A k-mer-Based Approach for Phylogenetic Classification of Taxa in Environmental Genomic Data

J Van Etten, TG Stephens, D Bhattacharya - Systematic biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In the age of genome sequencing, whole-genome data is readily and frequently generated,
leading to a wealth of new information that can be used to advance various fields of …

Aspergillus is monophyletic: evidence from multiple gene phylogenies and extrolites profiles

S Kocsubé, G Perrone, D Magistà… - Studies in …, 2016 - ingentaconnect.com
Aspergillus is one of the economically most important fungal genera. Recently, the ICN
adopted the single name nomenclature which has forced mycologists to choose one name …

Amoeba genome reveals dominant host contribution to plastid endosymbiosis

D Lhee, JM Lee, K Ettahi, CH Cho, JS Ha… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic photosynthetic organelles, plastids, are the powerhouses of many aquatic and
terrestrial ecosystems. The canonical plastid in algae and plants originated> 1 Ga and …

[HTML][HTML] Improved Cladocopium goreaui Genome Assembly Reveals Features of a Facultative Coral Symbiont and the Complex Evolutionary History of Dinoflagellate …

Y Chen, S Shah, KE Dougan, MJH van Oppen… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae are crucial photosymbionts in corals and
other marine organisms. Of these, Cladocopium goreaui is one of the most dominant …

Evolution of novel mimicry rings facilitated by adaptive introgression in tropical butterflies

J Enciso‐Romero, C Pardo‐Díaz, SH Martin… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic variation and the mechanisms involved in the
evolution of adaptive novelty, especially in adaptive radiations, is a major goal in …

Discovery and genomic analyses of hybridization between divergent lineages of Trypanosoma congolense, causative agent of Animal African Trypanosomiasis

E Tihon, H Imamura, JC Dujardin… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hybrid populations and introgressive hybridization remain poorly documented in pathogenic
micro‐organisms, as such that genetic exchange has been argued to play a minor role in …

Genome Analyses of the Microalga Picochlorum Provide Insights into the Evolution of Thermotolerance in the Green Lineage

M Krasovec, E Vancaester, S Rombauts… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
While the molecular events involved in cell responses to heat stress have been extensively
studied, our understanding of the genetic basis of basal thermotolerance, and particularly its …

Genomics of preaxostyla flagellates illuminates the path towards the loss of mitochondria

LVF Novák, SC Treitli, J Pyrih, P Hałakuc… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The notion that mitochondria cannot be lost was shattered with the report of an oxymonad
Monocercomonoides exilis, the first eukaryote arguably without any mitochondrion. Yet …

Insights into agar and secondary metabolite pathways from the genome of the red alga Gracilaria domingensis (Rhodophyta, Gracilariales)

N Nakamura‐Gouvea, C Alves‐Lima… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Gracilariales is a clade of florideophycean red macroalgae known for being the main source
of agar. We present a de novo genome assembly and annotation of Gracilaria domingensis …

Colocality to cofunctionality: eukaryotic gene neighborhoods as a resource for function discovery

F Foflonker, CE Blaby-Haas - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Diverging from the classic paradigm of random gene order in eukaryotes, gene proximity
can be leveraged to systematically identify functionally related gene neighborhoods in …