Thomas Mock

TL;DR: Comparative analyses with photosynthetic diatoms and heterotrophic algae with parasitic lifestyle revealed that a combination of gene loss, the accumulation of genes involved in organic carbon degradation, a unique secretome, and the rapid divergence of conserved gene families involved in cell wall and extracellular metabolism appear to have facilitated the lifestyle of a free-living secondary heterotroph.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrative approach using multiple methods to verify cytosine methylation in the chloroplast DNA of the multicellular brown alga Saccharina japonica was applied.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the mechanisms diatoms use to sense rapid changes in temperature, such as those experienced in the intertidal zone, and found that cold shock induces a Ca2+-dependent K+ efflux and reduces mortality of P. tricornutum during a simultaneous hypo-osmotic shock.

TL;DR: A novel haplotype-specific assembly method is applied to reconstruct the F. cylindrus genome, producing 10 fully assembled chromosomes capped by telomeres, and a putative chromosome with a single breakpoint, making it suitable for complex genomes of non-model organisms, including those with unknown karyotype.