Martin W: Hydrothermalquellen und der Ursprung des Lebens. Biologie in unserer Zeit. 39:166-74 (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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Vesteg M, Vacula R, Burey S, Loffelhardt W, Drahovska H, Martin W, Krajcovic J: Expression of Nucleus-Encoded Genes for Chloroplast Proteins in the Flagellate Euglena gracilis. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 56:159-66 (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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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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van Grinsven KW, Rosnowsky S, van Weelden SW, Pütz S, van der Giezen M, Martin W, van Hellemond JJ, Tielens AG, Henze K: Acetate:succinate CoA-transferase in the hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis: identification and characterization. J Biol Chem. 283:1411-8 (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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Theissen U, Martin W: Sulfide : quinone oxidoreductase (SQR) from the lugworm Arenicola marina shows cyanide- and thioredoxin-dependent activity. FEBS J. 275:1131-9 (2008).

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Gruenheit N, Lockhart PJ, Steel M, Martin W: Difficulties in testing for covarion-like properties of sequences under the confounding influence of changing proportions of variable sites. Mol Biol Evol. 25:1512-20 (2008).

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Mentel M, Martin W: Energy metabolism among eukaryotic anaerobes in light of Proterozoic ocean chemistry. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 363:2717-29 (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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Mentel M, Zimorski V, Haferkamp P, Martin W, Henze K: Protein import into hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis involves both N-terminal and internal targeting signals: a case study of thioredoxin reductases. Eukaryot Cell. 7:1750-7 (2008).

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Martin W, Baross J, Kelley D, Russell MJ: Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life. Nat Rev Microbiol. 6:805-14 (2008).

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Nakamura Y, Itoh T, Martin W: Rate and polarity of gene fusion and fission in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Biol Evol. 24:110-21 (2007).

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Kilian B, Ozkan H, Deusch O, Effgen S, Brandolini A, Kohl J, Martin W, Salamini F: Independent wheat B and g genome origins in outcrossing aegilops progenitor haplotypes. Mol Biol Evol. 24:217-27 (2007).

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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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Winkler C, Delvos B, Martin W, Henze K: Purification, microsequencing and cloning of spinach ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase link sequence and function for the plant enzyme. FEBS J. 274:429-38 (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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Martin W, Russell MJ: On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 362:1887-925 (2007).

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Allen JF, Martin W: Evolutionary biology: out of thin air. Nature. 445:610-2 (2007).

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Tucci S, Martin W: A novel prokaryotic trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase from the spirochete Treponema denticola. FEBS Lett. 581:1561-6 (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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Martin W, Roettger M, Lockhart PJ: A reality check for alignments and trees. Trends Genet. 23:478-80 (2007).

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Eßer C, Martin W: Supertrees and symbiosis in eukaryote genome evolution. Trends Microbiol. 15:435-7 (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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Torrents E, Trevisiol C, Rotte C, Hellman U, Martin W, Reichard P: Euglena gracilis ribonucleotide reductase: the eukaryote class II enzyme and the possible antiquity of eukaryote B12 dependence. J Biol Chem. 281:5604-11 (2006).

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Atteia A, van Lis R, Gelius-Dietrich G, Adrait A, Garin J, Joyard J, Rolland N, Martin W: Pyruvate formate-lyase and a novel route of eukaryotic ATP synthesis in Chlamydomonas mitochondria. J Biol Chem. 281:9909-18 (2006).

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Martin W, Koonin EV: Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization. Nature. 440:41-5 (2006).

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Embley TM, Martin W: Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges. Nature. 440:623-30 (2006).

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Kilian B, Ozkan H, Kohl J, von Haeseler A, Barale F, Deusch O, Brandolini A, Yucel C, Martin W, Salamini F: Haplotype structure at seven barley genes: relevance to gene pool bottlenecks, phylogeny of ear type and site of barley domestication. Mol Genet Genomics. 276:230-41 (2006).

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Martin W, Koonin EV: A positive definition of prokaryotes. Nature. 442:868 (2006).

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Dagan T, Martin W: The tree of one percent. Genome Biol. 7:118 (2006).

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Theissen U, Martin W: The difference between organelles and endosymbionts. Curr Biol. 16:R1016-7; author reply R1017-8 (2006).

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Hoffmeister M, Piotrowski M, Nowitzki U, Martin W: Mitochondrial trans-2-enoyl-CoA reductase of wax ester fermentation from Euglena gracilis defines a new family of enzymes involved in lipid synthesis. J Biol Chem. 280:4329-38 (2005).

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Martin W: Molecular evolution: lateral gene transfer and other possibilities. Heredity. 94:565-6 (2005).

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Martin W: Crystal ball. Getting a better picture of evolution. Environ Microbiol. 7:479-80 (2005).

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Martin W, Deusch O, Stawski N, Grünheit N, Goremykin V: Chloroplast genome phylogenetics: why we need independent approaches to plant molecular evolution. Trends Plant Sci. 10:203-9 (2005).

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Huang CY, Grünheit N, Ahmadinejad N, Timmis JN, Martin W: Mutational decay and age of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes transferred recently to angiosperm nuclear chromosomes. Plant Physiol. 138:1723-33 (2005).

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Martin W: The missing link between hydrogenosomes and mitochondria. Trends Microbiol. 13:457-9 (2005).

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Koonin EV, Martin W: On the origin of genomes and cells within inorganic compartments. Trends Genet. 21:647-54 (2005).

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Martin W: Archaebacteria (Archaea) and the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus. Curr Opin Microbiol. 8:630-7 (2005).

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Hoffmeister M, van der Klei A, Rotte C, van Grinsven KW, van Hellemond JJ, Henze K, Tielens AG, Martin W: Euglena gracilis rhodoquinone:ubiquinone ratio and mitochondrial proteome differ under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. J Biol Chem. 279:22422-9 (2004).

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Wu M, Sun LV, Vamathevan J, Riegler M, Deboy R, Brownlie JC, McGraw EA, Martin W, Eßer C, Ahmadinejad N, Wiegand C, Madupu R, Beanan MJ, Brinkac LM, Daugherty SC, Durkin AS, Kolonay JF, Nelson WC, Mohamoud Y, Lee P, Berry K, Young MB, Utterback T, Weidman J, Nierman WC, Paulsen IT, Nelson KE, Tettelin H, O'Neill SL, Eisen JA: Phylogenomics of the reproductive parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: a streamlined genome overrun by mobile genetic elements. PLoS Biol. 2:E69 (2004).

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Atteia A, van Lis R, van Hellemond JJ, Tielens AG, Martin W, Henze K: Identification of prokaryotic homologues indicates an endosymbiotic origin for the alternative oxidases of mitochondria (AOX) and chloroplasts (PTOX). Gene. 330:143-8 (2004).

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Eßer C, Ahmadinejad N, Wiegand C, Rotte C, Sebastiani F, Gelius-Dietrich G, Henze K, Kretschmann E, Richly E, Leister D, Bryant D, Steel MA, Lockhart PJ, Penny D, Martin W: A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes. Mol Biol Evol. 21:1643-60 (2004).

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Russell MJ, Martin W: The rocky roots of the acetyl-CoA pathway. Trends Biochem Sci. 29:358-63 (2004).

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Trenkamp S, Martin W, Tietjen K: Specific and differential inhibition of very-long-chain fatty acid elongases from Arabidopsis thaliana by different herbicides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101:11903-8 (2004).

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Martin W, Embley TM: Evolutionary biology: Early evolution comes full circle. Nature. 431:134-7 (2004).

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Nowitzki U, Gelius-Dietrich G, Schwieger M, Henze K, Martin W: Chloroplast phosphoglycerate kinase from Euglena gracilis: endosymbiotic gene replacement going against the tide. Eur J Biochem. 271:4123-31 (2004).

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Martin W: Pathogenic archaebacteria: do they not exist because archaebacteria use different vitamins? Bioessays 26:592-593 (2004).

Graur D, Martin W: Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision Trends Genet. 20:80-86 (2004).

Martin W, Borst P: Secondary loss of chloroplasts in trypanosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100:765-7 (2003).

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Martin W, Russell MJ: On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 358:59-83; discussion 83-5 (2003).

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Theissen U, Hoffmeister M, Grieshaber M, Martin W: Single eubacterial origin of eukaryotic sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase, a mitochondrial enzyme conserved from the early evolution of eukaryotes during anoxic and sulfidic times. Mol Biol Evol. 20:1564-74 (2003).

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Hoffmeister M, Martin W: Interspecific evolution: microbial symbiosis, endosymbiosis and gene transfer. Environ Microbiol. 5:641-9 (2003).

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Martin W, Rotte C, Hoffmeister M, Theissen U, Gelius-Dietrich G, Ahr S, Henze K: Early cell evolution, eukaryotes, anoxia, sulfide, oxygen, fungi first (?) and a tree of genomes revisited IUBMB Life 55:193-204 (2003).

Martin W: Gene transfer from organelles to the nucleus: Frequent and in big chunks Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 100:8612-8614 (2003).

Atteia A, van Lis R, Mendoza-Hernandez G, Henze K, Martin W, Riveros-Rosas H, Gonzalez-Halphen D: Bifunctional aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHE) in chlorophyte algal mitochondria Plant Mol.Biol. 53:175-188 (2003).

Martin W: The smoking gun of gene transfer Nature Genet. 33:442-442 (2003).

Henze K, Martin W: Evolutionary biology: Essence of mitochondria Nature 426:127-128 (2003).

Salamini F, Ozkan H, Brandolini A, Schafer-Pregl R, Martin W: Genetics and geography of wild cereal domestication in the near east. Nat Rev Genet. 3:429-41 (2002).

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Martin W, Rujan T, Richly E, Hansen A, Cornelsen S, Lins T, Leister D, Stoebe B, Hasegawa M, Penny D: Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:12246-51 (2002).

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Itoh T, Martin W, Nei M: Acceleration of genomic evolution caused by enhanced mutation rate in endocellular symbionts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:12944-8 (2002).

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Tielens AG, Rotte C, van Hellemond JJ, Martin W: Mitochondria as we don't know them. Trends Biochem Sci. 27:564-72 (2002).

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El-Rabey HA, Badr A, Schafer-Pregl R, Martin W, Salamini F: Speciation and species separation in Hordeum L. (Poaceae) resolved by discontinuous molecular markers Plant Biol. 4:567-575 (2002).

Schnarrenberger C, Martin W: Evolution of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle of higher plants - A case study of endosymbiotic gene transfer Eur. J. Biochem. 269:868-883 (2002).

Martin W, Hoffmeister M, Rotte C, Henze K: An overview of endosymbiotic models for the origins of eukaryotes, their ATP-producing organelles (mitochondria and hydrogenosomes) and their heterotrophic lifestyle Biol. Chem. 382:1521-1539 (2001).

Henze K, Martin W: How do mitochondrial genes get into the nucleus? Trends Genet. 17:383-387 (2001).

Rujan T, Martin W: How many genes in Arabidopsis come from cyanobacteria? An estimate from 386 protein phylogenies Trends Genet. 17:113-120 (2001).

Rotte C, Stejskal F, Zhu G, Keithly JS, Martin W: Pyruvate : NADP(+) oxidoreductase from the mitochondrion of Euglena gracilis and from the apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum: A biochemical relic linking pyruvate metabolism in mitochondriate and amitochondriate protists Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:710-720 (2001).

Rotte C, Martin W: Does endosymbiosis explain the origin of the nucleus? Nat. Cell Biol. 3:E173-E173 (2001).

Krepinsky K, Plaumann M, Martin W, Schnarrenberger C: Purification and cloning of chloroplast 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from spinach - Cyanobacterial genes for chloroplast and cytosolic isoenzymes encoded in eukaryotic chromosomes Eur. J. Biochem. 268:2678-2686 (2001).

Liaud MF, Lichtle C, Apt K, Martin W, Cerff R: Compartment-specific isoforms of TPI and GAPDH are imported into diatom mitochondria as a fusion protein: evidence in favor of a mitochondrial origin of the eukaryotic glycolytic pathway. Mol Biol Evol. 17:213-23 (2000).

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Adachi J, Waddell PJ, Martin W, Hasegawa M: Plastid genome phylogeny and a model of amino acid substitution for proteins encoded by chloroplast DNA. J Mol Evol. 50:348-58 (2000).

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Dooijes D, Chaves I, Kieft R, Dirks-Mulder A, Martin W, Borst P: Base J originally found in kinetoplastida is also a minor constituent of nuclear DNA of Euglena gracilis Nucleic Acids Res. 28:3017-3021 (2000).

Lange BM, Rujan T, Martin W, Croteau R: Isoprenoid biosynthesis: The evolution of two ancient and distinct pathways across genomes Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97:13172-13177 (2000).

Martin W, Salamini F: A meeting at the gene - Biodiversity and natural history EMBO Rep. 1:208-210 (2000).

Deane JA, Fraunholz M, Su V, Maier UG, Martin W, Durnford DG, McFadden GI: Evidence for nucleomorph to host nucleus gene transfer: Light-harvesting complex proteins from cryptomonads and chlorarachniophytes Protist 151:239-252 (2000).

Martin W: Evolutionary biology - A powerhouse divided Science 287:1219-1219 (2000).

Hansmann S, Martin W: Phylogeny of 33 ribosomal and six other proteins encoded in an ancient gene cluster that is conserved across prokaryotic genomes: influence of excluding poorly alignable sites from analysis Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 50:1655-1663 (2000).

Martin W: Primitive anaerobic protozoa: the wrong host for mitochondria and hydrogenosomes? Microbiology-(UK) 146:1021-1022 (2000).

Rotte C, Henze K, Muller M, Martin W: Origins of hydrogenosomes and mitochondria - Commentary Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 3:481-486 (2000).

Hannaert V, Brinkmann H, Nowitzki U, Lee JA, Albert MA, Sensen CW, Gaasterland T, Muller M, Michels P, Martin W: Enolase from Trypanosoma brucei, from the amitochondriate protist Mastigamoeba balamuthi and from the chloroplast and cytosol of Euglena gracilis: Pieces in the evolutionary puzzle of the eukaryotic glycolytic pathway Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:989-1000 (2000).

Martin W: Mosaic bacterial chromosomes: a challenge en route to a tree of genomes. Bioessays. 21:99-104 (1999).

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Flechner A, Gross W, Martin W, Schnarrenberger C: Chloroplast class I and class II aldolases are bifunctional for fructose-1,6-biphosphate and sedoheptulose-1,7-biphosphate cleavage in the Calvin cycle. FEBS Lett. 447:200-2 (1999).

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Muller M, Martin W: The genome of Rickettsia prowazekii and some thoughts on the origin of mitochondria and hydrogenosomes. Bioessays. 21:377-81 (1999).

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Race HL, Herrmann RG, Martin W: Why have organelles retained genomes? Trends Genet. 15:364-70 (1999).

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Samigullin TK, Martin W, Troitsky AV, Antonov AS: Molecular data from the chloroplast rpoC1 gene suggest a deep and distinct dichotomy of contemporary spermatophytes into two monophyla: gymnosperms (including Gnetales) and angiosperms. J Mol Evol. 49:310-5 (1999).

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Martin W, Kowallik KV: Annotated English translation of Mereschkowsky's 1905 paper 'Uber Natur und Ursprung der Chromatophoren im Pflanzenreiche Eur. J. Phycol. 34:287-295 (1999).

Hansen A, Hansmann S, Samigullin T, Antonov A, Martin W: Gnetum and the angiosperms: Molecular evidence that their shared morphological characters are convergent rather than homologous Mol. Biol. Evol. 16:1006-1009 (1999).

Martin W: A briefly argued case that mitochondria and plastids are descendants of endosymbionts but that the nuclear compartment is not Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. B-Biol. Sci. 266:1387-1395 (1999).

Zuppini A, Barbato R, Bergantino E, Dainese P, Meggio F, Martin W, Mariani P: Ca2+ binding protein calreticulin in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta): Biochemical characterization differential expression during sexual reproduction and phylogenetic analysis J. Phycol. 35:1224-1232 (1999).

Martin W, Stoebe B, Goremykin V, Hapsmann S, Hasegawa M, Kowallik KV: Gene transfer to the nucleus and the evolution of chloroplasts. Nature. 393:162-5 (1998).

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Stoebe B, Martin W, Kowallik KV: Distribution and nomenclature of protein-coding genes in 12 sequenced chloroplast genomes Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 16:243-255 (1998).

Samigullin TH, Valiejo-Roman KM, Troitsky AV, Bobrova VK, Filin VR, Martin W, Antonov AS: Sequences of rDNA internal transcribed spacers from the chloroplast DNA of 26 bryophytes: properties and phylogenetic utility. FEBS Lett. 422:47-51 (1998).

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Martin W, Muller M: The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote. Nature. 392:37-41 (1998).

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Meyer-Gauen G, Herbrand H, Pahnke J, Cerff R, Martin W: Gene structure, expression in Escherichia coli and biochemical properties of the NAD+ -dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Pinus sylvestris chloroplasts. Gene. 209:167-74 (1998).

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Navazio L, Nardi MC, Pancaldi S, Dainese P, Baldan B, Fitchette-Laine AC, Faye L, Meggio F, Martin W, Mariani P: Functional conservation of calreticulin in Euglena gracilis. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 45:307-13 (1998).

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Nowitzki U, Flechner A, Kellermann J, Hasegawa M, Schnarrenberger C, Martin W: Eubacterial origin of nuclear genes for chloroplast and cytosolic glucose-6-phosphate isomerase from spinach: sampling eubacterial gene diversity in eukaryotic chromosomes through symbiosis. Gene. 214:205-13 (1998).

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Martin W, Herrmann RG: Gene transfer from organelles to the nucleus: how much, what happens, and Why? Plant Physiol. 118:9-17 (1998).

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Embley TM, Martin W: A hydrogen-producing mitochondrion. Nature. 396:517-9 (1998).

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Munster T, Pahnke J, Di Rosa A, Kim JT, Martin W, Saedler H, Theissen G: Floral homeotic genes were recruited from homologous MADS-box genes preexisting in the common ancestor of ferns and seed plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 94:2415-20 (1997).

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Plaumann M, Pelzer-Reith B, Martin W, Schnarrenberger C: Multiple recruitment of class-I aldolase to chloroplasts and eubacterial origin of eukaryotic class-II aldolases revealed by cDNAs from Euglena gracilis. Curr Genet. 31:430-8 (1997).

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Martin W, Schnarrenberger C: The evolution of the Calvin cycle from prokaryotic to eukaryotic chromosomes: a case study of functional redundancy in ancient pathways through endosymbiosis. Curr Genet. 32:1-18 (1997).

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Brinkmann H, Martin W: Higher-plant chloroplast and cytosolic 3-phosphoglycerate kinases: A case of endosymbiotic gene replacement Plant Mol.Biol. 30:65-75 (1996).

Goremykin V, Bobrova V, Pahnke J, Troitsky A, Antonov A, Martin W: Noncoding sequences from the slowly evolving chloroplast inverted repeat in addition to rbcL data do not support gnetalean affinities of angiosperms. Mol Biol Evol. 13:383-96 (1996).

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Martin W, Henze K, Kellerman J, Flechner A, Schnarrenberger C: Microsequencing and cDNA cloning of the Calvin cycle/OPPP enzyme ribose-5-phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.6) from spinach chloroplasts. Plant Mol Biol. 30:795-805 (1996).

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Bohlmann J, Lins T, Martin W, Eilert U: Anthranilate synthase from Ruta graveolens. Duplicated AS alpha genes encode tryptophan-sensitive and tryptophan-insensitive isoenzymes specific to amino acid and alkaloid biosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 111:507-14 (1996).

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Tholl D, Ober D, Martin W, Kellermann J, Hartmann T: Purification, molecular cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of homospermidine synthase from Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Eur J Biochem. 240:373-9 (1996).

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Bohle UR, Hilger HH, Martin W: Island colonization and evolution of the insular woody habit in Echium L. (Boraginaceae). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 93:11740-5 (1996).

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Flechner A, Dressen U, Westhoff P, Henze K, Schnarrenberger C, Martin W: Molecular characterization of transketolase (EC 2.2.1.1) active in the Calvin cycle of spinach chloroplasts. Plant Mol Biol. 32:475-84 (1996).

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Martin W, Mustafa AZ, Henze K, Schnarrenberger C: Higher-plant chloroplast and cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase isoenzymes: origins via duplication rather than prokaryote-eukaryote divergence. Plant Mol Biol. 32:485-91 (1996).

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Baalmann E, Scheibe R, Cerff R, Martin W: Functional studies of chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunits A and B expressed in Escherichia coli: formation of highly active A4 and B4 homotetramers and evidence that aggregation of the B4 complex is mediated by the B subunit carboxy terminus. Plant Mol Biol. 32:505-13 (1996).

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Nowitzki U, Wyrich R, Westhoff P, Henze K, Schnarrenberger C, Martin W: Cloning of the amphibolic Calvin cycle OPPP enzyme D-ribulose-5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1) from spinach chloroplasts: Functional and evolutionary aspects Plant Mol.Biol. 29:1279-1291 (1995).

Henze K, Badr A, Wettern M, Cerff R, Martin W: A nuclear gene of eubacterial origin in Euglena gracilis reflects cryptic endosymbioses during protist evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 92:9122-6 (1995).

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BOHLMANN J, DELUCA V, EILERT U, MARTIN W: PURIFICATION AND CDNA CLONING OF ANTHRANILATE SYNTHASE FROM RUTA-GRAVEOLENS - MODES OF EXPRESSION AND PROPERTIES OF NATIVE AND RECOMBINANT ENZYMES Plant J. 7:491-501 (1995).

DONATH M, MENDEL R, CERFF R, MARTIN W: INTRON-DEPENDENT TRANSIENT EXPRESSION OF THE MAIZE GAPA1 GENE Plant Mol.Biol. 28:667-676 (1995).

SCHNARRENBERGER C, FLECHNER A, MARTIN W: ENZYMATIC EVIDENCE FOR A COMPLETE OXIDATIVE PENTOSE-PHOSPHATE PATHWAY IN CHLOROPLASTS AND AN INCOMPLETE PATHWAY IN THE CYTOSOL OF SPINACH LEAVES Plant Physiol. 108:609-614 (1995).

Meyer-Gauen G, Schnarrenberger C, Cerff R, Martin W: Molecular characterization of a novel, nuclear-encoded, NAD(+)-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in plastids of the gymnosperm Pinus sylvestris L. Plant Mol Biol. 26:1155-66 (1994).

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Henze K, Schnarrenberger C, Kellermann J, Martin W: Chloroplast and cytosolic triosephosphate isomerases from spinach: purification, microsequencing and cDNA cloning of the chloroplast enzyme. Plant Mol Biol. 26:1961-73 (1994).

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Bohle UR, Hilger H, Cerff R, Martin W: Non-coding chloroplast DNA for plant molecular systematics at the infrageneric level. EXS. 69:391-403 (1994).

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Liaud MF, Valentin C, Martin W, Bouget FY, Kloareg B, Cerff R: The evolutionary origin of red algae as deduced from the nuclear genes encoding cytosolic and chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases from Chondrus crispus. J Mol Evol. 38:319-27 (1994).

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Jansson S, Meyer-Gauen G, Cerff R, Martin W: Nucleotide distribution in gymnosperm nuclear sequences suggests a model for GC-content change in land-plant nuclear genomes. J Mol Evol. 39:34-46 (1994).

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Kersanach R, Brinkmann H, Liaud MF, Zhang DX, Martin W, Cerff R: Five identical intron positions in ancient duplicated genes of eubacterial origin. Nature. 367:387-9 (1994).

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Hofmann CJ, Rensing SA, Hauber MM, Martin W, Muller SB, Couch J, McFadden GI, Igloi GL, Maier UG: The smallest known eukaryotic genomes encode a protein gene: towards an understanding of nucleomorph functions. Mol Gen Genet. 243:600-4 (1994).

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CERFF R, MARTIN W, BRINKMANN H: ORIGIN OF INTRONS - EARLY OR LATE - REPLY Nature 369:527-528 (1994).

BADR A, MARTIN W, JENSEN U: CHLOROPLAST DNA RESTRICTION SITE POLYMORPHISM IN GENISTEAE (LEGUMINOSAE) SUGGESTS A COMMON ORIGIN FOR EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LUPINES Plant Syst. Evol. 193:95-106 (1994).

Kolukisaoglu HU, Braun B, Martin W, Schneider-Poetsch HA: Mosses do express conventional, distantly B-type-related phytochromes. Phytochrome of Physcomitrella patens (Hedw.). FEBS Lett. 334:95-100 (1993).

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Barakate A, Martin W, Quigley F, Mache R: Characterization of a multigene family encoding an exopolygalacturonase in maize. J Mol Biol. 229:797-801 (1993).

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MARTIN W, NOCK S, MEYERGAUEN G, HAGER KP, JENSEN U, CERFF R: A METHOD FOR ISOLATION OF CDNA-QUALITY MESSENGER-RNA FROM IMMATURE SEEDS OF A GYMNOSPERM RICH IN POLYPHENOLICS Plant Mol.Biol. 22:555-556 (1993).

MARTIN W, JOUANNIC S, GOER SL: MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE ATPB AND ATPE GENES OF THE BROWN ALGA PYLAIELLA-LITTORALIS Eur. J. Phycol. 28:111-113 (1993).

SOMERVILLE CC, JOUANNIC S, MARTIN W, KLOAREG B, LOISEAUXDEGOER S: SECONDARY STRUCTURE AND PHYLOGENY OF THE CHLOROPLAST 23S RIBOSOMAL-RNA GENE FROM THE BROWN ALGA PYLAIELLA-LITTORALIS Plant Mol.Biol. 21:779-787 (1993).

Assali NE, Martin W, Sommerville CC, Loiseaux-de Goer S: Evolution of the Rubisco operon from prokaryotes to algae: structure and analysis of the rbcS gene of the brown alga Pylaiella littoralis. Plant Mol Biol. 17:853-63 (1991).

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PISABARRO AG, MARTIN W, PETERSON PA, SAEDLER H, GIERL A: MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF THE UBIQUITOUS (UQ) TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENT SYSTEM OF ZEA-MAYS Mol. Gen. Genet. 230:201-208 (1991).

Martin W, Lagrange T, Li YF, Bisanz-Seyer C, Mache R: Hypothesis for the evolutionary origin of the chloroplast ribosomal protein L21 of spinach. Curr Genet. 18:553-6 (1990).

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Menssen A, Hohmann S, Martin W, Schnable PS, Peterson PA, Saedler H, Gierl A: The En/Spm transposable element of Zea mays contains splice sites at the termini generating a novel intron from a dSpm element in the A2 gene. EMBO J. 9:3051-7 (1990).

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Martinez P, Martin W, Cerff R: Structure, evolution and anaerobic regulation of a nuclear gene encoding cytosolic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from maize. J Mol Biol. 208:551-65 (1989).

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MARTIN W, GIERL A, SAEDLER H: ANGIOSPERM ORIGINS - REPLY Nature 342:132-132 (1989).

MARTIN W, GIERL A, SAEDLER H: MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR PRE-CRETACEOUS ANGIOSPERM ORIGINS Nature 339:46-48 (1989).