plant Science

Microbial Mat Communities along an Oxygen Gradient in a Perennially Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake

(2015) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph

(2015) Dinghua Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Multi-scale phylogenetic heterogeneity of archaea, bacteria, methanogens and methanotrophs in lake sediments

(2015) Elodie Billard et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Cyanobacterial diversity in benthic mats of the McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, Antarctica

(2015) L. Zhang et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

The first 25 years of the hydrology of the Onyx River, Wright Valley, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2015) Trevor Chinn et al.   POLAR RECORD

Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacteriumVampirovibrio chlorellavorus

(2015) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   PeerJ

MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities

(2015) Dongwan D. Kang et al.   PeerJ

Community Structure and Biogeochemical Impacts of Microbial Life on Floating Pumice

(2014) J. J. Elser et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

An Expanded Genomic Representation of the Phylum Cyanobacteria

(2014) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

A fresh look at the evolution and diversification of photochemical reaction centers

(2014) Tanai Cardona   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

PhyloSift: phylogenetic analysis of genomes and metagenomes

(2014) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PeerJ

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Cultivation and Complete Genome Sequencing of Gloeobacter kilaueensis sp. nov., from a Lava Cave in Kīlauea Caldera, Hawai'i

(2013) Jimmy H. W. Saw et al.   PLoS One

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

(2013) C. T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria

(2013) Sara C Di Rienzi et al.   eLife

Chlorophyll Biosynthesis Gene Evolution Indicates Photosystem Gene Duplication, Not Photosystem Merger, at the Origin of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

(2012) Filipa L. Sousa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Targeted recovery of novel phylogenetic diversity from next-generation sequence data

(2012) Michael D J Lynch et al.   ISME Journal

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2011) Martin F. Hohmann-Marriott et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Adaptive seeds tame genomic sequence comparison

(2011) S. M. Kielbasa et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II at a resolution of 1.9 Å

(2011) Yasufumi Umena et al.   NATURE

Sequence variation at the oxygen-evolving centre of photosystem II: a new class of ‘rogue’ cyanobacterial D1 proteins

(2011) James W. Murray   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The Plasma Membrane of the CyanobacteriumGloeobacter violaceusContains Segregated Bioenergetic Domains

(2011) Sascha Rexroth et al.   PLANT CELL

Microflorae of aquatic moss pillars in a freshwater lake, East Antarctica, based on fatty acid and 16S rRNA gene analyses

(2011) Ryosuke Nakai et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Recent Progress in the Crystallographic Studies of Photosystem II

(2010) Albert Guskov et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Differences in the Interactions between the Subunits of Photosystem II Dependent on D1 Protein Variants in the Thermophilic CyanobacteriumThermosynechococcus elongatus

(2010) Miwa Sugiura et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

(2010) R. E. Blankenship   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Protein signatures (molecular synapomorphies) that are distinctive characteristics of the major cyanobacterial clades

(2009) R. S. Gupta   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Oxygen evolution in the thylakoid-lacking cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421

(2008) Kohei Koyama et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

The rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Lee R. Kump   NATURE

Two unique cyanobacteria lead to a traceable approach of the first appearance of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2008) Mamoru Mimuro et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

The calcium and chloride requirements of the O2 evolving complex

(2007) C YOCUM   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS