Into the deep: New discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny

Origin of land plants: Do conjugating green algae hold the key?

(2011) Sabina Wodniok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host

(2011) R. Kerney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Data mining approach identifies research priorities and data requirements for resolving the red algal tree of life

(2010) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Uncovering the evolutionary origin of plant molecular processes: comparison of Coleochaete (Coleochaetales) and Spirogyra (Zygnematales) transcriptomes

(2010) Ruth E Timme et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Multigene Phylogeny of the Green Lineage Reveals the Origin and Diversification of Land Plants

(2010) Cédric Finet et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

AN UNRECOGNIZED ANCIENT LINEAGE OF GREEN PLANTS PERSISTS IN DEEP MARINE WATERS1

(2010) Frederick W. Zechman et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Taxonomy of Nephroselmis viridis sp. nov. (Nephroselmidophyceae, Chlorophyta), a sister marine species to freshwater N. olivacea

(2010) Haruyo Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Evolution and Cytological Diversification of the Green Seaweeds (Ulvophyceae)

(2010) E. Cocquyt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

TheChlorella variabilisNC64A Genome Reveals Adaptation to Photosymbiosis, Coevolution with Viruses, and Cryptic Sex

(2010) Guillaume Blanc et al.   PLANT CELL

Unraveling the Evolution of Auxin Signaling

(2010) I. De Smet et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Prasinoderma singularis sp. nov. (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta), a Solitary Coccoid Prasinophyte from the South-East Pacific Ocean

(2010) Fabien Jouenne et al.   PROTIST

Green-colored Plastids in the Dinoflagellate Genus Lepidodinium are of Core Chlorophyte Origin

(2010) Takuya Matsumoto et al.   PROTIST

Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

(2009) Burkhard Becker et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Phylogenetic analysis, structural evolution and functional divergence of the 12-oxo-phytodienoate acid reductase gene family in plants

(2009) Wenyan Li et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Photosynthetic picoeukaryote community structure in the South East Pacific Ocean encompassing the most oligotrophic waters on Earth

(2009) Cécile Lepère et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Evolution of Meiosis From Mitosis

(2009) A. S. Wilkins et al.   GENETICS

Origin and Diversification of Land Plant CC-Type Glutaredoxins

(2009) M. Ziemann et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A Comprehensive Classification and Evolutionary Analysis of Plant Homeobox Genes

(2009) K. Mukherjee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Groups without Cultured Representatives Dominate Eukaryotic Picophytoplankton in the Oligotrophic South East Pacific Ocean

(2009) Xiao Li Shi et al.   PLoS One

Modes of pre-Ediacaran multicellularity

(2009) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae

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

Molecular Phylogeny and Classification of the Mamiellophyceae class. nov. (Chlorophyta) based on Sequence Comparisons of the Nuclear- and Plastid-encoded rRNA Operons

(2009) Birger Marin et al.   PROTIST

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

(2009) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Signs of sex: what we know and how we know it

(2009) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Chromalveolate plastids: direct descent or multiple endosymbioses?

(2009) Andrzej Bodył et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plastid Evolution

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

Diversity and evolution of marine phytoplankton

(2008) Nathalie Simon et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Wide genetic diversity of picoplanktonic green algae (Chloroplastida) in the Mediterranean Sea uncovered by a phylum-biased PCR approach

(2008) Manon Viprey et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the siphonous green algae

(2008) Heroen Verbruggen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Exploring plant biodiversity: the Physcomitrella genome and beyond

(2008) Daniel Lang et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE