Phylogenetic analysis of the core histone doublet and DNA topo II genes of Marseilleviridae: evidence of proto-eukaryotic provenance

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The Large Marseillevirus Explores Different Entry Pathways by Forming Giant Infectious Vesicles

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Arguments Reinforcing the Three-Domain View of Diversified Cellular Life

(2016) Arshan Nasir et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Nucleosomes impede Cas9 access to DNA in vivo and in vitro

(2016) Max A Horlbeck et al.   eLife

Unusual biology across a group comprising more than 15% of domain Bacteria

(2015) Christopher T. Brown et al.   NATURE

Origins and evolution of viruses of eukaryotes: The ultimate modularity

(2015) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   VIROLOGY

CenH3 evolution in diploids and polyploids of three angiosperm genera

(2014) Rick E Masonbrink et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Discovery of Unconventional Kinetochores in Kinetoplastids

(2014) Bungo Akiyoshi et al.   CELL

An Alternative Root for the Eukaryote Tree of Life

(2014) Ding He et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genome Analysis of the First Marseilleviridae Representative from Australia Indicates that Most of Its Genes Contribute to Virus Fitness

(2014) G. Doutre et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Phylogenomic Test of the Hypotheses for the Evolutionary Origin of Eukaryotes

(2014) Nicolas C. Rochette et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Characterization of twoCENH3genes and their roles in wheat evolution

(2014) Jing Yuan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Searching for new branches on the tree of life

(2014) T. Woyke et al.   SCIENCE

The expanding family Marseilleviridae

(2014) Sarah Aherfi et al.   VIROLOGY

Origin of giant viruses from smaller DNA viruses not from a fourth domain of cellular life

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Recurrent loss of CenH3 is associated with independent transitions to holocentricity in insects

(2014) Ines A Drinnenberg et al.   eLife

Evolution of Codon Usage in the Smallest Photosynthetic Eukaryotes and Their Giant Viruses

(2013) Stephanie Michely et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

First Isolation of a Marseillevirus in the Diptera SyrphidaeEristalis tenax

(2013) Mondher Boughalmi et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic evidence for ameiotic evolution in the bdelloid rotifer Adineta vaga

(2013) Jean-François Flot et al.   NATURE

Topoisomerase II regulates yeast genes with singular chromatin architectures

(2013) Christoforos Nikolaou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogeny as the basis for naming histones

(2013) Paul B. Talbert et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Complete genome sequence of Cannes 8 virus, a new member of the proposed family “Marseilleviridae”

(2013) Sarah Aherfi et al.   VIRUS GENES

Evolutionary cell biology of chromosome segregation: insights from trypanosomes

(2013) B. Akiyoshi et al.   Open Biology

The unconventional structure of centromeric nucleosomes

(2012) Steven Henikoff et al.   CHROMOSOMA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Chromatin is an ancient innovation conserved between Archaea and Eukarya

(2012) Ron Ammar et al.   eLife

Characterization of CENH3 proteins and centromere-associated DNA sequences in diploid and allotetraploid Brassica species

(2011) Guixiang Wang et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets

(2011) Vincent Thomas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Large Nucleo-Cytoplasmic DNA Viruses

(2010) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   INTERVIROLOGY

CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) P. Horvath et al.   SCIENCE

The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics

(2010) Eugene V Koonin   GENOME BIOLOGY

Four histone variants mark the boundaries of polycistronic transcription units in Trypanosoma brucei

(2009) T. N. Siegel et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms

(2009) M. Boyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: Clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution

(2009) Natalya Yutin et al.   Virology Journal

Phylogenomics of Unusual Histone H2A Variants in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2009) Karine Van Doninck et al.   PLoS Genetics

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Topoisomerase II: a fitted mechanism for the chromatin landscape

(2008) J. Roca   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH