Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology

Nuclear Gene Transformation in the Dinoflagellate Oxyrrhis marina

(2020) Brittany N. Sprecher et al.   Microorganisms

Swimming, gliding, and rolling toward the mainstream: cell biology of marine protists

(2019) Jackie L. Collier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast

(2019) Isabel C Nimmo et al.   eLife

Transfection ofCapsaspora owczarzaki, a close unicellular relative of animals

(2018) Helena Parra-Acero et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Transformation of Diplonema papillatum , the type species of the highly diverse and abundant marine microeukaryotes Diplonemida (Euglenozoa)

(2018) Binnypreet Kaur et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

(2018) Quentin Carradec et al.   Nature Communications

Strength in numbers: Collaborative science for new experimental model systems

(2018) Ross F. Waller et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Gene family innovation, conservation and loss on the animal stem lineage

(2018) Daniel J Richter et al.   eLife

Genetic Engineering of Crypthecodinium cohnii to Increase Growth and Lipid Accumulation

(2018) Jinjin Diao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Transfection of choanoflagellates illuminates their cell biology and the ancestry of animal septins

(2018) David S. Booth et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Predicted glycosyltransferases promote development and prevent spurious cell clumping in the choanoflagellate S. rosetta

(2018) Laura A Wetzel et al.   eLife

Puromycin selection for stable transfectants of the oyster-infecting parasite Perkinsus marinus

(2018) Hirokazu Sakamoto et al.   PARASITOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus

(2017) Thomas Mock et al.   NATURE

All New Faces of Diatoms: Potential Source of Nanomaterials and Beyond

(2017) Meerambika Mishra et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evidence-based green algal genomics reveals marine diversity and ancestral characteristics of land plants

(2016) Marijke J. van Baren et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Comparative Metabolism of Free-livingBodo saltansand Parasitic Trypanosomatids

(2016) Fred R. Opperdoes et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Editing of the urease gene by CRISPR-Cas in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

(2016) Amanda Hopes et al.   Plant Methods

A CRISPR/Cas9 system adapted for gene editing in marine algae

(2016) Marianne Nymark et al.   Scientific Reports

Establishment of Genetic Transformation in the Sexually Reproducing Diatoms Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata and Pseudo-nitzschia arenysensis and Inheritance of the Transgene

(2015) Valeria Sabatino et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

25 years of African trypanosome research: From description to molecular dissection and new drug discovery

(2015) Keith R. Matthews   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Cryptic infection of a broad taxonomic and geographic diversity of tadpoles by Perkinsea protists

(2015) Aurélie Chambouvet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

(2015) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

Designer diatom episomes delivered by bacterial conjugation

(2015) Bogumil J. Karas et al.   Nature Communications

Genome Sequence and Transcriptome Analyses of Chrysochromulina tobin: Metabolic Tools for Enhanced Algal Fitness in the Prominent Order Prymnesiales (Haptophyceae)

(2015) Blake T. Hovde et al.   PLoS Genetics

High-efficiency genome editing via 2A-coupled co-expression of fluorescent proteins and zinc finger nucleases or CRISPR/Cas9 nickase pairs

(2014) Katarzyna Duda et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Efficient gene targeting and removal of foreign DNA by homologous recombination in the picoeukaryoteOstreococcus

(2014) Jean-Claude Lozano et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Development of ichthyosporeans sheds light on the origin of metazoan multicellularity

(2013) Hiroshi Suga et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

(2013) Betsy A. Read et al.   NATURE

Signal Recognition Particle RNA in Dinoflagellates and the Perkinsid Perkinsus marinus

(2013) Huan Zhang et al.   PROTIST

Versatile Transformation System That Is Applicable to both Multiple Transgene Expression and Gene Targeting for Thraustochytrids

(2012) Keishi Sakaguchi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs

(2012) Bruce A. Curtis et al.   NATURE

High-efficiency homologous recombination in the oil-producing alga Nannochloropsis sp.

(2011) O. Kilian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TRANSIENT TRANSFORMATION OF A CHLORARACHNIOPHYTE ALGA,LOTHARELLA AMOEBIFORMIS(CHLORARACHNIOPHYCEAE), WITHuidA ANDegfpREPORTER GENES

(2008) Yoshihisa Hirakawa et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Transfection of the protozoan parasite Perkinsus marinus

(2007) José A. Fernández-Robledo et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY