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Deusch O, Dagan T, Martin W
Trees for all Arabidopsis thaliana proteins compared against 237 reference genomes reveals that 16 % come from cyanobacteria (with NJ).
Munich, Germany 2006   PDF

Deusch O, McFadden G, Martin W
Genome-wide evolutionary analyses indicate a red, not a green, ancestry of the apicomplexan plastid.
FEBS Advanced Course on Origin and Evolution of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts. Wildbad Kreuth, Germany 2005   PDF

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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Ma Y, Jakowitsch J, Deusch O, Henze K, Martin W, Loffelhardt W: Transketolase from Cyanophora paradoxa: in vitro import into cyanelles and pea chloroplasts and a complex history of a gene often, but not always, transferred in the context of secondary endosymbiosis. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 56:568-76 (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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