Role of Modular Polyketide Synthases in the Production of Polyether Ladder Compounds in Ciguatoxin-Producing Gambierdiscus polynesiensis and G. excentricus (Dinophyceae)

Evolutionary distinctiveness of fatty acid and polyketide synthesis in eukaryotes

(2016) Gurjeet S Kohli et al.   ISME Journal

Transcriptomic characterisation and genomic glimps into the toxigenic dinoflagellate Azadinium spinosum, with emphasis on polykeitde synthase genes

(2015) Jan M Meyer et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Polyketide synthesis genes associated with toxin production in two species of Gambierdiscus (Dinophyceae)

(2015) Gurjeet S. Kohli et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Multifunctional polyketide synthase genes identified by genomic survey of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Symbiodinium minutum

(2015) Girish Beedessee et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Gene duplication, loss and selection in the evolution of saxitoxin biosynthesis in alveolates

(2015) Shauna A. Murray et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Morphology ofGambierdiscus excentricus(Dinophyceae) with emphasis on sulcal plates

(2015) Silvia Mattos Nascimento et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

The Symbiodinium kawagutii genome illuminates dinoflagellate gene expression and coral symbiosis

(2015) S. Lin et al.   SCIENCE

RNA Sequencing Revealed Numerous Polyketide Synthase Genes in the Harmful Dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi

(2015) Kei Kimura et al.   PLoS One

De novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome of the toxic dinoflagellate Karenia brevis

(2014) Darcie E Ryan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Production of ciguatoxin and maitotoxin by strains of Gambierdiscus australes, G. pacificus and G. polynesiensis (Dinophyceae) isolated from Rarotonga, Cook Islands

(2014) Lesley Rhodes et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

Transcriptome sequencing reveals single domain Type I-like polyketide synthases in the toxic dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus polynesiensis

(2014) R. Pawlowiez et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

CDD: NCBI's conserved domain database

(2014) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years

(2014) Alex Mitchell et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genus Gambierdiscus in the Canary Islands (NE Atlantic Ocean) with Description of Gambierdiscus silvae sp. nov., a New Potentially Toxic Epiphytic Benthic Dinoflagellate

(2014) Santiago Fraga et al.   PROTIST

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

Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

(2013) Eiichi Shoguchi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genetic Diversity and Distribution of the Ciguatera-Causing Dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus spp. (Dinophyceae) in Coastal Areas of Japan

(2013) Tomohiro Nishimura et al.   PLoS One

Gambieroxide, a novel epoxy polyether compound from the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus GTP2 strain

(2013) Ryuichi Watanabe et al.   TETRAHEDRON

Differences in the toxicity of six Gambierdiscus (Dinophyceae) species measured using an in vitro human erythrocyte lysis assay

(2013) William C. Holland et al.   TOXICON

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Dozens of Toxin-Related Genes Are Expressed in a Nontoxic Strain of the Dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama

(2012) Tovah Salcedo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Full Suite of Histone and Histone Modifying Genes Are Transcribed in the Dinoflagellate Lingulodinium

(2012) Sougata Roy et al.   PLoS One

Symbiodinium Transcriptomes: Genome Insights into the Dinoflagellate Symbionts of Reef-Building Corals

(2012) Till Bayer et al.   PLoS One

When Naked Became Armored: An Eight-Gene Phylogeny Reveals Monophyletic Origin of Theca in Dinoflagellates

(2012) Russell J. S. Orr et al.   PLoS One

Putative Monofunctional Type I Polyketide Synthase Units: A Dinoflagellate-Specific Feature?

(2012) Karsten Eichholz et al.   PLoS One

The occurrence of the ciguatera fish poisoning producing dinoflagellate genus Gambierdiscus in Pakistan waters

(2012) Sonia Munir et al.   ALGAE

Gambierdiscus excentricus sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), a benthic toxic dinoflagellate from the Canary Islands (NE Atlantic Ocean)

(2011) Santiago Fraga et al.   HARMFUL ALGAE

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

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

First report of the benthic dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus belizeanus (Gonyaulacales: Dinophyceae) for the east coast of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

(2011) Chui-Pin Leaw et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Discovery of Nuclear-Encoded Genes for the Neurotoxin Saxitoxin in Dinoflagellates

(2011) Anke Stüken et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Characterization of the Toxigenic Marine Dinoflagellate Alexandrium ostenfeldii

(2011) Nina Jaeckisch et al.   PLoS One

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Pacific Islands (1998 to 2008)

(2011) Mark P. Skinner et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

CD-HIT Suite: a web server for clustering and comparing biological sequences

(2010) Ying Huang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Global distribution of ciguatera causing dinoflagellates in the genus Gambierdiscus

(2010) R. Wayne Litaker et al.   TOXICON

Taxonomy of Gambierdiscus including four new species, Gambierdiscus caribaeus, Gambierdiscus carolinianus, Gambierdiscus carpenteri and Gambierdiscus ruetzleri (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae)

(2009) R. Wayne Litaker et al.   PHYCOLOGIA

Distinct Gene Number-Genome Size Relationships for Eukaryotes and Non-Eukaryotes: Gene Content Estimation for Dinoflagellate Genomes

(2009) Yubo Hou et al.   PLoS One

Biosynthesis of toxic naturally-occurring seafood contaminants

(2009) John A. Kalaitzis et al.   TOXICON

Characteristic profiles of Ciguatera toxins in different strains of Gambierdiscus spp.

(2009) Karin Roeder et al.   TOXICON

Toxic dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) from Rarotonga, Cook Islands

(2009) Lesley L. Rhodes et al.   TOXICON

Growth and toxin production in the ciguatera-causing dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus polynesiensis (Dinophyceae) in culture

(2009) Mireille Chinain et al.   TOXICON

Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Treatment, Prevention and Management

(2008) Melissa Friedman et al.   Marine Drugs

High-throughput functional annotation and data mining with the Blast2GO suite

(2008) S. Gotz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Toxic Dinoflagellate Karenia brevis Encodes Novel Type I-like Polyketide Synthases Containing Discrete Catalytic Domains

(2008) Emily A. Monroe et al.   PROTIST

Novel Insights into Evolution of Protistan Polyketide Synthases through Phylogenomic Analysis

(2007) Uwe John et al.   PROTIST