The Evolution of Silicon Transport in Eukaryotes

A role for diatom-like silicon transporters in calcifying coccolithophores

(2016) Grażyna M. Durak et al.   Nature Communications

Silicon: The evolution of its use in biomaterials

(2015) J.R. Henstock et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Structure of a eukaryotic SWEET transporter in a homotrimeric complex

(2015) Yuyong Tao et al.   NATURE

Horsetails Are Ancient Polyploids: Evidence fromEquisetum giganteum

(2015) Kevin Vanneste et al.   PLANT CELL

Aquaporins Mediate Silicon Transport in Humans

(2015) Alexandre P. Garneau et al.   PLoS One

Glassin, a histidine-rich protein from the siliceous skeletal system of the marine spongeEuplectella, directs silica polycondensation

(2015) Katsuhiko Shimizu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Four hundred million years of silica biomineralization in land plants

(2015) Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

(2015) S. Sunagawa et al.   SCIENCE

A cooperative system of silicon transport in plants

(2015) Jian Feng Ma et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Evidence for a Regulatory Role of Diatom Silicon Transporters in Cellular Silicon Responses

(2014) Roshan P. Shrestha et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Eukaryotic Tree of Life from a Global Phylogenomic Perspective

(2014) F. Burki   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses

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

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

aLeaves facilitates on-demand exploration of metazoan gene family trees on MAFFT sequence alignment server with enhanced interactivity

(2013) Shigehiro Kuraku et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Functional role of oligomerization for bacterial and plant SWEET sugar transporter family

(2013) Y. H. Xuan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Priming of jasmonate-mediated antiherbivore defense responses in rice by silicon

(2013) M. Ye et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A family of diatom-like silicon transporters in the siliceous loricate choanoflagellates

(2013) A. O. Marron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multigene Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa) Corroborates Four of the Six Major Lineages, while Additionally Revealing that Shell Composition Does not Predict Phylogeny in the Arcellinida

(2013) Daniel J.G. Lahr et al.   PROTIST

PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Expression, Purification, and Reconstitution of a Diatom Silicon Transporter

(2012) Paul Curnow et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Whole transcriptome analysis of the silicon response of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

(2012) Roshan Shrestha et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

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

Coccolithogenesis InScyphosphaera apsteinii(Prymnesiophyceae)

(2012) Brandon Drescher et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Fixed, free, and fixed: The fickle phylogeny of extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) and their Permian–Triassic origin

(2012) Greg W. Rouse et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Significant silicon accumulation by marine picocyanobacteria

(2012) Stephen B. Baines et al.   Nature Geoscience

Macroevolutionary trends in silicoflagellate skeletal morphology: the costs and benefits of silicification

(2012) Helena M. van Tol et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Discovery of a multigene family of aquaporin silicon transporters in the primitive plantEquisetum arvense

(2012) Caroline Grégoire et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Adaptive seeds tame genomic sequence comparison

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

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Protective function of silicon deposition in Saccharina japonica sporophytes (Phaeophyceae)

(2011) Hiroyuki Mizuta et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY

Higher Level Taxonomy and Molecular Phylogenetics of the Choanoflagellatea

(2011) FRANK NITSCHE et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform

(2011) Martin Kircher 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

Silicon uptake by sponges: a twist to understanding nutrient cycling on continental margins

(2011) Manuel Maldonado et al.   Scientific Reports

Silica Use Through Time: Macroevolutionary Change in the Morphology of the Diatom Fustule

(2010) Zoe V. Finkel et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Biosilicification of loricate choanoflagellate: organic composition of the nanotubular siliceous costal strips of Stephanoeca diplocostata

(2010) N. Gong et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Direct observation of the skeletal growth patterns of polycystine radiolarians using a fluorescent marker

(2010) Kaoru Ogane et al.   MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Structural perspectives on secondary active transporters

(2010) Olga Boudker et al.   TRENDS IN PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

phyloXML: XML for evolutionary biology and comparative genomics

(2009) Mira V Han et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

A Cover of Glass: First Report of Biomineralized Silicon in a Ciliate,Maryna umbrellata(Ciliophora: Colpodea)

(2009) WILHELM FOISSNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

A Time line of the Environmental Genetics of the Haptophytes

(2009) Hui Liu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MtZoa: A general mitochondrial amino acid substitutions model for animal evolutionary studies

(2009) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genome-Wide Transcriptome Analyses of Silicon Metabolism in Phaeodactylum tricornutum Reveal the Multilevel Regulation of Silicic Acid Transporters

(2009) Guillaume Sapriel et al.   PLoS One

Radiolarians decreased silicification as an evolutionary response to reduced Cenozoic ocean silica availability

(2009) D. B. Lazarus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogenic silica: a neglected component of the coupled global continental biogeochemical cycles of carbon and silicon

(2008) F. Alayne Street-Perrott et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

(2008) K. J Peterson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transporters of arsenite in rice and their role in arsenic accumulation in rice grain

(2008) J. F. Ma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controlled stabilisation of silicic acid below pH 9 using poly(1-vinylimidazole)

(2007) Vadim V. Annenkov et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Silicon Uptake in Diatoms Revisited: A Model for Saturable and Nonsaturable Uptake Kinetics and the Role of Silicon Transporters

(2007) K. Thamatrakoln et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Metalloids: essential, beneficial or toxic? Major intrinsic proteins sort it out

(2007) Gerd P. Bienert et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES