Getting a better picture of microbial evolution en route to a network of genomes

Plastid Evolution

(2008) Sven B. Gould et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

The Last Universal Common Ancestor: emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner

(2008) Nicolas Glansdorff et al.   Biology Direct

Evidence of a chimeric genome in the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids

(2008) Jeferson Gross et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Chloroplast Protein Translocation Complexes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: A Bioinformatic Comparison of Toc and Tic Components in Plants, Green Algae and Red Algae

(2008) M. Kalanon et al.   GENETICS

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

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

Reticulate Representation of Evolutionary and Functional Relationships between Phage Genomes

(2008) G. Lima-Mendez et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genes of Cyanobacterial Origin in Plant Nuclear Genomes Point to a Heterocyst-Forming Plastid Ancestor

(2008) O. Deusch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life

(2008) William Martin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica

(2008) M. E. Rumpho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution

(2008) T. Dagan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts

(2008) S. Puthiyaveetil et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

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

The prokaryotic tree of life: past, present…and future?

(2008) James O. McInerney et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

(2008) Christopher E. Lane et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Implausibility of Metabolic Cycles on the Prebiotic Earth

(2008) Leslie E Orgel   PLOS BIOLOGY

Numt-Mediated Double-Strand Break Repair Mitigates Deletions during Primate Genome Evolution

(2008) Einat Hazkani-Covo et al.   PLoS Genetics