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Simon E. Prochnik

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The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions

2007

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as the structure, assembly, and function of eukaryotic flagella (cilia), which were inherited from the common ancestor of plants and animals, but lost in land plants. We sequenced the ∼120-megabase nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas and performed comparative phylogenomic analyses, identifying genes encoding uncharacterized proteins that are likely associated with the function and biogenesis of chloroplasts or eukaryotic flagella. Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance our understanding of the a…

0106 biological sciencesMESH: Sequence Analysis DNAMESH: Algal ProteinsChloroplastsProteomeMESH: PlantsChlamydomonas reinhardtii01 natural sciencesGenomeMESH: Membrane Transport ProteinsDNA AlgalMESH: DNA AlgalMESH: AnimalsGoniumPhotosynthesisMESH: PhylogenyMESH: PhotosynthesisPhylogenyGenetics0303 health sciencesGenomeMultidisciplinarybiologyMESH: Genomicsfood and beveragesGenomicsPlantsBiological EvolutionMESH: Genes[SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry Molecular Biology/Biomolecules [q-bio.BM]MESH: ProteomeFlagellaMultigene FamilyMESH: Computational BiologyMESH: Chlamydomonas reinhardtiiNuclear geneMolecular Sequence Data[SDV.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular BiologyFlagellumMESH: FlagellaArticle03 medical and health sciencesIntraflagellar transportMESH: EvolutionAnimalsMESH: Genome[SDV.BBM.BC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry Molecular Biology/Biochemistry [q-bio.BM]Gene[SDV.BC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cellular Biology030304 developmental biologyMESH: Molecular Sequence DataMESH: ChloroplastsAlgal ProteinsChlamydomonasComputational BiologyMembrane Transport ProteinsSequence Analysis DNAbiology.organism_classificationGenesMESH: Multigene FamilyChlamydomonas reinhardtii010606 plant biology & botany
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Porphyra (Bangiophyceae) Transcriptomes Provide Insights Into Red Algal Development And Metabolism.

2012

The red seaweed Porphyra (Bangiophyceae) and related Bangiales have global economic importance. Here, we report the analysis of a comprehensive transcriptome comprising ca. 4.7 million expressed sequence tag (EST) reads from P. umbilicalis (L.) J. Agardh and P. purpurea (Roth) C. Agardh (ca. 980 Mbp of data generated using 454 FLX pyrosequencing). These ESTs were isolated from the haploid gametophyte (blades from both species) and diploid conchocelis stage (from P. purpurea). In a bioinformatic analysis, only 20% of the contigs were found to encode proteins of known biological function. Comparative analysis of predicted protein functions in mesophilic (including Porphyra) and extremophilic …

GametophyteGeneticsExpressed sequence tagbiologyBangiophyceaePlant ScienceRed algaeAquatic Sciencebiology.organism_classificationPorphyraTranscriptomeRibosomal proteinBotanyGeneJournal of phycology
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