The new tree of eukaryotes

F Burki, AJ Roger, MW Brown, AGB Simpson - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
For 15 years, the eukaryote Tree of Life (eToL) has been divided into five to eight major
grou**s, known as 'supergroups'. However, the tree has been profoundly rearranged …

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

PJ Keeling, JD Palmer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

BMGE (Block Map** and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

A Criscuolo, S Gribaldo - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background The quality of multiple sequence alignments plays an important role in the
accuracy of phylogenetic inference. It has been shown that removing ambiguously aligned …

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

PJ Keeling - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many
similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the …

The number, speed, and impact of plastid endosymbioses in eukaryotic evolution

PJ Keeling - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Plastids (chloroplasts) have long been recognized to have originated by endosymbiosis of a
cyanobacterium, but their subsequent evolutionary history has proved complex because …

Untangling the early diversification of eukaryotes: a phylogenomic study of the evolutionary origins of Centrohelida, Haptophyta and Cryptista

F Burki, M Kaplan, DV Tikhonenkov… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Assembling the global eukaryotic tree of life has long been a major effort of Biology. In
recent years, pushed by the new availability of genome-scale data for microbial eukaryotes …

The eukaryotic tree of life from a global phylogenomic perspective

F Burki - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized our knowledge of the eukaryotic tree of life. With
the advent of genomics, a new discipline of phylogenetics has emerged: phylogenomics …

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

AZ Worden, JH Lee, T Mock, P Rouzé, MP Simmons… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Picoeukaryotes are a taxonomically diverse group of organisms less than 2 micrometers in
diameter. Photosynthetic marine picoeukaryotes in the genus Micromonas thrive in …

A common red algal origin of the apicomplexan, dinoflagellate, and heterokont plastids

J Janouškovec, A Horák, M Oborník… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The discovery of a nonphotosynthetic plastid in malaria and other apicomplexan parasites
has sparked a contentious debate about its evolutionary origin. Molecular data have led to …

Plastid evolution

SB Gould, RF Waller, GI McFadden - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The ancestors of modern cyanobacteria invented O2-generating photosynthesis some 3.6
billion years ago. The conversion of water and CO2 into energy-rich sugars and O2 slowly …