The dinoflagellates are an ecologically important group of microbial eukaryotes that have
evolved many novel genomic characteristics. They possess some of the largest nuclear …

Marine eukaryotic photosynthesis is dominated by a diverse group of unicellular organisms
collectively called microalgae. Microalgae include cells derived from a primary …

The phylum of dinoflagellates is characterized by many unusual and interesting genomic
and physiological features, the imprint of which, in its immense genome, remains elusive …

Previous phylogenetic studies of the Rhodophyta have provided a framework for
understanding red algal phylogeny, but there still exists the need for a comprehensive …

We studied the variability of in vivo absorption coefficients and PSII‐scaled fluorescence
excitation (fl‐ex) spectra of high light (HL) and low light (LL) acclimated cultures of 33 …

Symbiotic animals containing green photobionts challenge the common perception that only
plants are capable of capturing the sun's rays and converting them into biological energy …

Here we use phylogenomics with expressed sequence tag (EST) data from the ecologically
important coccolithophore-forming alga Emiliania huxleyi and the plastid-lacking …

Algae with secondary plastids of a red algal origin, such as ochrophytes (photosynthetic
stramenopiles), are diverse and ecologically important, yet their evolutionary history remains …

Recent suggestions that endosymbionts in a diatom and an amoeba represent independent
origins of plastids from those in plants and algae raise again the question of how many times …

Proteins are targeted to plastids by N‐terminal transit peptides, which are recognized by
protein import complexes in the organelle membranes. Historically, transit peptide properties …