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Christian Esser
Researcher at University of Düsseldorf
Publications - 8
Citations - 1388
Christian Esser is an academic researcher from University of Düsseldorf. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Gene. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 8 publications receiving 1314 citations.
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Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements
Martin Wu,Ling V. Sun,Jessica Vamathevan,Markus Riegler,Robert T. DeBoy,Jeremy C. Brownlie,Elizabeth A. McGraw,William Martin,Christian Esser,Nahal Ahmadinejad,Christian Wiegand,Ramana Madupu,Maureen J. Beanan,Lauren M. Brinkac,Sean C. Daugherty,A. Scott Durkin,James F. Kolonay,William C. Nelson,Yasmin Ali Mohamoud,Perris Lee,Kristi Berry,M. Brook Young,Teresa Utterback,Janice Weidman,William C. Nierman,Ian T. Paulsen,Karen E. Nelson,Hervé Tettelin,Scott Leslie O'Neill,Scott Leslie O'Neill,Jonathan A. Eisen +30 more
TL;DR: Genetic analysis of the wMel genome further supports the hypothesis that mitochondria share a common ancestor with the α-Proteobacteria, but shows little support for the grouping of mitochondria with species in the order Rickettsiales.
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A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.
Christian Esser,Nahal Ahmadinejad,Christian Wiegand,Carmen Rotte,Federico Sebastiani,Gabriel Gelius-Dietrich,Katrin Henze,Ernst Kretschmann,Erik Richly,Dario Leister,David Bryant,Mike Steel,Peter J. Lockhart,David Penny,William Martin +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, pairwise amino acid sequence identity was examined in comparison of 6,214 nuclear protein-coding genes from Saccharomyces cerevisiae to 177,117 proteins encoded in sequenced genomes from 45 eubacteria and 15 archaebacteria.
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The origin of mitochondria in light of a fluid prokaryotic chromosome model
TL;DR: It is found that each α-proteobacterium harbours a particular collection of genes and that, depending upon the lineage examined, between 97 and 33% are α- Proteobacterial by the nearest-neighbour criterion.
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Cutoffs and k-mers: implications from a transcriptome study in allopolyploid plants
Nicole Gruenheit,Oliver Deusch,Christian Esser,Matthias Becker,Claudia Voelckel,Peter J. Lockhart +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic analysis of 19 different coverage cutoffs and 20 different k-mer sizes showed that none of the genes could be assembled across all of the parameter space and these parameter values could be explained in part by different gene expression levels and different degrees of similarity between genes.
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Plant and Animal Glycolate Oxidases Have a Common Eukaryotic Ancestor and Convergently Duplicated to Evolve Long-Chain 2-Hydroxy Acid Oxidases
TL;DR: The biological role of plantae (L)-2-HAOX in photorespiration evolved by co-opting an existing peroxisomal protein, which is the result of convergent evolution in the two most complex eukaryotic lineages.