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    Data Sheet    

foto Dr. Tal Dagan
Institut für Botanik III
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Universitätsstr.1
Building 26.13.01
Room: 40

40225 Düsseldorf

Tel: +49 211 81 12736
Fax: +49 211 81 13554


    Publications    
    2009    

Atteia A, Adrait A, Brugiere S, Tardif M, van Lis R, Deusch O, Dagan T, Kuhn L, Gontero B, Martin W, Garin J, Joyard J, Rolland N: A proteomic survey of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondria sheds new light on the metabolic plasticity of the organelle and on the nature of the alpha-proteobacterial mitochondrial ancestor.
Mol Biol Evol. 26:1533-48 (2009).
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Roettger M, Martin W, Dagan T: A machine-learning approach reveals that alignment properties alone can accurately predict inference of lateral gene transfer from discordant phylogenies.
Mol Biol Evol. 26:1931-9 (2009).
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Dagan T, Martin W: Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes.
Science. 324:1651-2 (2009).
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Dagan T, Martin W: Getting a better picture of microbial evolution en route to a network of genomes.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 364:2187-96 (2009).
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Bapteste E, O'Malley MA, Beiko RG, Ereshefsky M, Gogarten JP, Franklin-Hall L, Lapointe FJ, Dupre J, Dagan T, Boucher Y, Martin W: Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things.
Biol Direct. 4:34 (2009).
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    2008    

Basu MK, Rogozin IB, Deusch O, Dagan T, Martin W, Koonin EV: Evolutionary dynamics of introns in plastid-derived genes in plants: saturation nearly reached but slow intron gain continues.
Mol Biol Evol. 25:111-9 (2008).
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Deusch O, Landan G, Roettger M, Gruenheit N, Kowallik KV, Allen JF, Martin W, Dagan T: Genes of cyanobacterial origin in plant nuclear genomes point to a heterocyst-forming plastid ancestor.
Mol Biol Evol. 25:748-61 (2008).
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Dagan T, Artzy-Randrup Y, Martin W: Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105:10039-44 (2008).
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    2007    

Dagan T, Martin W: Ancestral genome sizes specify the minimum rate of lateral gene transfer during prokaryote evolution.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104:870-5 (2007).
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Eßer C, Martin W, Dagan T: The origin of mitochondria in light of a fluid prokaryotic chromosome model.
Biol Lett. 3:180-4 (2007).
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Dagan T, Martin W: Testing hypotheses without considering predictions.
Bioessays. 29:500-3 (2007).
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Martin W, Dagan T, Koonin EV, Dipippo JL, Gogarten JP, Lake JA: The evolution of eukaryotes.
Science. 316:542-3; author reply 542-3 (2007).
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Ahmadinejad N, Dagan T, Martin W: Genome history in the symbiotic hybrid Euglena gracilis.
Gene. 402:35-9 (2007).
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Kilian B, Ozkan H, Walther A, Kohl J, Dagan T, Salamini F, Martin W: Molecular diversity at 18 loci in 321 wild and 92 domesticate lines reveal no reduction of nucleotide diversity during Triticum monococcum (Einkorn) domestication: implications for the origin of agriculture.
Mol Biol Evol. 24:2657-68 (2007).
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    2006    

Dagan T, Blekhman R, Graur D: The "domino theory" of gene death: gradual and mass gene extinction events in three lineages of obligate symbiotic bacterial pathogens.
Mol Biol Evol. 23:310-6 (2006).
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Dagan T, Martin W: The tree of one percent.
Genome Biol. 7:118 (2006).
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    2005    

Dagan T, Graur D: The comparative method rules! Codon volatility cannot detect positive Darwinian selection using a single genome sequence.
Mol Biol Evol. 22:496-500 (2005).
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Cohen N, Dagan T, Stone L, Graur D: GC composition of the human genome: in search of isochores.
Mol Biol Evol. 22:1260-72 (2005).
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    2004    

Dagan T, Sorek R, Sharon E, Ast G, Graur D: AluGene: a database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes.
Nucleic Acids Res. 32:D489-92 (2004).
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Sorek R, Lev-Maor G, Reznik M, Dagan T, Belinky F, Graur D, Ast G: Minimal conditions for exonization of intronic sequences: 5' splice site formation in alu exons.
Mol Cell. 14:221-31 (2004).
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    2003    

Fleishman SJ, Dagan T, Graur D: pANT: a method for the pairwise assessment of nonfunctionalization times of processed pseudogenes.
Mol Biol Evol. 20:1876-80 (2003).
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    2002    

Dagan T, Talmor Y, Graur D: Ratios of radical to conservative amino acid replacement are affected by mutational and compositional factors and may not be indicative of positive Darwinian selection.
Mol Biol Evol. 19:1022-5 (2002).
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  Group Leader

bullet William Martin

Secretary

bullet Bettina Jensen
bullet Doris Matthée
bullet Re-Young Yu

PostDocs

bullet Tal Dagan
bullet Britta Pinzger
bullet Oliver Deusch
bullet Sven B. Gould
bullet Katrin Henze
bullet Liat Shavit Grievink

PhD Students

bullet Kai Ming Cheung
bullet Christian Eßer
bullet Nicole Grünheit
bullet Kathrin Hoffmann
bullet Thorsten Klösges
bullet Peter Major
bullet Shijulal NS
bullet Xavier Pereira Bras
bullet Ovidiu Popa
bullet Mayo Röttger
bullet Verena Zimorski

Undergraduates

bullet David Bogumil
bullet Evgin Demir
bullet Annette Kürten
bullet Thorsten Thiergart
bullet Nicolai Willinek

Technical Assistants

bullet Claudia Kirberich
bullet Margarete Stracke