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Phylogenomic analyses predict sistergroup relationship of nucleariids and fungi and paraphyly of zygomycetes with significant supportYu Liu
Robert Cedergren Centre, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BMC Evol Biol 9:272. 2009..Yet, published phylogenies with up to five genes are without compelling statistical support, and genome-level data should be used to resolve this question with confidence...- AnaBench: a Web/CORBA-based workbench for biomolecular sequence analysisElarbi Badidi
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900, Boul, Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
BMC Bioinformatics 4:63. 2003.... - AutoFACT: an automatic functional annotation and classification toolLiisa B Koski
Robert Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BMC Bioinformatics 6:151. 2005..Assignment of function to new molecular sequence data is an essential step in genomics projects. The usual process involves similarity searches of a given sequence against one or more databases, an arduous process for large datasets... 
A comparative genomics approach to the evolution of eukaryotes and their mitochondriaB F Lang
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Eukaryot Microbiol 46:320-6. 1999..Gene repertoire and gene order comparisons as well as multiple-gene phylogenies support the view of a single endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria, whose closest extant relatives are Rickettsia-type alpha-Proteobacteria...- Purification of mitochondrial and plastid DNAB Franz Lang
Departement de Biochimie, Robert Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Universite de Montreal, CP 6128, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J4
Nat Protoc 2:652-60. 2007..Procedures can be completed in 3-5 days, typically yielding a few micrograms of DNA-ample for sequencing complete genomes... - Mitochondrial introns: a critical viewB Franz Lang
Robert Cedergren Centre, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Trends Genet 23:119-25. 2007..On the basis of the results, we focus here on building a comprehensive picture of mitochondrial group I introns, including a modified (reduced) consensus RNA secondary structure and a concise phylogeny-based subclassification... - A comparison of three fission yeast mitochondrial genomesC E Bullerwell
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 31:759-68. 2003..The results of our phylogenetic analysis support the monophyly of the Schizosaccharomycetales, but question their grouping within the Archiascomycota... - Genome structure and gene content in protist mitochondrial DNAsM W Gray
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H7, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 26:865-78. 1998..Comparative analysis of protist mtDNAs is providing a new perspective on mtDNA evolution: how the original mitochondrial genome was organized, what genes it contained, and in what ways it must have changed in different eukaryotic phyla... - The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor. Two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algaeM Turmel
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Plant Cell 11:1717-30. 1999..Our results confirm the existence of two radically different patterns of mitochondrial genome evolution within the green algae... - An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniatureB F Lang
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nature 387:493-7. 1997..americana mtDNA more closely resembles the ancestral proto-mitochondrial genome than any other mtDNA investigated to date... - The mitochondrial DNA of Allomyces macrogynus: the complete genomic sequence from an ancestral fungusB Paquin
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Centre Ville, Canada
J Mol Biol 255:688-701. 1996.... - Evolution of monoblepharidalean fungi based on complete mitochondrial genome sequencesC E Bullerwell
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , , 2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, , , Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 31:1614-23. 2003..Intriguingly, a similar interaction may also be involved in mitochondrial translation initiation in the sea anemone Metridium senile... - Interspecific transfer of mitochondrial genes in fungi and creation of a homologous hybrid geneB Paquin
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, PQ, Canada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:11807-10. 1994..We present evidence that this insertion may have been acquired by interspecific transfer and we discuss the possible role of the endonuclease in this process... - Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the red alga Porphyra purpurea. Cyanobacterial introns and shared ancestry of red and green algaeG Burger
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada
Plant Cell 11:1675-94. 1999..Finally, phylogenetic analyses provide strong evidence that red algae share a common ancestry with green algae and plants... - Genes encoding the same three subunits of respiratory complex II are present in the mitochondrial DNA of two phylogenetically distant eukaryotesG Burger
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93:2328-32. 1996..The data presented here are consistent with the view that mitochondria constitute a monophyletic lineage... - Hyaloraphidium curvatum: a linear mitochondrial genome, tRNA editing, and an evolutionary link to lower fungiLise Forget
Program in Evolutionary Biology, , Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , 2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, , , Canada
Mol Biol Evol 19:310-9. 2002..Our phylogenetic analysis confirms with overwhelming support that H. curvatum is a member of the chytridiomycete fungi, specifically related to the Monoblepharidales... - Mitochondria of protistsMichael W Gray
Robert Cedergren Center, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Canada
Annu Rev Genet 38:477-524. 2004..This comparative genomics approach has also revealed unique and fascinating aspects of mitochondrial gene expression, highlighting the mitochondrion as an evolutionary playground par excellence... - Mitochondrial genomes of two demosponges provide insights into an early stage of animal evolutionDennis V Lavrov
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 22:1231-9. 2005.... - Comparative mitochondrial genomics in zygomycetes: bacteria-like RNase P RNAs, mobile elements and a close source of the group I intron invasion in angiospermsElias Seif
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , , Canada H3T 1J4
Nucleic Acids Res 33:734-44. 2005..Laforest,M.J., Forget,L., Roewer,I., Wang,Z., Longcore,J. and Lang,B.F. (1997) Curr. Genet., 31, 380-395]. The combined mtDNA-encoded proteins contain insufficient phylogenetic signal to demonstrate monophyly of zygomycetes... - Monophyly of primary photosynthetic eukaryotes: green plants, red algae, and glaucophytesNaiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Centre Robert Cedergren, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
Curr Biol 15:1325-30. 2005.... - Early eukaryote evolution based on mitochondrial gene order breakpointsD Sankoff
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Universite de Montreal, Quebec
J Comput Biol 7:521-35. 2000.... - TBestDB: a taxonomically broad database of expressed sequence tags (ESTs)Emmet A O'Brien
Departement de Biochimie, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Robert Cedergren Centre for Research in Bioinformatics and Genomics, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1J4
Nucleic Acids Res 35:D445-51. 2007..For instructions on submission to TBestDB, contact tbestdb@bch.umontreal.ca. The database can be queried at http://tbestdb.bcm.umontreal.ca/... 
Construction of cDNA libraries: focus on protists and fungiNaiara Rodriguez-Ezpeleta
Robert Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Methods Mol Biol 533:33-47. 2009....- The origins of multicellularity: a multi-taxon genome initiativeIñaki Ruiz Trillo
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Trends Genet 23:113-8. 2007..Here, we introduce this initiative and the biological questions that underpin it, summarize the rationale guiding the choice of organisms and discuss the anticipated benefits to the broader scientific community... - A novel motif for identifying rps3 homologs in fungal mitochondrial genomesC E Bullerwell
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , , 2900 Boul. Edouard Montpetit, , Qu, Canada H3T 1J4
Trends Biochem Sci 25:363-5. 2000 - Poriferan mtDNA and animal phylogeny based on mitochondrial gene arrangementsDennis V Lavrov
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, Que, H3C 3J7, Canada
Syst Biol 54:651-9. 2005..However, due to the remarkable stability of mitochondrial gene arrangements in Deuterostomia and the Ecdysozoa, conclusions on their evolutionary history cannot be drawn... - EST databases and web tools for EST projectsYao Qing Shen
Robert Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Methods Mol Biol 533:241-56. 2009..We discuss these in comparison to other available technologies and tools, and explain the reasons for our choices... - Group I-intron trans-splicing and mRNA editing in the mitochondria of placozoan animalsGertraud Burger
Robert Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, C P 6128, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
Trends Genet 25:381-6. 2009..These atypical features qualify placozoan mitochondrial gene and genome organization as derived rather than primitive. Whether the Placozoa diverged early or late during metazoan evolution remains unresolved by mitochondrial phylogeny... - Intra-isolate genome variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi persists in the transcriptomeE Boon
Departement de sciences biologiques, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC H1X 2B2, Canada
J Evol Biol 23:1519-27. 2010..This is the first study that investigates AMF intra-isolate variation at the transcriptome level. In conclusion, it is possible that, in AMF, multiple nuclear genomes contribute to a single phenotype... - The Rhodomonas salina mitochondrial genome: bacteria-like operons, compact gene arrangement and complex repeat regionAmy M Hauth
Departement de Biochimie, Robert Cedergren Research Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Université de Montréal 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1J4
Nucleic Acids Res 33:4433-42. 2005.... - Diversity and dispersal of a ubiquitous protein family: acyl-CoA dehydrogenasesYao Qing Shen
Robert Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Biochemistry Department, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, QC, H3T 1J4, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 37:5619-31. 2009..Through these unorthodox expansion strategies, the ACAD family is proficient in utilizing a large range of fatty acids and amino acids-strategies that could have shaped the evolutionary history of many other ancient protein families... - GOBASE--a database of mitochondrial and chloroplast informationEmmet A O'Brien
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 31:176-8. 2003..We have also implemented a more powerful and flexible user interface using the PHP programming language. http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/gobase/gobase.html... - GOBASE--a database of organelle and bacterial genome informationEmmet A O'Brien
Center Robert Cedergren for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1J4
Nucleic Acids Res 34:D697-9. 2006..The GOBASE database can be queried at http://gobase.bcm.umontreal.ca/ and inquiries should be directed to gobase@bch.umontreal.ca... - GOBASE: an organelle genome databaseEmmet A O'Brien
Robert Cedergren Center for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Pavillon Roger Gaudry, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit, Montreal QC, Canada H3T 1J4
Nucleic Acids Res 37:D946-50. 2009..The GOBASE database can be found at http://gobase.bcm.umontreal.ca/. Queries about custom and large-scale data retrievals should be addressed to gobase@bch.umontreal.ca... - Toward resolving the eukaryotic tree: the phylogenetic positions of jakobids and cercozoansNaiara Rodriguez Ezpeleta
Centre Robert Cedergren, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada
Curr Biol 17:1420-5. 2007..We discuss the implications of these results for the concept of "excavates" and for the elucidation of eukaryotic phylogeny in general... - Sequencing complete mitochondrial and plastid genomesGertraud Burger
Departement de Biochimie, Robert Cedergren Centre, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, CP 6128, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4 Canada
Nat Protoc 2:603-14. 2007..Library construction by either protocol can be completed within 1 week... - Phylogenomic evidence for separate acquisition of plastids in cryptophytes, haptophytes, and stramenopilesDenis Baurain
