Dinoflagellates: a remarkable evolutionary experiment

JD Hackett, DM Anderson, DL Erdner… - American journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we focus on dinoflagellate ecology, toxin production, fossil record, and a
molecular phylogenetic analysis of hosts and plastids. Of ecological interest are the …

Dinoflagellate genome evolution

JH Wisecaver, JD Hackett - Annual review of microbiology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The dinoflagellates are an ecologically important group of microbial eukaryotes that have
evolved many novel genomic characteristics. They possess some of the largest nuclear …

Draft assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum nuclear genome reveals dinoflagellate gene structure

E Shoguchi, C Shinzato, T Kawashima, F Gyoja… - Current biology, 2013 - cell.com
Background Dinoflagellates are known for their capacity to form harmful blooms (eg," red
tides") and as symbiotic, photosynthetic partners for corals. These unicellular eukaryotes …

Differential responses of the coral host and their algal symbiont to thermal stress

W Leggat, F Seneca, K Wasmund, L Ukani… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The success of any symbiosis under stress conditions is dependent upon the responses of
both partners to that stress. The coral symbiosis is particularly susceptible to small increases …

[HTML][HTML] Reactive oxygen species: reactions and detection from photosynthetic tissues

H Mattila, S Khorobrykh, V Havurinne… - Journal of Photochemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have long been recognized as compounds with dual roles.
They cause cellular damage by reacting with biomolecules but they also function as agents …

Spliced leader–based metatranscriptomic analyses lead to recognition of hidden genomic features in dinoflagellates

S Lin, H Zhang, Y Zhuang, B Tran… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Environmental transcriptomics (metatranscriptomics) for a specific lineage of eukaryotic
microbes (eg, Dinoflagellata) would be instrumental for unraveling the genetic mechanisms …

Loss of nucleosomal DNA condensation coincides with appearance of a novel nuclear protein in dinoflagellates

SG Gornik, KL Ford, TD Mulhern, A Bacic… - Current Biology, 2012 - cell.com
Background The packaging, expression, and maintenance of nuclear genomes using
histone proteins is a ubiquitous and fundamental feature of eukaryotic cells, yet the phylum …

Insights into a dinoflagellate genome through expressed sequence tag analysis

JD Hackett, TE Scheetz, HS Yoon, MB Soares… - BMC genomics, 2005 - Springer
Background Dinoflagellates are important marine primary producers and grazers and cause
toxic" red tides". These taxa are characterized by many unique features such as immense …

Analysis of rRNA gene content in the Mediterranean dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella and Alexandrium taylori: implications for the quantitative real-time PCR …

L Galluzzi, E Bertozzini, A Penna, F Perini… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - Springer
A number of species belonging to the genus Alexandrium are among the main toxic
microalgae responsible for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). The monitoring of coastal waters …

Dinoflagellate amphiesmal dynamics: Cell wall deposition with ecdysis and cellular growth

ACM Kwok, WS Chan, JTY Wong - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dinoflagellates are a major aquatic protist group with amphiesma, multiple cortical
membranous “cell wall” layers that contain large circum-cortical alveolar sacs (AVs). AVs …