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Chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oedogonium cardiacum (Chlorophyceae): unique genome architecture, derived characters shared with the Chaetophorales and novel genes acquired through horizontal transferJean Simon Brouard
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
BMC Genomics 9:290. 2008..We describe here the complete cpDNA sequence of Oedogonium cardiacum (Oedogoniales)...- The chloroplast genome sequence of the green alga Leptosira terrestris: multiple losses of the inverted repeat and extensive genome rearrangements within the TrebouxiophyceaeJean Charles de Cambiaire
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
BMC Genomics 8:213. 2007..To gain insights into the evolutionary trends of the chloroplast genome in the Trebouxiophyceae, we sequenced cpDNA from the filamentous alga Leptosira terrestris (Ctenocladales)... - The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the chlorophycean green alga Scenedesmus obliquus reveals a compact gene organization and a biased distribution of genes on the two DNA strandsJean Charles de Cambiaire
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
BMC Evol Biol 6:37. 2006..To gain insights into the various changes that underwent the chloroplast genome during the evolution of chlorophycean green algae, we have sequenced the cpDNA of Scenedesmus obliquus, a member of a distinct chlorophycean lineage... - The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early diverging ulvophytesJean Francois Pombert
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
BMC Biol 4:3. 2006.... - A clade uniting the green algae Mesostigma viride and Chlorokybus atmophyticus represents the deepest branch of the Streptophyta in chloroplast genome-based phylogeniesClaude Lemieux
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada
BMC Biol 5:2. 2007..Here, we describe the complete chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) sequence of the early-diverging charophycean alga Chlorokybus atmophyticus and present chloroplast genome-based phylogenies with an expanded taxon sampling... 
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 euglenidsMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Québec Québec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 26:631-48. 2009....- An unexpectedly large and loosely packed mitochondrial genome in the charophycean green alga Chlorokybus atmophyticusMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
BMC Genomics 8:137. 2007.... 
The chloroplast genome sequence of Chara vulgaris sheds new light into the closest green algal relatives of land plantsMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 23:1324-38. 2006..Analyses of genome rearrangements based on inversions predicted no alteration in gene order during the transition from charophycean green algae to land plants...- The complete chloroplast DNA sequences of the charophycean green algae Staurastrum and Zygnema reveal that the chloroplast genome underwent extensive changes during the evolution of the ZygnematalesMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec, G1K 7P4, Canada
BMC Biol 3:22. 2005.... - The chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences of the charophyte Chaetosphaeridium globosum: insights into the timing of the events that restructured organelle DNAs within the green algal lineage that led to land plantsMonique Turmel
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, and Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada G1K 7P4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:11275-80. 2002..Our results also suggest that the events accounting for the spacious intergenic spacers found in land-plant mtDNAs took place late during the evolution of charophytes or coincided with the transition from charophytes to land plants... - The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Mesostigma viride identifies this green alga as the earliest green plant divergence and predicts a highly compact mitochondrial genome in the ancestor of all green plantsMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Pavillon C E Marchand, Universite Laval, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 19:24-38. 2002.... - The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Nephroselmis olivacea: insights into the architecture of ancestral chloroplast genomesM Turmel
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology and Département de Biochimie, Universite Laval, Quebec, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:10248-53. 1999..Our phylogenetic data also offer insight into the chlorophyte ancestor of euglenophyte chloroplasts... - 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... - 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... - Evolutionarily conserved and functionally important residues in the I-CeuI homing endonucleaseM Turmel
Program in Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Departement de Biochimie, Faculte des sciences et de genie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Nucleic Acids Res 25:2610-9. 1997..Our results not only confirm recent reports indicating that amino acids in the LAGLI-DADG dodecapeptide are functionally critical, but they also suggest that some residues outside this motif directly participate in catalysis... - Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolutionC Lemieux
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Nature 403:649-52. 2000..The structure and gene organization of this genome indicate that chloroplast DNA architecture has been extremely well conserved in the line leading to land plants... - Common intervals and symmetric difference in a model-free phylogenomics, with an application to streptophyte evolutionZaky Adam
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
J Comput Biol 14:436-45. 2007.... - Distinctive architecture of the chloroplast genome in the chlorophycean green alga Stigeoclonium helveticumAnne Sophie Bélanger
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Pavillon Charles Eugène Marchand, Universite Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada G1K 7P4
Mol Genet Genomics 276:464-77. 2006..By placing our comparative genome analyses in a phylogenetic framework, we inferred an evolutionary scenario of the mutational events that led to changes in genome architecture in the Chlorophyceae... - The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis: evolutionary trends of the mitochondrial genome in the UlvophyceaeJean Francois Pombert
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Pavillon Charles Eugène Marchand, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada
Curr Genet 50:137-47. 2006..Our results also provide strong evidence for the intracellular, interorganellar transfer of a group I intron and for two distinct events of intercellular, horizontal DNA transfer... - The mitochondrial genome of Chara vulgaris: insights into the mitochondrial DNA architecture of the last common ancestor of green algae and land plantsMonique Turmel
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Plant Cell 15:1888-903. 2003..The group II introns in this ancestral genome appear to have spread to new mtDNA sites during the evolution of bryophytes and charalean green algae, accounting for part of the intron diversity found in Chara and land plant mitochondria... - Flexible DNA target site recognition by divergent homing endonuclease isoschizomers I-CreI and I-MsoIBrett Chevalier
Division of Basic Sciences, Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle 98109, USA
J Mol Biol 329:253-69. 2003.... - The chloroplast genome sequence of the green alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) reveals unusual structural features and new insights into the branching order of chlorophyte lineagesJean Francois Pombert
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec G1K 7P4, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 22:1903-18. 2005.... - The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the green alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) highlights distinctive evolutionary trends in the chlorophyta and suggests a sister-group relationship between the Ulvophyceae and ChlorophyceaeJean Francois Pombert
Departement de Biochimie et de Microbiologie, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Mol Biol Evol 21:922-35. 2004.... - Metal-dependent DNA cleavage mechanism of the I-CreI LAGLIDADG homing endonucleaseBrett Chevalier
Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North A3-025, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Biochemistry 43:14015-26. 2004..Failure to occupy the shared metal site, as observed in the presence of calcium or when the metal-binding side chain from the LAGLIDADG motif (Asp 20) is mutated to asparagine, prevents cleavage by the enzyme... - The structure of I-CeuI homing endonuclease: Evolving asymmetric DNA recognition from a symmetric protein scaffoldP Clint Spiegel
Graduate Programs in Biomolecular Structure and Design and Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Structure 14:869-80. 2006..The divergence of the sequence, structure, and target recognition behavior of homing endonucleases, as illustrated by this study, leads to the invasion of novel genomic sites by mobile introns during evolution...