Departement de Biochimie, Centre Robert Cedergren, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 27:1698-709. 2010..Therefore, we reject the chromalveolate hypothesis as falsified in favor of more complex evolutionary scenarios involving multiple higher order eukaryote-eukaryote endosymbioses... - Unique mitochondrial genome architecture in unicellular relatives of animalsGertraud Burger
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:892-7. 2003.... - The protein kinase ERK3 is encoded by a single functional gene: genomic analysis of the ERK3 gene familyBenjamin Turgeon
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Department of Pharmacology, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H2W 1R7, Canada
Genomics 80:673-80. 2002..Our analysis demonstrates that the ERK3 subfamily of MAP kinase genes is composed of two functional genes, MAPK6 and MAPK4, and several pseudogenes... - Parallels in genome evolution in mitochondria and bacterial symbiontsGertraud Burger
Canarian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
IUBMB Life 55:205-12. 2003..New insights into early mitochondrial genome evolution come from the investigation of primitive mitochondriate eukaryotes, as well as the comparison between mitochondria and intracellular bacterial symbionts... - Mitochondrial genomes: anything goesGertraud Burger
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Programme in Evolutionary Biology, , , 2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, , , Canada H3T 1J4
Trends Genet 19:709-16. 2003 - Mitochondrial RNase P RNAs in ascomycete fungi: lineage-specific variations in RNA secondary structureElias R Seif
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , , , , Canada
RNA 9:1073-83. 2003..The evolutionary implications of the reduction of mtP-RNA structures in ascomycetes will be discussed... - Building a genome database using an object-oriented approachAnna Barbasiewicz
Universite de Montreal, Département de Biochimie 2900 Blvd Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec Canada, H3C 3J7
In Silico Biol 2:213-7. 2002..Subsequently, the UML diagrams were used as templates for writing object-oriented automation programs in the Java programming language... - Origin, evolution, and mechanism of 5' tRNA editing in chytridiomycete fungiMarie Josée Laforest
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900, Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, C P 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada
RNA 10:1191-9. 2004..brooksianum raises the possibility that 5' tRNA editing may have evolved twice independently within Chytridiomycota, once in the lineage leading to S. punctatus and once in the lineage leading to the Monoblepharidales... - Intron-encoded open reading frame of the GIY-YIG subclass in a plastid geneB Paquin
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
Curr Genet 28:97-9. 1995..These results suggest that GIY-YIG ORFs have a longer evolutionary history than previously assumed... - FLOSYS--a web-accessible workflow system for protocol-driven biomolecular sequence analysisE Badidi
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology Département de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900, boul Edouard Montpetit, local G 312, Montreal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 50:785-93. 2004..bcm.umontreal.ca: 8091/anabench. The entire package is available on request to academic groups who wish to have a customized local analysis environment for research or teaching... - Molecular phylogeny of Allomyces macrogynus: congruency between nuclear ribosomal RNA- and mitochondrial protein-based treesB Paquin
Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Canada
J Mol Evol 41:657-65. 1995..In addition, our trees support a monophyletic origin of mitochondria for the range of analyzed eukaryotes... - Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Taphrinomycotina, including Schizosaccharomyces fission yeastsYu Liu
Robert Cedergren Centre, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 26:27-34. 2009.... - Detecting and overcoming systematic errors in genome-scale phylogeniesNaiara Rodriguez Ezpeleta
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Centre Robert Cedergren, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
Syst Biol 56:389-99. 2007..Finally, our results allow us to formulate guidelines for detecting and overcoming phylogenetic artefacts in genome-scale phylogenetic analyses... - Distribution and phylogeny of EFL and EF-1alpha in Euglenozoa suggest ancestral co-occurrence followed by differential lossGillian H Gile
Department of Botany, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PLoS ONE 4:e5162. 2009..However, differential loss may play a role in EFL evolution, and this possibility has been less widely discussed... - Accounting for gene rate heterogeneity in phylogenetic inferenceRachel B Bevan
McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
Syst Biol 56:194-205. 2007..Furthermore, improved model fit over the concatenated model is highly correlated with the presence of a gene with a slow relative rate of evolution... - Calculating the evolutionary rates of different genes: a fast, accurate estimator with applications to maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysisRachel B Bevan
McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2B4, Canada
Syst Biol 54:900-15. 2005..e., without protein rates) were corrected. [Bayesian credible intervals; DistR method; multigene phylogeny; PHYML; rate heterogeneity.]... - Whirly proteins maintain plastid genome stability in ArabidopsisAlexandre Maréchal
Department of Biochemistry, Universite de Montreal, Station Centre Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:14693-8. 2009..We propose a model where Whirlies contribute to plastid genome stability by protecting against illegitimate repeat-mediated recombination... - Hybrid E. coli--Mitochondrial ribonuclease P RNAs are catalytically activeElias Seif
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Robert Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1J4, Canada
RNA 12:1661-70. 2006..Finally, we will discuss reasons for the failure of mtP-RNAs to show catalytic activity in the absence of P-proteins based on our mutagenesis analysis... - Transfer RNA gene recruitment in mitochondrial DNADennis V Lavrov
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Centre Robert Cedergren, Departement de Biochimie, Universite de Montreal, 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1J4
Trends Genet 21:129-33. 2005.... - Mitochondrial 3' tRNA editing in the jakobid Seculamonas ecuadoriensis: a novel mechanism and implications for tRNA processingJessica Leigh
, , , H3T 1J4, Canada
RNA 10:615-21. 2004..This 3' tRNA editing mechanism is likely distinct from that of L. forficatus, despite the apparent similarities between the two systems... - The enigmatic mitochondrial ORF ymf39 codes for ATP synthase chain bGertraud Burger
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, , , 2900 Boulevard Edouard Montpetit, , , Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 31:2353-60. 2003..This analysis provides clear evidence that ymf39 is an atpF homolog, while ATP4/ATP5F appears to be a highly diverged form of ymf39 that has migrated to the nucleus. We propose to designate ymf39 from now on atp4... - Loss of the mRNA-like region in mitochondrial tmRNAs of jakobidsYannick Jacob
, , , , Canada H3T 1J4
RNA 10:605-14. 2004..Our results strongly support the functionality of these reduced mitochondrial tmRNAs... - MetR and CRP bind to the Vibrio harveyi lux promoters and regulate luminescenceJaidip Chatterjee
Department of Biochemistry, Room 813, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada
Mol Microbiol 46:101-11. 2002.... - Structure of the bc1 complex from Seculamonas ecuadoriensis, a jakobid flagellate with an ancestral mitochondrial genomeStefanie Marx
, , Hannover, Germany
Mol Biol Evol 20:145-53. 2003..We posit that the recruitment of additional subunits in mitochondrial respiratory complexes is a consequence of the migration of originally alpha-proteobacterial genes to the nucleus... - Transcription and RNA-processing in fission yeast mitochondriaBernd Schafer
Department of Biology IV Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringer Weg, 52056 Aachen, Germany
RNA 11:785-95. 2005..Similar 3'-RNA-processing motifs are present in species of the genus Schizosaccharomyces, but not in budding yeasts that have functionally analogous A+T-rich dodecamer processing signals... - Glass sponges and bilaterian animals share derived mitochondrial genomic features: a common ancestry or parallel evolution?Karri M Haen
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Mol Biol Evol 24:1518-27. 2007..Thus, it remains an open question whether shared mitochondrial genomic features in glass sponges and bilaterian animals reflect their close phylogenetic affinity or provide a remarkable example of parallel evolution... - Phylogenetic relationships of non-mitochondrial nucleotide transport proteins in bacteria and eukaryotesNicole Linka
, Pflanzenphysiologie, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Gene 306:27-35. 2003..The tree topology indicates that some bacterial NTT paralogs have arisen by gene duplications and others by horizontal transfer... - A phylogenomic investigation into the origin of metazoaInaki Ruiz-Trillo
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 25:664-72. 2008..Understanding the function of "metazoan-specific" proteins we have identified in these protists will clarify the evolutionary steps that led to the emergence of the Metazoa... - Fungal evolution: the case of the vanishing mitochondrionCharles E Bullerwell
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1X5, Canada
Curr Opin Microbiol 8:362-9. 2005..These organisms have organelles derived from mitochondria that retain traces of their mitochondrial ancestry... - Translocation of an 89-kDa periplasmic protein is associated with Holospora infectionKoichi Iwatani
Biological Institute, Faculty of Science, Yamaguchi University, Yoshida 1677 1, Yamaguchi 753 8512, Japan
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 337:1198-205. 2005..Our findings suggest that the 89-kDa protein plays a role in Holospora's escape from the host digestive vacuole, the migration through the host cytoplasm, and the invasion into the macronucleus...