Transitions between marine and freshwater environments provide new clues about the origins of multicellular plants and algae

Prasiolales (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) of the Svalbard Archipelago: diversity, biogeography and description of the new generaPrasionellaandPrasionema

(2016) Svenja Heesch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Multigene phylogeny of the red algal subclass Nemaliophycidae

(2016) Daryl W. Lam et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea

(2016) Jeanine L. Olsen et al.   NATURE

First freshwater coralline alga and the role of local features in a major biome transition

(2016) A. Žuljević et al.   Scientific Reports

Barcoding of Cryptic Stages of Marine Brown Algae Isolated from Incubated Substratum Reveals High Diversity in Acinetosporaceae (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae)1

(2015) Akira F. Peters et al.   CRYPTOGAMIE ALGOLOGIE

Ulvella tongshanensis (Ulvellaceae, Chlorophyta), a new freshwater species from China, and an emended morphological circumscription of the genus Ulvella

(2015) Huan Zhu et al.   Fottea

Evidence of ancient genome reduction in red algae (Rhodophyta)

(2015) Huan Qiu et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

(2015) Charles H. Wellman et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Salt tolerance at single cell level in giant-celled Characeae

(2015) Mary J. Beilby   Frontiers in Plant Science

Monoclonal Antibodies Directed to Fucoidan Preparations from Brown Algae

(2015) Thomas A. Torode et al.   PLoS One

An Updated Classification of Brown Algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae)

(2014) Thomas Silberfeld et al.   CRYPTOGAMIE ALGOLOGIE

The Mitochondrial Genomes of the Glaucophytes Gloeochaete wittrockiana and Cyanoptyche gloeocystis: Multilocus Phylogenetics Suggests a Monophyletic Archaeplastida

(2014) Christopher J. Jackson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Distribution, seasonality and putative origin of the non-native red alga Bangia atropurpurea (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) in the Laurentian Great Lakes

(2014) Troina B. Shea et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Origin and Evolution of Plastids and Photosynthesis in Eukaryotes

(2014) G. I. McFadden   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The plastid ancestor originated among one of the major cyanobacterial lineages

(2014) Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda et al.   Nature Communications

Origin and early evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes in freshwater environments: reinterpreting proterozoic paleobiology and biogeochemical processes in light of trait evolution

(2013) Carrine E. Blank   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida

(2013) J. Collen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Discovery of the Rare Freshwater Brown AlgaPleurocladialacustris(Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) in California Streams

(2013) John D. Wehr et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

Tolypella salinaR. Cor. on the French Atlantic coast: biology and ecology

(2013) Elisabeth Lambert et al.   ACTA BOTANICA GALLICA

Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae

(2012) Frederik Leliaert et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Fucus cottonii(Fucales, Phaeophyceae) is not a single genetic entity but a convergent salt-marsh morphotype with multiple independent origins

(2012) João Neiva et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

(2012) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Morphology and Phylogenetic Position of the Freshwater Green MicroalgaeChlorochytrium(Chlorophyceae) andScotinosphaera(Scotinosphaerales, ord. nov., Ulvophyceae)

(2012) Pavel Škaloud et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Why are there so few fish in the sea?

(2012) G. Carrete Vega et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the genus Rhodella, the emended orders Dixoniellales and Rhodellales with a new order Glaucosphaerales (Rhodellophyceae, Rhodophyta)

(2012) Joe Scott et al.   ALGAE

Into the deep: New discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny

(2011) Frederik Leliaert et al.   BIOESSAYS

Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Systematics and evolutionary history of pyrenoid-bearing taxa in brown algae (Phaeophyceae)

(2011) Thomas Silberfeld et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

ISOLATION AND TEMPORAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF FRESHWATER-INDUCED GENES IN ULVA LIMNETICA (ULVALES, CHLOROPHYTA)1

(2011) Kensuke Ichihara et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

POLYPHYLY OF CHAETOPHORA AND STIGEOCLONIUM WITHIN THE CHAETOPHORALES (CHLOROPHYCEAE), REVEALED BY SEQUENCE COMPARISONS OF NUCLEAR-ENCODED SSU rRNA GENES1

(2011) Lenka Caisová et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

TRUE IDENTITY OF THE EUROPEAN FRESHWATER ULVA (CHLOROPHYTA, ULVOPHYCEAE) REVEALED BY A COMBINED MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH1

(2011) Jan Mareš et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

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

Complex phylogenetic distribution of a non-canonical genetic code in green algae

(2010) Ellen Cocquyt et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Geology and Metallogeny of Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits: Variations through Geologic Time and with Tectonic Setting

(2010) D. L. Huston et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

Ecophysiological performance of an urban strain of the aeroterrestrial green algaKlebsormidiumsp. (Klebsormidiales, Klebsormidiophyceae)

(2010) Ulf Karsten et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

AN UNRECOGNIZED ANCIENT LINEAGE OF GREEN PLANTS PERSISTS IN DEEP MARINE WATERS1

(2010) Frederick W. Zechman et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Evolution and Cytological Diversification of the Green Seaweeds (Ulvophyceae)

(2010) E. Cocquyt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the brown algae (Heterokonta, Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae): Investigating the evolutionary nature of the “brown algal crown radiation”

(2010) Thomas Silberfeld et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Molecular Genetic Timescale for the Diversification of Autotrophic Stramenopiles (Ochrophyta): Substantive Underestimation of Putative Fossil Ages

(2010) Joseph W. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

(2009) Burkhard Becker et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

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

Infrequent marine–freshwater transitions in the microbial world

(2009) Ramiro Logares et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Terrestrial algae of hypersaline environments of the Central Syvash islands (Kherson Region, Ukraine)

(2008) Oxana Vinogradova et al.   BIOLOGIA

Megaphylogeny, Cell Body Plans, Adaptive Zones: Causes and Timing of Eukaryote Basal Radiations

(2008) THOMAS CAVALIER-SMITH   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY