Cytoskeletal diversification across 1 billion years: What red algae can teach us about the cytoskeleton, and vice versa

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Redefining Pyropia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta): Four New Genera, Resurrection of Porphyrella and Description of Calidia pseudolobata sp. nov. From China 1

(2020) Li‐En Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

ESCRT Machinery Mediates Cytokinetic Abscission in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

(2020) Fumi Yagisawa et al.   Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Cleavage-furrow formation without F-actin inChlamydomonas

(2020) Masayuki Onishi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pyropia yezoensis genome reveals diverse mechanisms of carbon acquisition in the intertidal environment

(2020) Dongmei Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular Mechanism of Cytokinesis

(2019) Thomas D. Pollard et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Mitotic Motor KIFC1 is an organizer of microtubules in the axon

(2019) Hemalatha Muralidharan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Analysis of an improved Cyanophora paradoxa genome assembly

(2019) Dana C Price et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Mechanisms of the Ase1/PRC1/MAP65 family in central spindle assembly

(2019) Zhen‐Yu She et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Non-photosynthetic predators are sister to red algae

(2019) Ryan M. R. Gawryluk et al.   NATURE

Multiple Independent Origins of Apicomplexan-Like Parasites

(2019) Varsha Mathur et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Identification of proteins in the adhesive trails of the diatom Amphora coffeaeformis

(2019) Martina Lachnit et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A kleptoplastidic dinoflagellate and the tipping point between transient and fully integrated plastid endosymbiosis

(2019) Elisabeth Hehenberger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Apicomplexan-like parasites are polyphyletic and widely but selectively dependent on cryptic plastid organelles

(2019) Jan Janouškovec et al.   eLife

A chromosome‐level genome assembly ofPyropia haitanensis(Bangiales, Rhodophyta)

(2019) Min Cao et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Who Needs a Contractile Actomyosin Ring? The Plethora of Alternative Ways to Divide a Protozoan Parasite

(2019) Tansy C. Hammarton   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

The New Tree of Eukaryotes

(2019) Fabien Burki et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Image-based analysis of living mammalian cells using label-free 3D refractive index maps reveals new organelle dynamics and dry mass flux

(2019) Patrick A. Sandoz et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Concise Language Promotes Clear Thinking about Cell Shape and Locomotion

(2018) Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin et al.   BIOESSAYS

Porphyra umbilicalis in applied and basic research: reproductive phenology, development, seed stock culture, and a field trial for aquaculture

(2018) Charlotte J. Royer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Analysis of the Draft Genome of the Red Seaweed Gracilariopsis chorda Provides Insights into Genome Size Evolution in Rhodophyta

(2018) JunMo Lee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Turgor Pressure and Possible Constriction Mechanisms in Bacterial Division

(2018) Masaki Osawa et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Agrobacterium-mediated gene delivery and transient expression in the red macroalga Chondrus crispus

(2018) Anusha Devi Ramessur et al.   BOTANICA MARINA

Genome of tiny predator with big appetite

(2018) Geoffrey Ian McFadden   BMC BIOLOGY

Stable nuclear transformation of rhodophyte species Porphyridium purpureum: advanced molecular tools and an optimized method

(2018) Binod Prasad et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

WASP and SCAR are evolutionarily conserved in actin-filled pseudopod-based motility

(2017) Lillian K. Fritz-Laylin et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Gliding motility powers invasion and egress in Apicomplexa

(2017) Karine Frénal et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Myosin-independent cytokinesis inGiardiautilizes flagella to coordinate force generation and direct membrane trafficking

(2017) William R. Hardin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome ofPorphyra umbilicalis(Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)

(2017) Susan H. Brawley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Algae as nutritional and functional food sources: revisiting our understanding

(2016) Mark L. Wells et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

MyTH4-FERM myosins have an ancient and conserved role in filopod formation

(2016) Karl J. Petersen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of Centrohelida, Haptophyta and Cryptista

(2016) Fabien Burki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of Cilia

(2016) David R. Mitchell   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Septin Form and Function at the Cell Cortex

(2015) Andrew A. Bridges et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Marine harmful algal blooms, human health and wellbeing: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century

(2015) Elisa Berdalet et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

The structure of the dynactin complex and its interaction with dynein

(2015) L. Urnavicius et al.   SCIENCE

Involvement of Elongation Factor-1α in Cytokinesis without Actomyosin Contractile Ring in the Primitive Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae

(2014) Yuuta Imoto et al.   CYTOLOGIA

Development of a nuclear transformation system with a codon-optimized selection marker and reporter genes in Pyropia yezoensis (Rhodophyta)

(2014) Ryo Hirata et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses

(2014) John W. Stiller et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular mechanism of protrusion formation during cell-to-cell spread of Listeria

(2014) Keith Ireton et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A non-mitotic CENP-E homolog in Dictyostelium discoideum with slow motor activity

(2013) Süleyman Kösem et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

The role and regulation of blebs in cell migration

(2013) Ewa K Paluch et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Formins at a glance

(2013) Dennis Breitsprecher et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Contributions of Turgor Pressure, the Contractile Ring, and Septum Assembly to Forces in Cytokinesis in Fission Yeast

(2012) Stephen A. Proctor et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Actin Depolymerization Drives Actomyosin Ring Contraction during Budding Yeast Cytokinesis

(2012) Inês Mendes Pinto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Fermentation enzymes of Giardia intestinalis, pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase and hydrogenase, do not localize to its mitosomes

(2011) V. V. Emelyanov et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The novel functions of kinesin motor proteins in plants

(2011) Juan Li et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Patterns of kinesin evolution reveal a complex ancestral eukaryote with a multifunctional cytoskeleton

(2010) Bill Wickstead et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

The apicoplast

(2010) Geoffrey Ian McFadden   PROTOPLASMA

Porphyra: a marine crop shaped by stress

(2010) Nicolas A. Blouin et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

AtKinesin-13A is located on Golgi-associated vesicle and involved in vesicle formation/budding in Arabidopsis root-cap peripheral cells

(2009) Liqin Wei et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Ultrastructure of mitosis and cytokinesis during spermatogenesis in Porphyra yezoensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)

(2009) Chika Ueki et al.   BOTANICA MARINA

Ca2+ influx and phosphoinositide signalling are essential for the establishment and maintenance of cell polarity in monospores from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis

(2009) L. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Plant formins: Diverse isoforms and unique molecular mechanism

(2008) Laurent Blanchoin et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity and asymmetrical accumulation of F-actin are necessary for establishment of cell polarity in the early development of monospores from the marine red alga Porphyra yezoensis

(2008) L. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The Nucleocapsid Protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Inhibits Cell Cytokinesis and Proliferation by Interacting with Translation Elongation Factor 1 

(2008) B. Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Abscisic acid controls calcium-dependent egress and development in Toxoplasma gondii

(2008) Kisaburo Nagamune et al.   NATURE

Reexamination of the Pit Plugs and the Characteristic Membranous Structures in Porphyra Yezoensis (Bangiales, Rhodophyta)

(2008) Chika Ueki et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Arabidopsis ELONGATED MITOCHONDRIA1 Is Required for Localization of DYNAMIN-RELATED PROTEIN3A to Mitochondrial Fission Sites

(2008) S.-i. Arimura et al.   PLANT CELL