Identification of the meiotic toolkit in diatoms and exploration of meiosis-specific SPO11 and RAD51 homologs in the sexual species Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata and Seminavis robusta

Plastid proteome prediction for diatoms and other algae with secondary plastids of the red lineage

(2015) Ansgar Gruber et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Msh4 and Msh5 Function in SC-Independent Chiasma Formation During the Streamlined Meiosis of Tetrahymena

(2014) A. Shodhan et al.   GENETICS

Life-cycle modification in open oceans accounts for genome variability in a cosmopolitan phytoplankton

(2014) Peter von Dassow et al.   ISME Journal

Mispair-specific Recruitment of the Mlh1-Pms1 Complex Identifies Repair Substrates of theSaccharomyces cerevisiaeMsh2-Msh3 Complex

(2014) Anjana Srivatsan et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Cryptic Sex inSymbiodinium(Alveolata, Dinoflagellata) is Supported by an Inventory of Meiotic Genes

(2014) Jingyun Chi et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Ten Years of Gene Discovery for Meiotic Event Control in Rice

(2014) Qiong Luo et al.   Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Origins of Eukaryotic Sexual Reproduction

(2014) U. Goodenough et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The splicing fate of plant SPO11 genes

(2014) Thorben Sprink et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Selection and validation of reference genes for qPCR analysis in the pennate diatoms Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata and P. arenysensis

(2013) Maria Grazia Adelfi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Inventory and Phylogenetic Analysis of Meiotic Genes in Monogonont Rotifers

(2013) Sara J. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The MCM8-MCM9 Complex Promotes RAD51 Recruitment at DNA Damage Sites To Facilitate Homologous Recombination

(2013) J. Park et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Meiosis Gene Inventory of Four Ciliates Reveals the Prevalence of a Synaptonemal Complex-Independent Crossover Pathway

(2013) Jingyun Chi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

(2013) Jean-François Flot et al.   NATURE

Meiotic recombination in mammals: localization and regulation

(2013) Frédéric Baudat et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Mechanistic insights into the role of Hop2-Mnd1 in meiotic homologous DNA pairing

(2013) W. Zhao et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Linkage Mapping Identifies the Sex Determining Region as a Single Locus in the Pennate Diatom Seminavis robusta

(2013) Ives Vanstechelman et al.   PLoS One

MCM8 Is Required for a Pathway of Meiotic Double-Strand Break Repair Independent of DMC1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2013) Wayne Crismani et al.   PLoS Genetics

A Single Cohesin Complex Performs Mitotic and Meiotic Functions in the Protist Tetrahymena

(2013) Rachel A. Howard-Till et al.   PLoS Genetics

TRAPID: an efficient online tool for the functional and comparative analysis of de novo RNA-Seq transcriptomes

(2013) Michiel Van Bel et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Nuclear inheritance and genetic exchange without meiosis in the binucleate parasite Giardia intestinalis

(2012) M. L. Carpenter et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

(2012) Sina M. Adl et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

The Sum1/Ndt80 Transcriptional Switch and Commitment to Meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2012) E. Winter   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

MCM8- and MCM9-Deficient Mice Reveal Gametogenesis Defects and Genome Instability Due to Impaired Homologous Recombination

(2012) Malik Lutzmann et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Recombinases DMC1 and RAD51 Are Functionally and Spatially Separated during Meiosis in Arabidopsis

(2012) M.-T. Kurzbauer et al.   PLANT CELL

Aberrant Sporogonic Development of Dmc1 (a Meiotic Recombinase) Deficient Plasmodium berghei Parasites

(2012) Godfree Mlambo et al.   PLoS One

Rad51 Is an Accessory Factor for Dmc1-Mediated Joint Molecule Formation During Meiosis

(2012) V. Cloud et al.   SCIENCE

FANCM Limits Meiotic Crossovers

(2012) W. Crismani et al.   SCIENCE

Draft genome sequence and genetic transformation of the oleaginous alga Nannochloropsis gaditana

