Ever since its discovery, the double-stranded DNA contained in the mitochondria of
eukaryotes has fascinated researchers because of its bacterial endosymbiotic origin, crucial …

Abstract In 2010, when the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts
(NAABB) consortium began, little was known about the molecular basis of algal biomass or …

Motivation With a large number of metagenomic datasets becoming available, eukaryotic
metagenomics emerged as a new challenge. The proper classification of eukaryotic nuclear …

The chloroplast genomes of many algae and almost all land plants carry two identical copies
of a large inverted repeat (IR) sequence that can pair for flip-flop recombination and undergo …

Rapidly accumulating genetic data from environmental sequencing approaches have
revealed an extraordinary level of unsuspected diversity within marine phytoplankton, 1–11 …

Haptophytes are recognized as seminal players in aquatic ecosystem function. These algae
are important in global carbon sequestration, form destructive harmful blooms, and given …

Symbiosis between prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes (protists) has broadly impacted
both evolution and ecology. Endosymbiosis led to mitochondria and plastids, the latter …

Comparative analyses of green algal plastid genomes (plastomes) have flourished in the
past decade. In addition to improving our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships …

Plastids, similar to mitochondria, are organelles of endosymbiotic origin, which retained their
vestigial genomes (ptDNA). Their unique architecture, commonly referred to as the …

Background Two non-homologous, isofunctional enzymes catalyze the penultimate step of
chlorophyll a synthesis in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria …