Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses? (2009)
Stiller, John W, Huang, Jinling, Ding, Qin, Tian, Jing, Goodwillie, Carol
Abstract Background How photosynthetic organelles, or plastids, were acquired by diverse eukaryotes is among the most hotly debated topics in broad scale eukaryotic evolution. The history of plastid...
The cellulose synthase superfamily in fully sequenced plants and algae (2009)
Yin, Yanbin, Huang, Jinling, Xu, Ying
Abstract Background The cellulose synthase superfamily has been classified into nine cellulose synthase-like (Csl) families and one cellulose synthase (CesA) family. The Csl families have been...
Analyses of domains and domain fusions in human proto-oncogenes (2009)
Liu, Qi, Huang, Jinling, Liu, Huiqing, Wan, Ping, Ye, Xiuzi, Xu, Ying
Abstract Background Understanding the constituent domains of oncogenes, their origins and their fusions may shed new light about the initiation and the development of cancers. Results We have...
Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution (2008)
Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, J Peter
Abstract Background Horizontal gene transfer occurs frequently in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes. Anciently acquired genes, if retained among descendants, might significantly affect the...
Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids? (2007)
Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, Johann
Abstract Background Ancient endosymbioses are responsible for the origins of mitochondria and plastids, and they contribute to the divergence of several major eukaryotic groups. Although chlamydiae,...
Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids? (2007)
Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, Johann Peter
© 2007 Huang and Gogarten. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in...
Huang, Jinling, Xu, Ying, Gogarten, Johann Peter
Lateral gene transfer plays an important role in the evolution of life. Events of ancient gene transfer can transmit genetic novelties to descendent lineages and subsequently shape their genetic...
Huang, Jinling, Xu, Ying, Gogarten, Johann Peter
Lateral gene transfer plays an important role in the evolution of life. Events of ancient gene transfer can transmit genetic novelties to descendent lineages and subsequently shape their genetic...
Huang, Jinling, Xu, Ying, Gogarten, Johann Peter
Lateral gene transfer plays an important role in the evolution of life. Events of ancient gene transfer can transmit genetic novelties to descendent lineages and subsequently shape their genetic...
Huang, Jinling, Mullapudi, Nandita, Lancto, Cheryl A, Scott, Marla, Abrahamsen, Mitchell S, Kissinger, Jessica C
Abstract Background The apicomplexan parasite Cryptosporidium parvum is an emerging pathogen capable of causing illness in humans and other animals and death in immunocompromised individuals. No...
Estimation of the Age of Extant Ephedra using Chloroplast RBCL Sequence Data (2003)
Huang, Jinling, Price, Robert A.
The distinctive gymnosperm genus Ephedra is sometimes considered to have originated over 200 million years (Myr) ago on the basis of "ephedroid" fossil pollen. In this paper we estimate the age of...
A comparison of physical mapping algorithms based on the maximum likelihood model (2003)
Huang, Jinling, Bhandarkar, Suchendra M.
Motivation: Physical mapping of chromosomes using the maximum likelihood (ML) model is a problem of high computational complexity entailing both discrete optimization to recover the optimal probe...
Estimation of the Age of Extant Ephedra using Chloroplast RBCL Sequence Data (2003)
Huang, Jinling, Price, Robert A.
The distinctive gymnosperm genus Ephedra is sometimes considered to have originated over 200 million years (Myr) ago on the basis of "ephedroid" fossil pollen. In this paper we estimate the age of...
Gene transfer in the evolution of parasite nucleotide biosynthesis
Striepen, Boris, Pruijssers, Andrea J. P., Huang, Jinling, Li, Catherine, Gubbels, Marc-Jan, Umejiego, Nwakaso N., ...
Nucleotide metabolic pathways provide numerous successful targets for antiparasitic chemotherapy, but the human pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum thus far has proved extraordinarily refractory to...
Huang, Jinling, Mullapudi, Nandita, Lancto, Cheryl A, Scott, Marla, Abrahamsen, Mitchell S, Kissinger, Jessica C
An analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum genes of likely endosymbiont or prokaryotic origin supports the hypothesis that C. arvum evolved from a plastid-containing lineage.
Gene transfer in the evolution of parasite nucleotide biosynthesis
Striepen, Boris, Pruijssers, Andrea J. P., Huang, Jinling, Li, Catherine, Gubbels, Marc-Jan, Umejiego, Nwakaso N., ...
Nucleotide metabolic pathways provide numerous successful targets for antiparasitic chemotherapy, but the human pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum thus far has proved extraordinarily refractory to...
Huang, Jinling, Mullapudi, Nandita, Lancto, Cheryl A, Scott, Marla, Abrahamsen, Mitchell S, Kissinger, Jessica C
An analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum genes of likely endosymbiont or prokaryotic origin supports the hypothesis that C. arvum evolved from a plastid-containing lineage.
Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?
Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, Johann Peter
Phylogenomic analyses of the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae shows that at least 21 genes were transferred between chlamydiae and primary photosynthetic eukaryotes, suggesting an ancient chlamydial...
Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution
Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, J Peter
Analyses of the red algal Cyanidioschyzon genome identified 37 genes that were acquired from non-organellar sources prior to the split of red algae and green plants.