Insights into an Extensively Fragmented Eukaryotic Genome: De Novo Genome Sequencing of the Multinuclear Ciliate Uroleptopsis citrina

N 6 -methyladenine DNA modification in the unicellular eukaryotic organism Tetrahymena thermophila

(2017) Yuanyuan Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Diversity of free-living marine ciliates (Alveolata, Ciliophora): Faunal studies in coastal waters of China during the years 2011–2016

(2017) Weiwei Liu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphologic and phylogenetic studies of two hypotrichous ciliates, with notes on morphogenesis in Gastrostyla steinii Engelmann, 1862 (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

(2017) Xiaotian Luo et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

A comparative study of genome organization and epigenetic mechanisms in model ciliates, with an emphasis on Tetrahymena , Paramecium and Oxytricha

(2017) Yurui Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

N6-adenine DNA methylation is associated with the linker DNA of H2A.Z-containing well-positioned nucleosomes in Pol II-transcribed genes in Tetrahymena

(2017) Yuanyuan Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Disentangling sources of variation in SSU rDNA sequences from single cell analyses of ciliates: impact of copy number variation and experimental error

(2017) Chundi Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic Codes with No Dedicated Stop Codon: Context-Dependent Translation Termination

(2016) Estienne Carl Swart et al.   CELL

Redescription of two little-known urostyloid ciliates, Anteholosticha randani (Grolière, 1975) Berger, 2003 and A. antecirrata Berger, 2006 (Ciliophora, Urostylida)

(2016) Yangbo Fan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology, morphogenesis and molecular phylogeny of a novel saline soil ciliate, Lamtostyla salina n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)

(2016) Jingyi Dong et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology, ontogeny and molecular phylogeny of a novel saline soil ciliate, Urosomoida paragiliformis n. sp. (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia)

(2016) Jingyi Wang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Rapid dynamics of general transcription factor TFIIB binding during preinitiation complex assembly revealed by single-molecule analysis

(2016) Zhengjian Zhang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Actin evolution in ciliates (Protist, Alveolata) is characterized by high diversity and three duplication events

(2016) Zhenzhen Yi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Multigene-based phylogeny of the ciliate families Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae (Protozoa: Ciliophora: Hypotrichia)

(2016) Jie Huang et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Histone methyltransferase TXR1 is required for both H3 and H3.3 lysine 27 methylation in the well-known ciliated protist Tetrahymena thermophila

(2016) Xiaolu Zhao et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Morphology and phylogeny of two new ciliates, Sterkiella sinica sp. nov. and Rubrioxytricha tsinlingensis sp. nov. (Protozoa, Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) from north-west China

(2016) Lingyun Chen et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Structure of the germline genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and relationship to the massively rearranged somatic genome

(2016) Eileen P Hamilton et al.   eLife

The All-Data-Based Evolutionary Hypothesis of Ciliated Protists with a Revised Classification of the Phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata)

(2016) Feng Gao et al.   Scientific Reports

Analyses of Alternatively Processed Genes in Ciliates Provide Insights into the Origins of Scrambled Genomes and May Provide a Mechanism for Speciation

(2015) Feng Gao et al.   mBio

Genome of the facultative scuticociliatosis pathogen Pseudocohnilembus persalinus provides insight into its virulence through horizontal gene transfer

(2015) Jie Xiong et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenomics of non-model ciliates based on transcriptomic analyses

(2015) Xiao Chen et al.   Protein & Cell

The Architecture of a Scrambled Genome Reveals Massive Levels of Genomic Rearrangement during Development

(2014) Xiao Chen et al.   CELL

Insights into Three Whole-Genome Duplications Gleaned from the Paramecium caudatum Genome Sequence

(2014) Casey L. McGrath et al.   GENETICS

The Draft Assembly of the Radically Organized Stylonychia lemnae Macronuclear Genome

(2014) Samuel H. Aeschlimann et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

(2013) Alexey Gurevich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genomes on the Edge: Programmed Genome Instability in Ciliates

(2013) John R. Bracht et al.   CELL

Impaired replication elongation in Tetrahymena mutants deficient in histone H3 Lys 27 monomethylation

(2013) S. Gao et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

A Model for the Evolution of Extremely Fragmented Macronuclei in Ciliates

(2013) David W. Morgens et al.   PLoS One

The Oxytricha trifallax Macronuclear Genome: A Complex Eukaryotic Genome with 16,000 Tiny Chromosomes

(2013) Estienne C. Swart et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

The Paramecium Germline Genome Provides a Niche for Intragenic Parasitic DNA: Evolutionary Dynamics of Internal Eliminated Sequences

(2012) Olivier Arnaiz et al.   PLoS Genetics

SOAPdenovo2: an empirically improved memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler

(2012) Ruibang Luo et al.   GigaScience

Evolutionary dynamics of a conserved sequence motif in the ribosomal genes of the ciliate Paramecium

(2010) Francesco Catania et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic positions and taxonomic assignments of the systematically controversial genera,Spirotrachelostyla,UroleptopsisandTunicothrix(Protozoa, Ciliophora, Stichotrichia) based on small subunit rRNA gene sequences

(2010) Jie Huang et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching

(2009) T. L. Bailey et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Macronuclear genome structure of the ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis: Single-gene chromosomes and tiny introns

(2008) Guénola Ricard et al.   BMC GENOMICS