Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life

D Speijer, J Lukeš, M Eliáš - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Population genomics of picophytoplankton unveils novel chromosome hypervariability

R Blanc-Mathieu, M Krasovec, M Hebrard, S Yau… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Tiny photosynthetic microorganisms that form the picoplankton (between 0.3 and 3 μm in
diameter) are at the base of the food web in many marine ecosystems, and their adaptability …

Diversity and evolution of Mamiellophyceae: early-diverging Phytoplanktonic Green algae containing many cosmopolitan species

CCM Yung, E Rey Redondo, F Sanchez, S Yau… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The genomic revolution has bridged a gap in our knowledge about the diversity, biology and
evolution of unicellular photosynthetic eukaryotes, which bear very few discriminating …

An improved genome of the model marine alga Ostreococcus tauri unfolds by assessing Illumina de novo assemblies

R Blanc-Mathieu, B Verhelst, E Derelle, S Rombauts… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Cost effective next generation sequencing technologies now enable the
production of genomic datasets for many novel planktonic eukaryotes, representing an …

Sex-linked deubiquitinase establishes uniparental transmission of chloroplast DNA

S Joo, T Kariyawasam, M Kim, ES Jin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Most sexual organisms inherit organelles from one parent, commonly by excluding
organelles from the smaller gametes. However, post-mating elimination of organelles …

The mutational hazard hypothesis of organelle genome evolution: 10 years on

DR Smith - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Why is there such a large variation in size and noncoding DNA content among organelle
genomes? One explanation is that this genomic variation results from differences in the rates …

Metabolic profiling identifies trehalose as an abundant and diurnally fluctuating metabolite in the microalga Ostreococcus tauri

M Hirth, S Liverani, S Mahlow, FY Bouget, G Pohnert… - Metabolomics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Introduction The picoeukaryotic alga Ostreococcus tauri (Chlorophyta) belongs to
the widespread group of marine prasinophytes. Despite its ecological importance, little is …

Bacteria in Ostreococcus tauri cultures – friends, foes or hitchhikers?

SS Abby, M Touchon, A De Jode, N Grimsley… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Marine phytoplankton produce half of the oxygen we breathe and their astounding diversity
is just starting to be unraveled. Many microbial phytoplankton are thought to be phototrophic …

Comparative Plastid Genomics of Cryptomonas Species Reveals Fine-Scale Genomic Responses to Loss of Photosynthesis

G Tanifuji, R Kamikawa, CE Moore… - Genome Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Loss of photosynthesis is a recurring theme in eukaryotic evolution. In organisms that have
lost the ability to photosynthesize, nonphotosynthetic plastids are retained because they …

Tracing the evolution of the plastome and mitogenome in the Chloropicophyceae uncovered convergent tRNA gene losses and a variant plastid genetic code

M Turmel, A Lopes dos Santos, C Otis… - Genome Biology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The tiny green algae belonging to the Chloropicophyceae play a key role in marine
phytoplankton communities; this newly erected class of prasinophytes comprises two genera …