Horizontal transfer of a eukaryotic plastid-targeted protein gene to cyanobacteria (2007)
Rogers, Matthew B, Patron, Nicola J, Keeling, Patrick J
Abstract Background Horizontal or lateral transfer of genetic material between distantly related prokaryotes has been shown to play a major role in the evolution of bacterial and archaeal genomes,...
Rogers, Matthew B, Watkins, Russell F, Harper, James T, Durnford, Dion G, Gray, Michael W, Keeling, Patrick J
Abstract Background Lateral gene transfer is increasingly invoked to explain phylogenetic results that conflict with our understanding of organismal relationships. In eukaryotes, the most common...
Complex distribution of EFL and EF-1α proteins in the green algal lineage (2007)
Noble, Geoffrey P, Rogers, Matthew B, Keeling, Patrick J
Abstract Background EFL (or elongation factor-like) is a member of the translation superfamily of GTPase proteins. It is restricted to eukaryotes, where it is found in a punctate distribution that is...
Rogers, Matthew B., Gilson, Paul R., Su, Vanessa, McFadden, Geoffrey I., Keeling, Patrick J.
Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboflagellate cercozoans that acquired a plastid by secondary endosymbiosis. Chlorarachniophytes are the last major group of algae for which there is no completely...
Comparative rates of evolution in endosymbiotic nuclear genomes (2006)
Patron, Nicola J, Rogers, Matthew B, Keeling, Patrick J
Abstract Background The nucleomorphs associated with secondary plastids of cryptomonads and chlorarachniophytes are the sole examples of organelles with eukaryotic nuclear genomes. Although not as...
Rogers, Matthew B., Gilson, Paul R., Su, Vanessa, McFadden, Geoffrey I., Keeling, Patrick J.
Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboflagellate cercozoans that acquired a plastid by secondary endosymbiosis. Chlorarachniophytes are the last major group of algae for which there is no completely...
Plastid-Targeting Peptides from the Chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans (2004)
MATTHEW B. ROGERS, JOHN M. ARCHIBALD, MATTHEW A. FIELD, CATHERINE LI, BORIS STRIEPEN, PATRICK J. KEELING
Chlorarachniophytes are marine amoeboflagellate protists that have acquired their plastid (chloroplast) through secondary endosymbiosis with a green alga. Like other algae, most of the proteins...
Archibald, John M., Rogers, Matthew B., Toop, Michael, Ishida, Ken-ichiro, Keeling, Patrick J.
Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboflagellate algae that acquired photosynthesis secondarily by engulfing a green alga and retaining its plastid (chloroplast). An important consequence of secondary...
Patron, Nicola J., Rogers, Matthew B., Keeling, Patrick J.
Plastids (photosynthetic organelles of plants and algae) are known to have spread between eukaryotic lineages by secondary endosymbiosis, that is, by the uptake of a eukaryotic alga by another...
Archibald, John M., Rogers, Matthew B., Toop, Michael, Ishida, Ken-ichiro, Keeling, Patrick J.
Chlorarachniophytes are amoeboflagellate algae that acquired photosynthesis secondarily by engulfing a green alga and retaining its plastid (chloroplast). An important consequence of secondary...
Patron, Nicola J., Rogers, Matthew B., Keeling, Patrick J.
Plastids (photosynthetic organelles of plants and algae) are known to have spread between eukaryotic lineages by secondary endosymbiosis, that is, by the uptake of a eukaryotic alga by another...
A complex and punctate distribution of three eukaryotic genes derived by lateral gene transfer
Rogers, Matthew B, Watkins, Russell F, Harper, James T, Durnford, Dion G, Gray, Michael W, Keeling, Patrick J
Localization and nucleotide specificity of Blastocystis succinyl-CoA synthetase
Hamblin, Karleigh, Standley, Daron M, Rogers, Matthew B, Stechmann, Alexandra, Roger, Andrew J, Maytum, Robin, ...
The anaerobic lifestyle of the intestinal parasite Blastocystis raises questions about the biochemistry and function of its mitochondria-like organelles. We have characterized the Blastocystis...
The ancestral symbiont sensor kinase CSK links photosynthesis with gene expression in chloroplasts
Puthiyaveetil, Sujith, Kavanagh, T. Anthony, Cain, Peter, Sullivan, James A., Newell, Christine A., Gray, John C., ...
We describe a novel, typically prokaryotic, sensor kinase in chloroplasts of green plants. The gene for this chloroplast sensor kinase (CSK) is found in cyanobacteria, prokaryotes from which...