New rRNA Gene-Based Phylogenies of the Alphaproteobacteria Provide Perspective on Major Groups, Mitochondrial Ancestry and Phylogenetic Instability

“Candidatus Midichloriaceae” fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an Ecologically Widespread Clade of Intracellular Alphaproteobacteria

(2013) Matteo Montagna et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals

(2013) Leonidas Salichos et al.   NATURE

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Lesion bacterial communities in American lobsters with diet-induced shell disease

(2012) RA Quinn et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria

(2012) D. A. Bazylinski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Biosynthesis and Maturation of the Didemnin Anti-cancer Agents

(2012) Ying Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The SAR11 Group of Alpha-Proteobacteria Is Not Related to the Origin of Mitochondria

(2012) Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta et al.   PLoS One

Streamlining and Core Genome Conservation among Highly Divergent Members of the SAR11 Clade

(2012) J. Grote et al.   mBio

Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

(2011) D. Sassera et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Independent Genome Reduction and Phylogenetic Reclassification of the Oceanic SAR11 Clade

(2011) J. Viklund et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylometagenomic Exploration of Oceanic Alphaproteobacteria Reveals Mitochondrial Relatives Unrelated to the SAR11 Clade

(2011) Björn Brindefalk et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic Analysis of Odyssella thessalonicensis Fortifies the Common Origin of Rickettsiales, Pelagibacter ubique and Reclimonas americana Mitochondrion

(2011) Kalliopi Georgiades et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade

(2011) J. Cameron Thrash et al.   Scientific Reports

The Newick utilities: high-throughput phylogenetic tree processing in the UNIX shell

(2010) T. Junier et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Complete Genome Sequence of the Chemolithoautotrophic Marine Magnetotactic Coccus Strain MC-1

(2009) S. Schubbe et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of a magnetotactic bacterial culture from the Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Christopher T. Lefèvre et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Kiloniella laminariae gen. nov., sp. nov., an alphaproteobacterium from the marine macroalga Laminaria saccharina

(2009) J. Wiese et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Mapping the Tree of Life: Progress and Prospects

(2009) N. R. Pace   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Long-Branch Attraction Bias and Inconsistency in Bayesian Phylogenetics

(2009) Bryan Kolaczkowski et al.   PLoS One

Sneathiella glossodoripedis sp. nov., a marine alphaproteobacterium isolated from the nudibranch Glossodoris cincta, and proposal of Sneathiellales ord. nov. and Sneathiellaceae fam. nov.

(2008) M. Kurahashi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

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