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William Martin
Researcher at University of Düsseldorf
Publications - 356
Citations - 37929
William Martin is an academic researcher from University of Düsseldorf. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Genome. The author has an hindex of 90, co-authored 348 publications receiving 34353 citations. Previous affiliations of William Martin include Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Free University of Berlin.
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Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer: Organelle Genomes Forge Eukaryotic Chromosomes
TL;DR: Genome sequences reveal that a deluge of DNA from organelle DNA has constantly been bombarding the nucleus since the origin of organelles, abolished organelle autonomy and increased nuclear complexity.
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Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life
TL;DR: Hydrothermal vents unite microbiology and geology to breathe new life into research into one of biology's most important questions — what is the origin of life?
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The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote
William Martin,Miklós Müller +1 more
TL;DR: A new hypothesis for the origin of eukaryotic cells is proposed, based on the comparative biochemistry of energy metabolism, to have arisen through symbiotic association of an anaerobic, strictly hydrogen-dependent, strictly autotrophic archaebacterium with a eubacterium.
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Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus.
William Martin,Tamas Rujan,Erik Richly,Andrea Hansen,Sabine Cornelsen,Thomas Lins,Dario Leister,Bettina Stoebe,Masami Hasegawa,David Penny +9 more
TL;DR: A phylogeny of chloroplast genomes inferred from 41 proteins and 8,303 amino acids sites indicates that at least two independent secondary endosymbiotic events have occurred involving red algae and that amino acid composition bias in chloropleft proteins strongly affects plastid genome phylogeny.
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The energetics of genome complexity
Nick Lane,William Martin +1 more
TL;DR: The endosymbiosis that gave rise to mitochondria restructured the distribution of DNA in relation to bioenergetic membranes, permitting a remarkable 200,000-fold expansion in the number of genes expressed.