Oliver Deusch

TL;DR: The genome-wide frequency of gene acquisitions from cyanobacteria in 4 photosynthetic eukaryotes is reported, consistent with suggestions that fixed nitrogen supplied by the endosymbiont might have played an important role during the origin of plastids.

TL;DR: Haplotypes at nuclear and chloroplast loci for approximately 70 Aegilops and Triticum lines reveal both B and G genomes of polyploid wheats as unique samples of A. speltoides haplotype diversity.

TL;DR: The comparison of the Chlamydomonas proteins to their identifiable homologs predicted from 354 sequenced genomes indicated that Arabidopsis is the most closely related nonalgal eukaryote, and the mitochondrial proteome of the photosynthetic alga reveals important lineage-specific differences with other mitochondrial proteomes, reflecting the high metabolic diversity of the organelle.

TL;DR: This work sequenced expressed mRNAs from actively photosynthesizing, starved individuals of two photosynthetic sea slug species, Plakobranchus ocellatus Van Hasselt, 1824 and Elysia timida Risso, 1818, and finds that nuclear-encoded, algal-derived genes specific to Photosynthetic function are expressed neither in P. o cellatus nor in E. timida.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic networks data uncover distinct wild and domesticated barley genotypes and suggest that barley may have been domesticated in the Jordan valley.