(2012) Randor Radakovits et al.   Nature Communications

Inter-Homolog Crossing-Over and Synapsis in Arabidopsis Meiosis Are Dependent on the Chromosome Axis Protein AtASY3

(2012) Maheen Ferdous et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Arabidopsis HEI10 Is a New ZMM Protein Related to Zip3

(2012) Liudmila Chelysheva et al.   PLoS Genetics

RNA-Seq analysis in MeV

(2011) E. A. Howe et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Pathways to meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Kim Osman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

(2011) R. D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RAD51 paralogs: Roles in DNA damage signalling, recombinational repair and tumorigenesis

(2011) Natsuko Suwaki et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Recombinases Rad51 and Dmc1 Play Distinct Roles in DNA Break Repair and Recombination Partner Choice in the Meiosis of Tetrahymena

(2011) Rachel A. Howard-Till et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Genome of Naegleria gruberi Illuminates Early Eukaryotic Versatility

(2010) Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin et al.   CELL

Many functions of the meiotic cohesin

(2010) Amit Bardhan   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

RecA maintains the integrity of chloroplast DNA molecules in Arabidopsis

(2010) Beth A. Rowan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

BRCA2 acts as a RAD51 loader to facilitate telomere replication and capping

(2010) Sophie Badie et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genetic Analysis of Baker's Yeast Msh4-Msh5 Reveals a Threshold Crossover Level for Meiotic Viability

(2010) K. T. Nishant et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Meiosis genes in Daphnia pulex and the role of parthenogenesis in genome evolution

(2009) Andrew M Schurko et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Conserved Meiotic Genes Point to Sex in the Choanoflagellates

(2009) MARTIN CARR et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Human Dna2 Is a Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance Protein

(2009) J. P. Duxin et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

(2009) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

On the Origin of Sexual Reproduction

(2009) C. Zimmer   SCIENCE

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Using a meiosis detection toolkit to investigate ancient asexual “scandals” and the evolution of sex

(2008) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   BIOESSAYS

BRCA1 Is Required for Meiotic Spindle Assembly and Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Activation in Mouse Oocytes1

(2008) Bo Xiong et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Forkhead-Associated Domain of Yeast Xrs2, a Homolog of Human Nbs1, Promotes Nonhomologous End Joining Through Interaction With a Ligase IV Partner Protein, Lif1

(2008) K. Matsuzaki et al.   GENETICS

Sexual and vegetative phases in the planktonic diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata

(2008) Domenico D’Alelio et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Meiosis in Aspergillus nidulans: Another example for lacking synaptonemal complexes in the absence of crossover interference

(2008) MICHIKO EGEL-MITANI et al.   HEREDITAS

DNA double-strand breaks, but not crossovers, are required for the reorganization of meiotic nuclei in Tetrahymena

(2008) K. Mochizuki et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

(2008) Chris Bowler et al.   NATURE

Evolution of centric diatoms inferred from patterns of oogenesis and spermatogenesis

(2008) Makoto Mizuno   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Physiological and Transcriptomic Evidence for a Close Coupling between Chloroplast Ontogeny and Cell Cycle Progression in the Pennate Diatom Seminavis robusta

(2008) J. Gillard et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

An Expanded Inventory of Conserved Meiotic Genes Provides Evidence for Sex in Trichomonas vaginalis

(2008) Shehre-Banoo Malik et al.   PLoS One

The Parasexual Cycle in Candida albicans Provides an Alternative Pathway to Meiosis for the Formation of Recombinant Strains

(2008) Anja Forche et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

ZIP4H (TEX11) Deficiency in the Mouse Impairs Meiotic Double Strand Break Repair and the Regulation of Crossing Over

(2008) Carrie A. Adelman et al.   PLoS Genetics

ZHP-3 Acts at Crossovers to Couple Meiotic Recombination with Synaptonemal Complex Disassembly and Bivalent Formation in C. elegans

(2008) Needhi Bhalla et al.   PLoS Genetics