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Dr. Tal Dagan
Institut für Molekulare Evolution
Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Universitätsstr.1
Building 26.13.01
Room: 40
40225 Düsseldorf
Tel: +49 211 81 12736
Fax: +49 211 81 13554
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Wagele H, Deusch O, Handeler K, Martin R, Schmitt V, Christa G, Pinzger B, Gould SB, Dagan T, Klussmann-Kolb A, Martin W: Transcriptomic evidence that longevity of acquired plastids in the photosynthetic slugs Elysia timida and Plackobranchus ocellatus does not entail lateral transfer of algal nuclear genes.
Mol Biol Evol 28:699-706 (2011). |

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Kloesges T, Popa O, Martin W, Dagan T: Networks of gene sharing among 329 proteobacterial genomes reveal differences in lateral gene transfer frequency at different phylogenetic depths.
Mol Biol Evol 28:1057-74 (2011). |

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NS Shijulal, List JM, Geisler H, Fangerau H, Gray RD, Martin W, Dagan T: Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution.
Proc Biol Sci 278:1794-803 (2011). |

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Popa O, Hazkani-Covo E, Landan G, Martin W, Dagan T: Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes.
Genome Res 21:599-609 (2011). |

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Dagan T: Phylogenomic networks.
Trends Microbiol 19:483-91 (2011). |

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Popa O, Dagan T: Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes.
Curr Opin Microbiol in press (2011). |

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Woehle C, Dagan T, Martin W, Gould SB: Red and Problematic Green Phylogenetic Signals among Thousands of Nuclear Genes from the Photosynthetic and Apicomplexa-Related Chromera velia.
Genome Biol Evol 3:1220-30 (2011). |

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Burstein D, Gould SB, Zimorski V, Kloesges T, Kiosse F, Major P, Martin W, Pupko T, Dagan T: A machine-learning approach to identify hydrogenosomal proteins in Trichomonas vaginalis.
Eukaryot Cell in press (2011). |

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Ahmadinejad N, Dagan T, Gruenheit N, Martin W, Gabaldon T: Evolution of spliceosomal introns following endosymbiotic gene transfer.
BMC Evol Biol 10:57 (2010). |

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Dagan T, Roettger M, Bryant D, Martin W: Genome networks root the tree of life between prokaryotic domains.
Genome Biol Evol 2:379-92 (2010). |

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Bogumil D, Dagan T: Chaperonin-dependent accelerated substitution rates in prokaryotes.
Genome Biol Evol 2:602-8 (2010). |

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
William Martin
Secretary
Ariane Baab
Doris Matthée
PostDocs
Tal Dagan
Sven B. Gould
Katrin Henze
Valérie Schmitt
Karina Stucken
Verena Zimorski
PhD Students
David Bogumil
Kai Ming Cheung
Houda El-Haddad
Jörn Habicht
Kathrin Hoffmann
Gary Kusdian
Peter Major
Shijulal NS
Xavier Pereira Bras
Ovidiu Popa
Mayo Röttger
Thorsten Thiergart
Christian Wöhle
Re-Young Yu
Undergraduates
Judith Ilhan
Arne Kleinermanns
Robin Koch
Harald Preisner
Technical Assistants
Claudia Kirberich
Margarete Stracke
Elke Wieneke
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