Eukaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfer gives rise to genome mosaicism in euglenids

A phylogenetic mosaic plastid proteome and unusual plastid-targeting signals in the green-colored dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum

(2010) Marianne A Minge et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Did Trypanosomatid Parasites Contain a Eukaryotic Alga–Derived Plastid in Their Evolutionary Past?

(2010) Andrzej Bodył et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Phylogenomic Evidence for Separate Acquisition of Plastids in Cryptophytes, Haptophytes, and Stramenopiles

(2010) D. Baurain et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Algal Genes in the Closest Relatives of Animals

(2010) G. Sun et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids

(2010) J. Janouskovec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Convergent evolution of similar enzymatic function on different protein folds: The hexokinase, ribokinase, and galactokinase families of sugar kinases

(2010) Peer Bork et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Broadly Sampled Multigene Analyses Yield a Well-Resolved Eukaryotic Tree of Life

(2010) Laura Wegener Parfrey et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Translation factor LepA contributes to tellurite resistance in Escherichia coli but plays no apparent role in the fidelity of protein synthesis

(2009) Shinichiro Shoji et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Sizing up the genomic footprint of endosymbiosis

(2009) Marek Elias et al.   BIOESSAYS

Cyanobacterial contribution to the genomes of the plastid-lacking protists

(2009) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chromalveolates and the Evolution of Plastids by Secondary Endosymbiosis

(2009) PATRICK J. KEELING   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Gene Sampling Can Bias Multi-Gene Phylogenetic Inferences: The Relationship between Red Algae and Green Plants as a Case Study

(2009) Y. Inagaki et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Expanded phylogenies of canonical and non-canonical types of methionine adenosyltransferase reveal a complex history of these gene families in eukaryotes

(2009) Ryoma Kamikawa et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic positions of Glaucophyta, green plants (Archaeplastida) and Haptophyta (Chromalveolata) as deduced from slowly evolving nuclear genes

(2009) Hisayoshi Nozaki et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular Phylogeny and Description of the Novel Katablepharid Roombia truncata gen. et sp. nov., and Establishment of the Hacrobia Taxon nov

(2009) Noriko Okamoto et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

(2009) V. Hampl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms

(2009) A. Moustafa et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenomics reveals a new 'megagroup' including most photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2008) F. Burki et al.   Biology Letters

Origins of a cyanobacterial 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in plastid-lacking eukaryotes

(2008) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Multiple Genes of Apparent Algal Origin Suggest Ciliates May Once Have Been Photosynthetic

(2008) Adrian Reyes-Prieto et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Organelle Evolution: What's in a Name?

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A New Divergent Type of Eukaryotic Methionine Adenosyltransferase is Present in Multiple Distantly Related Secondary Algal Lineages

(2008) GABINO F. SANCHEZ-PEREZ et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Triosephosphate Isomerase Genes in Two Trophic Modes of Euglenoids (Euglenophyceae) and Their Phylogenetic Analysis

(2008) GUI-LING SUN et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

A HYPOTHESIS FOR PLASTID EVOLUTION IN CHROMALVEOLATES1

(2008) M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Plastid-Derived Genes in the Nonphotosynthetic Alveolate Oxyrrhis marina

(2008) C. H. Slamovits et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Chloroplast Genomes of the Green Algae Pyramimonas, Monomastix, and Pycnococcus Shed New light on the Evolutionary History of Prasinophytes and the Origin of the Secondary Chloroplasts of Euglenids

(2008) Monique Turmel et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ancient Recruitment by Chromists of Green Algal Genes Encoding Enzymes for Carotenoid Biosynthesis

(2008) R. Frommolt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Cryptic Algal Group Unveiled: A Plastid Biosynthesis Pathway in the Oyster Parasite Perkinsus marinus

(2008) M. Matsuzaki et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A photosynthetic alveolate closely related to apicomplexan parasites

(2008) Robert B. Moore et al.   NATURE

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY