Sex is shrouded in mystery. Not only does it preferentially occur in the dark for both fungi
and many animals, but evolutionary biologists continue to debate its benefits given costs in …

Eukaryogenesis, the origin of the eukaryotic cell, represents one of the fundamental
evolutionary transitions in the history of life on earth. This event, which is estimated to have …

Symbiosis between dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium and reef-building corals
forms the trophic foundation of the world's coral reef ecosystems. Here we present the first …

Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

Chlorella variabilis NC64A, a unicellular photosynthetic green alga (Trebouxiophyceae), is
an intracellular photobiont of Paramecium bursaria and a model system for studying …

Despite being a frequent cause of severe diarrheal disease in infants and an opportunistic
infection in immunocompromised patients, Cryptosporidium research has lagged due to a …

The limited knowledge we have about red algal genomes comes from the highly specialized
extremophiles, Cyanidiophyceae. Here, we describe the first genome sequence from a …

Abstract Background Lichens, encompassing 20,000 known species, are symbioses
between specialized fungi (mycobionts), mostly ascomycetes, and unicellular green algae or …

Nannochloropsis is rapidly emerging as a model organism for the study of biofuel production
in microalgae. Here, we report a high-quality genomic assembly of Nannochloropsis …

Sexual reproduction is a nearly universal feature of eukaryotic organisms. Given its ubiquity
and shared core features, sex is thought to have arisen once in the last common ancestor to …