Virus metagenomics is a young research filed but it has already transformed our
understanding of virus diversity and evolution, and illuminated at a new level the …

A comprehensive understanding of the origin and spread of plastids remains an important
yet elusive goal in the field of eukaryotic evolution. Combined with the discovery of new …

Genome sequences of diverse free-living protists are essential for understanding eukaryotic
evolution and molecular and cell biology. The free-living amoeboflagellate Naegleria …

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Diatoms and other chromalveolates are among the dominant phytoplankters in the world's
oceans. Endosymbiosis was essential to the success of chromalveolates, and it appears that …

Overwhelming evidence supports the endosymbiosis theory that mitochondria originated
once from the Alphaproteobacteria. However, its exact position in the tree of life remains …

The intent of this article is to provide a critical assessment of our current understanding of
life's phylogenetic diversity. Phylogenetic comparison of gene sequences is a natural way to …

Given the considerable promise whole-genome sequencing offers for phylogeny and
classification, it is surprising that microbial systematics and genomics have not yet been …

Our understanding of eukaryote biology is dominated by the study of land plants, animals
and fungi. However, these are only three isolated fragments of the full diversity of extant …

The Apicomplexa is the only large taxonomic group whose members are entirely parasitic
and is, therefore, presumably of major interest to parasitologists. We might, for example …