Gwenael Piganeau

Summary

Affiliation: Laboratoire Arago
Country: France

Publications

  1. ncbi A broad survey of recombination in animal mitochondria
    Gwenael Piganeau
    Centre for the Study of Evolution, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    Mol Biol Evol 21:2319-25. 2004
  2. ncbi How and why DNA barcodes underestimate the diversity of microbial eukaryotes
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls sur Mer, France
    PLoS ONE 6:e16342. 2011
  3. ncbi Unravelling cis-regulatory elements in the genome of the smallest photosynthetic eukaryote: phylogenetic footprinting in Ostreococcus
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7621, Laboratoire Arago, 66651 Banyuls mer, France
    J Mol Evol 69:249-59. 2009
  4. ncbi Evidence for variation in the effective population size of animal mitochondrial DNA
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls mer, France
    PLoS ONE 4:e4396. 2009
  5. ncbi Genome diversity in the smallest marine photosynthetic eukaryotes
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, Observatoire Oceanologique, Avenue du Fontaulé, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer, France
    Res Microbiol 162:570-7. 2011
  6. ncbi Picoeukaryotic sequences in the Sargasso sea metagenome
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, F 66651, Banyuls mer, France
    Genome Biol 9:R5. 2008
  7. ncbi Screening the Sargasso Sea metagenome for data to investigate genome evolution in Ostreococcus (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta)
    Gwenael Piganeau
    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie PARIS6, Laboratoire Arago, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer Cedex, France
    Gene 406:184-90. 2007
  8. ncbi Marine prasinovirus genomes show low evolutionary divergence and acquisition of protein metabolism genes by horizontal gene transfer
    Herve Moreau
    UPMC Université de Paris 06, FRE 3355, Observatoire Oceanologique, Avenue du Fontaulé, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer, France
    J Virol 84:12555-63. 2010
  9. ncbi Clues about the genetic basis of adaptation emerge from comparing the proteomes of two Ostreococcus ecotypes (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae)
    Séverine Jancek
    UPMC University of Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls mer, France
    Mol Biol Evol 25:2293-300. 2008
  10. ncbi Life-cycle and genome of OtV5, a large DNA virus of the pelagic marine unicellular green alga Ostreococcus tauri
    Evelyne Derelle
    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 06, Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls sur Mer, France
    PLoS ONE 3:e2250. 2008

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Publications13

  1. ncbi A broad survey of recombination in animal mitochondria
    Gwenael Piganeau
    Centre for the Study of Evolution, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    Mol Biol Evol 21:2319-25. 2004
    ..For others, it cannot be determined whether the recombinants are real or produced by laboratory error. Either way, the results have important implications for how mtDNA is sequenced and used...
  2. ncbi How and why DNA barcodes underestimate the diversity of microbial eukaryotes
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls sur Mer, France
    PLoS ONE 6:e16342. 2011
    ..However, a species delimited by its 18S rDNA sequence might contain many cryptic species, which are highly differentiated in their protein coding sequences...
  3. ncbi Unravelling cis-regulatory elements in the genome of the smallest photosynthetic eukaryote: phylogenetic footprinting in Ostreococcus
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7621, Laboratoire Arago, 66651 Banyuls mer, France
    J Mol Evol 69:249-59. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Evidence for variation in the effective population size of animal mitochondrial DNA
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls mer, France
    PLoS ONE 4:e4396. 2009
    ....
  5. ncbi Genome diversity in the smallest marine photosynthetic eukaryotes
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7232, Observatoire Oceanologique, Avenue du Fontaulé, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer, France
    Res Microbiol 162:570-7. 2011
    ..They all possess two unusual chromosomes, with lower GC content and atypical gene content, whose function so far remains enigmatic...
  6. ncbi Picoeukaryotic sequences in the Sargasso sea metagenome
    Gwenael Piganeau
    UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, F 66651, Banyuls mer, France
    Genome Biol 9:R5. 2008
    ....
  7. ncbi Screening the Sargasso Sea metagenome for data to investigate genome evolution in Ostreococcus (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta)
    Gwenael Piganeau
    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie PARIS6, Laboratoire Arago, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer Cedex, France
    Gene 406:184-90. 2007
    ..tauri. We used this environmental Ostreococcus sequence data to estimate the level of constraint on intronic and intergenic sequences in this compact genome...
  8. ncbi Marine prasinovirus genomes show low evolutionary divergence and acquisition of protein metabolism genes by horizontal gene transfer
    Herve Moreau
    UPMC Université de Paris 06, FRE 3355, Observatoire Oceanologique, Avenue du Fontaulé, BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer, France
    J Virol 84:12555-63. 2010
    ....
  9. ncbi Clues about the genetic basis of adaptation emerge from comparing the proteomes of two Ostreococcus ecotypes (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae)
    Séverine Jancek
    UPMC University of Paris 06, UMR 7628, MBCE, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls mer, France
    Mol Biol Evol 25:2293-300. 2008
    ....
  10. ncbi Life-cycle and genome of OtV5, a large DNA virus of the pelagic marine unicellular green alga Ostreococcus tauri
    Evelyne Derelle
    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 06, Laboratoire Arago, Banyuls sur Mer, France
    PLoS ONE 3:e2250. 2008
    ....
  11. ncbi Cryptic sex in the smallest eukaryotic marine green alga
    Nigel Grimsley
    Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7621, LOBB, Observatoire Oceanologique, Banyuls mer, France
    Mol Biol Evol 27:47-54. 2010
    ..9-microm(3) cellular volume...
  12. ncbi Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features
    Evelyne Derelle
    , Laboratoire Arago, , , BP44, 66651 Banyuls sur Mer Cedex, France
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11647-52. 2006
    ..Taken together, the complete genome sequence, unusual features, and downsized gene families, make O. tauri an ideal model system for research on eukaryotic genome evolution, including chromosome specialization and green lineage ancestry...
  13. ncbi An investigation of the variation in the transition bias among various animal mitochondrial DNA
    Elise M S Belle
    Centre for the Study of Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, BN1 9QG Brighton, United Kingdom
    Gene 355:58-66. 2005
    ..We find no evidence in support of the hypothesis that this variation could be due to different metabolic rates...