M L Sogin

Summary

Affiliation: Marine Biological Laboratory
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Effect of PCR amplicon size on assessments of clone library microbial diversity and community structure
    Julie A Huber
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 11:1292-302. 2009
  2. ncbi Accuracy and quality of massively parallel DNA pyrosequencing
    Susan M Huse
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R143. 2007
  3. ncbi Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere"
    Mitchell L Sogin
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12115-20. 2006
  4. ncbi History assignment: when was the mitochondrion founded?
    M L Sogin
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Curr Opin Genet Dev 7:792-9. 1997
  5. ncbi Evolution of the protists and protistan parasites from the perspective of molecular systematics
    M L Sogin
    Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Int J Parasitol 28:11-20. 1998
  6. ncbi Ancestral relationships of the major eukaryotic lineages
    M L Sogin
    Center for Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Microbiologia 12:17-28. 1996
  7. ncbi Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA
    M Medina
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02453, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9707-12. 2001
  8. ncbi Microbiology: eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire
    Linda A Amaral Zettler
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Nature 417:137. 2002
  9. ncbi Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities
    Andreas Teske
    Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1994-2007. 2002
  10. ncbi Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust
    Cara M Santelli
    MIT WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Nature 453:653-6. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: a protistan emphasis
    Mitchell Sogin; Fiscal Year: 2007

