Reconstruction of Oomycete Genome Evolution Identifies Differences in Evolutionary Trajectories Leading to Present-Day Large Gene Families

How do oomycete effectors interfere with plant life?

(2011) Joost HM Stassen et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Red and Problematic Green Phylogenetic Signals among Thousands of Nuclear Genes from the Photosynthetic and Apicomplexa-Related Chromera velia

(2011) Christian Woehle et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms

(2011) Yuannian Jiao et al.   NATURE

Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes

(2011) T. A. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

(2011) S. Duplessis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics

(2011) C. J. Gobler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The inclusion of downy mildews in a multi-locus-dataset and its reanalysis reveals a high degree of paraphyly in Phytophthora

(2011) Fabian Runge et al.   IMA Fungus

The hidden duplication past of the plant pathogen Phytophthora and its consequences for infection

(2010) Cindy Martens et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The CAZyome of Phytophthora spp.: A comprehensive analysis of the gene complement coding for carbohydrate-active enzymes in species of the genus Phytophthora

(2010) Manuel D Ospina-Giraldo et al.   BMC GENOMICS

External Lipid PI3P Mediates Entry of Eukaryotic Pathogen Effectors into Plant and Animal Host Cells

(2010) Shiv D. Kale et al.   CELL

ERAD Components in Organisms with Complex Red Plastids Suggest Recruitment of a Preexisting Protein Transport Pathway for the Periplastid Membrane

(2010) Gregor Felsner et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenomic Evidence for Separate Acquisition of Plastids in Cryptophytes, Haptophytes, and Stramenopiles

(2010) D. Baurain et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Ectocarpus genome and the independent evolution of multicellularity in brown algae

(2010) J. Mark Cock et al.   NATURE

A Domain-Centric Analysis of Oomycete Plant Pathogen Genomes Reveals Unique Protein Organization

(2010) M. F. Seidl et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Signatures of Adaptation to Obligate Biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis Genome

(2010) L. Baxter et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism

(2010) P. D. Spanu et al.   SCIENCE

Genome sequence of the necrotrophic plant pathogen Pythium ultimum reveals original pathogenicity mechanisms and effector repertoire

(2010) C André Lévesque et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Cyanobacterial contribution to the genomes of the plastid-lacking protists

(2009) Shinichiro Maruyama et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?

(2009) John W Stiller et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Chromalveolates and the Evolution of Plastids by Secondary Endosymbiosis

(2009) PATRICK J. KEELING   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans

(2009) Brian J. Haas et al.   NATURE

eggNOG v2.0: extending the evolutionary genealogy of genes with enhanced non-supervised orthologous groups, species and functional annotations

(2009) J. Muller et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Multiple Horizontal Gene Transfer Events and Domain Fusions Have Created Novel Regulatory and Metabolic Networks in the Oomycete Genome

(2009) Paul Francis Morris et al.   PLoS One

Effector Trafficking: RXLR-dEER as Extra Gear for Delivery into Plant Cells

(2008) F. Govers et al.   PLANT CELL

RXLR-Mediated Entry of Phytophthora sojae Effector Avr1b into Soybean Cells Does Not Require Pathogen-Encoded Machinery

(2008) D. Dou et al.   PLANT CELL

Whole-genome analysis reveals molecular innovations and evolutionary transitions in chromalveolate species

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

RXLR effector reservoir in two Phytophthora species is dominated by a single rapidly evolving superfamily with more than 700 members

(2008) R. H. Y. Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A multi-locus phylogeny for Phytophthora utilizing markers derived from complete genome sequences

(2007) Jaime E. Blair et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY