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Open AccessGenomic analysis of an ultrasmall freshwater green alga, Medakamo hakoo
Ultrasmall algae have attracted the attention of biologists investigating the basic mechanisms underlying living systems. Their potential as effective organisms for producing useful substances is also of inter...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology
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Open AccessGenetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology
Diverse microbial ecosystems underpin life in the sea. Among these microbes are many unicellular eukaryotes that span the diversity of the eukaryotic tree of life. However, genetic tractability has been limite...
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Open AccessTreetrimmer: a method for phylogenetic dataset size reduction
With rapid advances in genome sequencing and bioinformatics, it is now possible to generate phylogenetic trees containing thousands of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from a wide range of organisms. However...
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Open AccessAn extended phylogenetic analysis reveals ancient origin of "non-green" phosphoribulokinase genes from two lineages of "green" secondary photosynthetic eukaryotes: Euglenophyta and Chlorarachniophyta
Euglenophyta and Chlorarachniophyta are groups of photosynthetic eukaryotes harboring secondary plastids of distinct green algal origins. Although previous phylogenetic analyses of genes encoding Calvin cycle ...
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Open AccessEukaryote-to-eukaryote gene transfer gives rise to genome mosaicism in euglenids
Euglenophytes are a group of photosynthetic flagellates possessing a plastid derived from a green algal endosymbiont, which was incorporated into an ancestral host cell via secondary endosymbiosis. However, th...
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Open AccessCyanobacterial contribution to the genomes of the plastid-lacking protists
Eukaryotic genes with cyanobacterial ancestry in plastid-lacking protists have been regarded as important evolutionary markers implicating the presence of plastids in the early evolution of eukaryotes. Althoug...
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Open AccessOrigins of a cyanobacterial 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in plastid-lacking eukaryotes
Plastids have inherited their own genomes from a single cyanobacterial ancestor, but the majority of cyanobacterial genes, once retained in the ancestral plastid genome, have been lost or transferred into the ...
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Open AccessA 100%-complete sequence reveals unusually simple genomic features in the hot-spring red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae
All previously reported eukaryotic nuclear genome sequences have been incomplete, especially in highly repeated units and chromosomal ends. Because repetitive DNA is important for many aspects of biology, comp...
