Christian Woehle

TL;DR: The gene distribution across lineages reflects the presence of anaerobic energy metabolism in the eukaryote common ancestor and differential loss during the specialization of some lineages to oxic niches, just as oxphos capabilities have been differentially lost in specialization to anoxic niches and the parasitic life-style.

TL;DR: It is suggested that ribosomal assembly imposes functional constraints that govern the retention of ribosomic protein coding genes in organelles, subordinate to redox regulation for electron transport chain components, which anchor the ribosome to the organelle genome in the first place.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic affinities of a stringent filtered set of 3,151 expressed sequence tag-contigs are investigated by generating clusters with eukaryotic homologs and constructing phylogenetic trees and networks and supports a common but not necessarily single origin for the plastid in heterokonts and alveolates.

TL;DR: Deep sequenced the transcriptomes of the protozoan during two environmental stimuli of the early infection process: exposure to oxygen and contact with vaginal epithelial cells, uncover gene family expression regulation in this parasite and give evidence for a concentrated response to the individual stimuli.

TL;DR: Large-scale genome and transcriptomes analyses reveal the presence of a denitrification pathway in foraminifera species of the genus Globobulimina as well as a wide range of nitrite/nitrate transporters, including the enzymes nitrite reductase and nitric oxide reductases.