Collaborators

Detail Information

Publications55

  1. ncbi Effect of PCR amplicon size on assessments of clone library microbial diversity and community structure
    Julie A Huber
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 11:1292-302. 2009
    ....
  2. ncbi Accuracy and quality of massively parallel DNA pyrosequencing
    Susan M Huse
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Genome Biol 8:R143. 2007
    ....
  3. ncbi Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere"
    Mitchell L Sogin
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:12115-20. 2006
    ..Members of the rare biosphere are highly divergent from each other and, at different times in earth's history, may have had a profound impact on shaping planetary processes...
  4. ncbi History assignment: when was the mitochondrion founded?
    M L Sogin
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Curr Opin Genet Dev 7:792-9. 1997
    ....
  5. ncbi Evolution of the protists and protistan parasites from the perspective of molecular systematics
    M L Sogin
    Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Int J Parasitol 28:11-20. 1998
    ..We must place greater emphasis upon improved phylogenetic inference techniques and investigations of genomic diversity in protists...
  6. ncbi Ancestral relationships of the major eukaryotic lineages
    M L Sogin
    Center for Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Microbiologia 12:17-28. 1996
    ..The molecular phylogenies suggest that multiple endosymbiotic events introduced plastids into discrete eukaryotic lineages...
  7. ncbi Evaluating hypotheses of basal animal phylogeny using complete sequences of large and small subunit rRNA
    M Medina
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02453, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:9707-12. 2001
    ..LSU sequence data reveal phylogenetic structure in a data set with limited taxon sampling. Continued accumulation of LSU sequences should increase our understanding of animal phylogeny...
  8. ncbi Microbiology: eukaryotic diversity in Spain's River of Fire
    Linda A Amaral Zettler
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Nature 417:137. 2002
    ..The diversity of these eukaryotes is much greater than that of prokaryotes, whose metabolism is responsible for the extreme environment...
  9. ncbi Microbial diversity of hydrothermal sediments in the Guaymas Basin: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities
    Andreas Teske
    Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:1994-2007. 2002
    ..This study stresses a high diversity among communities capable of anaerobic oxidation of methane...
  10. ncbi Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust
    Cara M Santelli
    MIT WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Nature 453:653-6. 2008
    ....
  11. ncbi Phylogenetic characterization of epibiotic bacteria in the accessory nidamental gland and egg capsules of the squid Loligo pealei (Cephalopoda:Loliginidae)
    E Barbieri
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 3:151-67. 2001
    ..pealei. The molecular approach allowed the visualization of alpha-proteobacteria as major constituents of a bacterial symbiosis within the reproductive system of the Loliginidae...
  12. ncbi Phylogeny of the genera Entamoeba and Endolimax as deduced from small-subunit ribosomal RNA sequences
    J D Silberman
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 16:1740-51. 1999
    ..Finally, we show that the positions of some (fast-evolving) eukaryotic lineages are uncertain in trees constructed with models that make corrections for among-site rate variation...
  13. ncbi Giardia lamblia expresses a proteobacterial-like DnaK homolog
    H G Morrison
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center of Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543-1015, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 18:530-41. 2001
    ..These data neither confirm nor reject the possibility that this gene is a relic of secondary mitochondrial loss; they leave open the possibility that it was acquired in a separate endosymbiotic event...
  14. ncbi Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering
    Susan M Huse
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 12:1889-98. 2010
    ..This new clustering method can reduce the OTU richness in environmental samples by as much as 30-60% but does not reduce the fraction of OTUs in long-tailed rank abundance curves that defines the rare biosphere...
  15. ncbi Methanogen diversity evidenced by molecular characterization of methyl coenzyme M reductase A (mcrA) genes in hydrothermal sediments of the Guaymas Basin
    Ashita Dhillon
    Marine Biological Laboratory, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 71:4592-601. 2005
    ..Phylogenetic affiliations of mcrA and 16S rRNA clones with thermophilic and nonthermophilic cultured isolates indicate a mixed mesophilic and thermophilic methanogen community in the surficial Guaymas sediments...
  16. ncbi The evolution of the Vahlkampfiidae as deduced from 16S-like ribosomal RNA analysis
    G Hinkle
    Center for Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
    J Eukaryot Microbiol 40:599-603. 1993
    ..The Vahlkampfiidae lineage is monophyletic, branches early along the eukaryotic line of descent, and is not a close relative of the multicellular amoebae that also reversibly transform from amoebae to flagellates...
  17. ncbi Evolutionary relationships among "jakobid" flagellates as indicated by alpha- and beta-tubulin phylogenies
    V P Edgcomb
    Josephine Bay-Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 18:514-22. 2001
    ..Relationships with the putatively deep-branching amitochondriate diplomonads remain uncertain...
  18. ncbi The sequence of the Hartmannella vermiformis small subunit rRNA coding region
    J H Gunderson
    Center for Molecular Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
    J Eukaryot Microbiol 41:481-2. 1994
    ..The coding region is 1,840 nucleotides long, and is typical of eukaryotic rRNA genes in both size and composition. Different clones contained different nucleotides at three positions...
  19. ncbi The nucleariid amoebae: more protists at the animal-fungal boundary
    T A Nerad
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    J Eukaryot Microbiol 48:293-7. 2001
    ..These nucleariids are unrelated to the lineage containing the testate filose amoebae (Testaceafilosia). Our findings expand the morphological and phylogenetic diversity of protists at the animal-fungal divergence...
  20. ncbi Inferring protein function from genomic sequence: Giardia lamblia expresses a phosphatidylinositol kinase-related kinase similar to yeast and mammalian TOR
    Hilary G Morrison
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543 1015, USA
    Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 133:477-91. 2002
    ..Our investigation of the Giardia genome suggests that PIK-related kinases are of ancient origin and are highly conserved...
  21. ncbi Microbial population structures in the deep marine biosphere
    Julie A Huber
    Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Science 318:97-100. 2007
    ....
  22. ncbi Genomic minimalism in the early diverging intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia
    Hilary G Morrison
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543 1015, USA
    Science 317:1921-6. 2007
    ..This genome sequence will not only be valuable for investigating the evolution of eukaryotes, but will also be applied to the search for new therapeutics for this parasite...
  23. ncbi Life at acidic pH imposes an increased energetic cost for a eukaryotic acidophile
    Mark A Messerli
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    J Exp Biol 208:2569-79. 2005
    ..Our results indicate that the small increase in the rate of ATP consumption can account for maintenance of the transmembrane H+ gradient without the imposition of cell surface H+ barriers...
  24. ncbi Molecular characterization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in a New England salt marsh
    Michele Bahr
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:1175-85. 2005
    ..The sequence data from this study will allow for the design of probes or primers that can quantitatively assess the diverse range of sulfate reducers present in the environment...
  25. ncbi Benthic eukaryotic diversity in the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent environment
    Virginia P Edgcomb
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:7658-62. 2002
    ..g., phototrophs) are simply deposited by sedimentary processes. In contrast, bacterial populations in these sediments are primarily characteristic of anoxic, reduced, hydrocarbon-rich sedimentary habitats...
  26. ncbi Isolated communities of Epsilonproteobacteria in hydrothermal vent fluids of the Mariana Arc seamounts
    Julie A Huber
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    FEMS Microbiol Ecol 73:538-49. 2010
    ..This suggests that there may be barriers to exchange and dispersal for these vent endemic microorganisms at hydrothermal seamounts of the Mariana Arc...
  27. ncbi Phylogenetic relationships between the Acantharea and the Polycystinea: a molecular perspective on Haeckel's Radiolaria
    L A Zettler
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center in Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:11411-6. 1997
    ..We conclude that the Actinopoda does not represent a monophyletic evolutionary assemblage and recommend that this taxonomic designation be discarded...
  28. ncbi The evolutionary origins of eukaryotic protein disulfide isomerase domains: new evidence from the Amitochondriate protist Giardia lamblia
    A G McArthur
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543-1015, USA
    Mol Biol Evol 18:1455-63. 2001
    ..The PDI complement of G. lamblia and yeast suggests that a combination of PDIs may be used as a redox chain analogous to that known for bacterial Dsb proteins...
  29. ncbi From genes to genomes: beyond biodiversity in Spain's Rio Tinto
    Linda A Amaral Zettler
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
    Biol Bull 204:205-9. 2003
    ..We predict that special properties of these ion transporters allow protists to survive in the Rio Tinto...
  30. ncbi The identification of a new Giardia duodenalis assemblage in marine vertebrates and a preliminary analysis of G. duodenalis population biology in marine systems
    Erica Lasek-Nesselquist
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Evolution and Molecular Biology, MBL, 7 MBL St, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Int J Parasitol 40:1063-74. 2010
    ..duodenalis as these assemblages are from each other. The discovery of a previously uncharacterised lineage of G. duodenalis suggests that this parasite has more genetic diversity and perhaps a larger host range than previously believed...
  31. ncbi Molecular characterization of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the Guaymas Basin
    Ashita Dhillon
    Marine Biological Laboratory, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, NASA Astrobiology Institute, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 69:2765-72. 2003
    ..In addition, the dsrAB sequencing approach revealed a novel group of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes that could not be identified by 16S rRNA sequencing...
  32. ncbi Genomic markers of ancient anaerobic microbial pathways: sulfate reduction, methanogenesis, and methane oxidation
    Andreas Teske
    Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Biol Bull 204:186-91. 2003
    ....
  33. ncbi Exploring microbial diversity and taxonomy using SSU rRNA hypervariable tag sequencing
    Susan M Huse
    Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America
    PLoS Genet 4:e1000255. 2008
    ..This technique allows the cost-effective exploration of changes in microbial community structure, including the rare biosphere, over space and time and can be applied immediately to initiatives, such as the Human Microbiome Project...
  34. ncbi Serial analysis of V6 ribosomal sequence tags (SARST-V6): a method for efficient, high-throughput analysis of microbial community composition
    David T Kysela
    The Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
    Environ Microbiol 7:356-64. 2005
    ..These results demonstrate the utility of SARST-V6 in collecting taxonomically informative data for high-throughput analysis of microbial communities...
  35. ncbi Bacterial group II introns in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent environment
    Mircea Podar
    Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts 02543, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 68:6392-8. 2002
    ..These types of mobile genetic elements may prove useful in improving our understanding of bacterial genome evolution and may serve as valuable markers in comparative studies of bacterial communities...
  36. ncbi Acinetobacter, Aeromonas and Trichococcus populations dominate the microbial community within urban sewer infrastructure
    J L Vandewalle
    Great Lakes WATER Institute, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 600 E Greenfield Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA
    Environ Microbiol 14:2538-52. 2012
    ..This work provides insight into microbial community composition and dynamics within the defined environment of urban sewer infrastructure...
  37. ncbi Cloning and analysis of the CYP1A promoter from the atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)
    Wade H Powell
    Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
    Mar Environ Res 58:119-24. 2004
    ..These studies may ultimately shed light on the importance of P4501A activity in xenobiotic toxicity...
  38. ncbi Phylogenetic analysis of Blastocystis isolates from different hosts based on the comparison of small-subunit rRNA gene sequences
