Chloroviruses

JL Van Etten, IV Agarkova, DD Dunigan - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chloroviruses are large dsDNA, plaque-forming viruses that infect certain chlorella-like
green algae; the algae are normally mutualistic endosymbionts of protists and metazoans …

Paramecium Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution

H Long, P Johri, JF Gout, J Ni, Y Hao… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The ciliate genus Paramecium served as one of the first model systems in microbial
eukaryotic genetics, contributing much to the early understanding of phenomena as diverse …

Novel Ciliate Genetic Code Variants Including the Reassignment of All Three Stop Codons to Sense Codons in Condylostoma magnum

SM Heaphy, M Mariotti, VN Gladyshev… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract mRNA translation in many ciliates utilizes variant genetic codes where stop codons
are reassigned to specify amino acids. To characterize the repertoire of ciliate genetic …

Genome sequences of Chlorella sorokiniana UTEX 1602 and Micractinium conductrix SAG 241.80: implications to maltose excretion by a green alga

MB Arriola, N Velmurugan, Y Zhang… - The plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Green algae represent a key segment of the global species capable of photoautotrophic‐
driven biological carbon fixation. Algae partition fixed‐carbon into chemical compounds …

Metabolic co-dependence drives the evolutionarily ancient Hydra–Chlorella symbiosis

M Hamada, K Schröder, J Bathia, U Kürn, S Fraune… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Many multicellular organisms rely on symbiotic associations for support of metabolic activity,
protection, or energy. Understanding the mechanisms involved in controlling such …

Genetic basis for the establishment of endosymbiosis in Paramecium

M He, J Wang, X Fan, X Liu, W Shi, N Huang… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The single-celled ciliate Paramecium bursaria is an indispensable model for investigating
endosymbiosis between protists and green-algal symbionts. To elucidate the mechanism of …

Tracking the early events of photosymbiosis evolution

L Quevarec, G Brasseur, D Aragnol, C Robaglia - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis evolved in cyanobacteria around 3.2 giga-annum (Ga) ago and
was acquired by eukaryotes starting around 1.8 Ga ago by endosymbiosis. Photosymbiosis …

NMDA receptor activation upstream of methyl farnesoate signaling for short day-induced male offspring production in the water flea, Daphnia pulex

K Toyota, H Miyakawa, K Yamaguchi, S Shigenobu… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The cladoceran crustacean Daphnia pulex produces female offspring
by parthenogenesis under favorable conditions, but in response to various unfavorable …

Chloroviruses have a sweet tooth

JL Van Etten, I Agarkova, DD Dunigan, M Tonetti… - Viruses, 2017 - mdpi.com
Chloroviruses are large double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses that infect certain isolates of
chlorella-like green algae. They contain up to approximately 400 protein-encoding genes …

Characterization of a new chlorovirus type with permissive and non-permissive features on phylogenetically related algal strains

CF Quispe, A Esmael, O Sonderman, M McQuinn… - Virology, 2017 - Elsevier
A previous report indicated that prototype chlorovirus PBCV-1 replicated in two Chlorella
variabilis algal strains, NC64A and Syngen 2–3, that are ex-endosymbionts isolated from the …