    Christophe Noël
    Institut Pasteur, Unité Mixte INSERM IPL U547, 1 Rue du Professeur Calmette BP 245, 59019 Lille Cedex, France
    Mol Biochem Parasitol 126:119-23. 2003
  39. ncbi Evidence for lateral transfer of genes encoding ferredoxins, nitroreductases, NADH oxidase, and alcohol dehydrogenase 3 from anaerobic prokaryotes to Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica
    Julie E J Nixon
    Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Eukaryot Cell 1:181-90. 2002
    ..In further support of lateral transfer, the G. lamblia NADH oxidase and adh3 genes appeared to have an evolutionary history distinct from those of E. histolytica...
  40. ncbi Molecular characterization of Giardia intestinalis haplotypes in marine animals: variation and zoonotic potential
    Erica Lasek-Nesselquist
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, 80 Waterman Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
    Dis Aquat Organ 81:39-51. 2008
    ..The presence of G. intestinalis in marine ecosystems raises concerns about how this disease might be transmitted among different host species...
  41. ncbi Molecular phylogeny of parabasalids inferred from small subunit rRNA sequences, with emphasis on the Devescovinidae and Calonymphidae (Trichomonadea)
    Delphine Gerbod
    Laboratory of Microbiology, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
    Mol Phylogenet Evol 25:545-56. 2002
    ....
  42. ncbi Evolutionary history of "early-diverging" eukaryotes: the excavate taxon Carpediemonas is a close relative of Giardia
    Alastair G B Simpson
    Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    Mol Biol Evol 19:1782-91. 2002
    ..The phylogenetic position of Carpediemonas suggests that it will be valuable in interpreting the evolutionary significance of many molecular and cellular peculiarities of diplomonads...
  43. ncbi Giardia lamblia: identification and characterization of Rab and GDI proteins in a genome survey of the ER to Golgi endomembrane system
    T Dianne Langford
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103-8416, USA
    Exp Parasitol 101:13-24. 2002
    ..GDI associated with these structures, and with small vesicles found throughout the cytoplasm, consistent with GDI's key role in Rab cycling between organelles within the cell...
  44. ncbi A spliceosomal intron in Giardia lamblia
    Julie E J Nixon
    Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-6018, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:3701-5. 2002
    ..If introns were added during eukaryotic evolution (the introns-late hypothesis), then these results push back the date of this event before the branching of G. lamblia...
  45. ncbi Iron-dependent hydrogenases of Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia lamblia: activity of the recombinant entamoebic enzyme and evidence for lateral gene transfer
    Julie E J Nixon
    Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Biol Bull 204:1-9. 2003
    ..These results are discussed in the context of competing ideas for the origins of genes encoding fermentation enzymes of these protists...
  46. ncbi Evolution of eukaryotic transcription: insights from the genome of Giardia lamblia
    Aaron A Best
    Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B103 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
    Genome Res 14:1537-47. 2004
    ..Consequently, Giardia is predicted to be unique in many aspects of transcription initiation with respect to paradigms derived from studies in crown eukaryotes...
  47. ncbi Molecular phylogenies of Blastocystis isolates from different hosts: implications for genetic diversity, identification of species, and zoonosis
    Christophe Noël
    Unité Inserm U547, Institut Pasteur, 1 rue du Professeur Calmette, BP 245, 59019 Lille Cedex, France
    J Clin Microbiol 43:348-55. 2005
    ..Our results also strongly suggest the existence of numerous zoonotic isolates with frequent animal-to-human and human-to-animal transmissions and of a large potential reservoir in animals for infections in humans...
  48. ncbi Annexin-like alpha giardins: a new cytoskeletal gene family in Giardia lamblia
    Malin E-L Weiland
    Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Int J Parasitol 35:617-26. 2005
    ..These localisation experiments suggest alpha-giardins play a role in cell motility, attachment and membrane stability...
  49. ncbi Microbial biogeography along an estuarine salinity gradient: combined influences of bacterial growth and residence time
    Byron C Crump
    Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland 21613, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 70:1494-505. 2004
    ....
  50. ncbi Monopylocystis visvesvarai n. gen., n. sp. and Sawyeria marylandensis n. gen., n. sp.: two new amitochondrial heterolobosean amoebae from anoxic environments
    Charles J O'Kelly
    Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04575, USA
    Protist 154:281-90. 2003
    ..In phylogenetic analyses of small-subunit rRNA gene sequences, Monopylocystis visvesvarai, Sawyeria marylandensis and Psalteriomonas lanterna converge to form a single clade of non-aerobic (anaerobic/microaerophilic) heteroloboseans...
  51. ncbi Two new small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene lineages within the subclass gymnamoebia
    Michael T Peglar
    American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, Virginia 20110, USA
    J Eukaryot Microbiol 50:224-32. 2003
    ..Unique cell surface features validate these as genera distinct from Vannella and Platyamoeba. Genetic and ultrastructural data are used to discuss the phylogenetic interrelationships for the taxa studied...
  52. ncbi Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru
    Jennifer F Biddle
    Pennsylvania State Astrobiology Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:3846-51. 2006
    ..Our study provides clues about the metabolic functionality of two cosmopolitan groups of uncultured Archaea...
  53. ncbi Giardia lamblia RNA polymerase II: amanitin-resistant transcription
    Vishwas Seshadri
    Department of Microbiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona 85724-5049, USA
    J Biol Chem 278:27804-10. 2003
    ..lamblia...
  54. ncbi Unexpected diversity and complexity of the Guerrero Negro hypersaline microbial mat
    Ruth E Ley
    Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA
    Appl Environ Microbiol 72:3685-95. 2006
    ..The sequences determined in this study have been submitted to the GenBank database and assigned accession numbers DQ 329539 to DQ 331020, and DQ 397339 to DQ 397511...
  55. ncbi Pelobionts are degenerate protists: insights from molecules and morphology
    Virginia P Edgcomb
    Mol Biol Evol 19:978-82. 2002

Research Grants7

  1. Molecular Evolution of Eukaryotes: a protistan emphasis
    Mitchell Sogin; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ....