List of works - Matthew W. Brown

"Slime molds" among the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa): molecular systematics and taxonomy of Copromyxa

scientific article

A Non-Flagellated Member of the Myxogastria and Expansion of the Echinosteliida

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

A SUF Fe-S cluster biogenesis system in the mitochondrion-related organelles of the anaerobic protist Pygsuia

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata).

scientific article

A genetic toolbox for marine protists

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

A morphologically simple species of Acrasis (Heterolobosea, Excavata), Acrasis helenhemmesae n. sp.

scientific article

A revision of the order Pellitida Smirnov et al., 2011 (Amoebozoa, Discosea) based on ultrastructural and molecular evidence, with description of Endostelium crystalliferum n. sp.

scientific article published on 28 February 2014

AdcAII of Streptococcus pneumoniae Affects Pneumococcal Invasiveness ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Aggregative multicellularity evolved independently in the eukaryotic supergroup Rhizaria

scientific article

Amoeba at attention: phylogenetic affinity of Sappinia pedata

scientific article

Amoeba stages in the deepest branching heteroloboseans, including Pharyngomonas: evolutionary and systematic implications

scientific article published on 28 September 2012

Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

scientific article published on 23 July 2024

Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

preprint published on 12 November 2023

An Enigmatic Stramenopile Sheds Light on Early Evolution in Ochrophyta Plastid Organellogenesis

scientific article published on 11 April 2022

An efficient single-cell transcriptomics workflow for microbial eukaryotes benchmarked on Giardia intestinalis cells

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Ancient Adaptive Lateral Gene Transfers in the Symbiotic Opalina-Blastocystis Stramenopile Lineage

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae.

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.

scientific article

Comparative genomic analysis of the 'pseudofungus' Hyphochytrium catenoides.

scientific article published in January 2018

Comparative genomics supports sex and meiosis in diverse Amoebozoan

scientific article published in 2018

Complex evolution of two types of cardiolipin synthase in the eukaryotic lineage stramenopiles

scientific article

Complex patterns of gene fission in the eukaryotic folate biosynthesis pathway

scientific article

Coprophilic amoebae and flagellates, including Guttulinopsis, Rosculus and Helkesimastix, characterise a divergent and diverse rhizarian radiation and contribute to a large diversity of faecal-associated protists.

scientific article

Description of Armaparvus languidus n. gen. n. sp. Confirms Ultrastructural Unity of Cutosea (Amoebozoa, Evosea)

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Earliest Holozoan expansion of phosphotyrosine signaling

scientific article published on 3 December 2013

Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts

scientific article

EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA phylogeny of protosteloid slime molds and its significance for the amoebozoan supergroup

scientific article

Evolution of bacterial recombinase A (recA) in eukaryotes explained by addition of genomic data of key microbial lineages.

scientific article published in October 2016

Expansion of the molecular and morphological diversity of Acanthamoebidae (Centramoebida, Amoebozoa) and identification of a novel life cycle type within the group.

scientific article

First multigene analysis of Archamoebae (Amoebozoa: Conosa) robustly reveals its phylogeny and shows that Entamoebidae represents a deep lineage of the group

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Gene content evolution in Discobid mitochondria deduced from the phylogenetic position and complete mitochondrial genome of Tsukubamonas globosa.

scientific article published on February 2014

Isolation of <i>Naegleria lustrarea</i> n. sp. (Excavata, Discoba, Heterolobosea) from the feces of <i>Ambystoma annulatum</i> (Ringed Salamander) in Northwest Arkansas

scientific article published on 9 May 2024

Living in the cracks: Two novel genera of Variosea (Amoebozoa) discovered on an urban sidewalk

scientific article published on 19 January 2024

Multicellularity: Amoebae follow the leader to food

scientific article published in May 2022

Novel Doublesex Duplication Associated with Sexually Dimorphic Development of Dogface Butterfly Wings

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Nucleomorph and plastid genome sequences of the chlorarachniophyte Lotharella oceanica: convergent reductive evolution and frequent recombination in nucleomorph-bearing algae

scientific article

On the age of eukaryotes: evaluating evidence from fossils and molecular clocks

scientific article

Osmoadaptative Strategy and Its Molecular Signature in Obligately Halophilic Heterotrophic Protists

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Parallel re-modeling of EF-1α function: divergent EF-1α genes co-occur with EFL genes in diverse distantly related eukaryotes

scientific article

PhyloFisher: A phylogenomic package for resolving eukaryotic relationships ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 August 2021

Phylogenetic placement of the protosteloid amoeba Microglomus paxillus identifies another case of sporocarpic fruiting in Discosea (Amoebozoa)

scientific article published on 7 March 2023

Phylogenetic reconstruction and evolution of the Rab GTPase gene family in Amoebozoa

scientific article published on 29 March 2021

Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group

scientific article published on 19 January 2018

Phylogenomics and Morphological Reconstruction of Arcellinida Testate Amoebae Highlight Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Neoproterozoic

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads

scientific article published in 2013

Phylogenomics places orphan protistan lineages in a novel eukaryotic super-group

Phylogeny and Classification of Novel Diversity in Sainouroidea (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) Sheds Light on a Highly Diverse and Divergent Clade

scholarly article by Gabriel A Schuler et al published December 2018 in Protist

Phylogeny of the “Forgotten” Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta

scientific article published in 2009

Ptolemeba n. gen., a novel genus of hartmannellid amoebae (Tubulinea, Amoebozoa); with an emphasis on the taxonomy of Saccamoeba

scientific article published on 4 August 2014

Releasing uncurated datasets is essential for reproducible phylogenomics

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

scholarly article by Stefan Geisen et al published August 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Sorodiplophrys stercorea: Another Novel Lineage of Sorocarpic Multicellularity

scientific article

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

scientific article

The Earliest Stages of Mitochondrial Adaptation to Low Oxygen Revealed in a Novel Rhizarian.

scientific article

The Non-dictyostelid Sorocarpic Amoebae

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

taxonomic paper

The integrin-mediated adhesive complex in the ancestor of animals, fungi, and amoebae

scientific article published in July 2021

The integrin-mediated adhesome complex, essential to multicellularity, is present in the most recent common ancestor of animals, fungi, and amoebae

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

List of works by Matthew W. Brown

"Slime molds" among the Tubulinea (Amoebozoa): molecular systematics and taxonomy of Copromyxa

A Non-Flagellated Member of the Myxogastria and Expansion of the Echinosteliida

A SUF Fe-S cluster biogenesis system in the mitochondrion-related organelles of the anaerobic protist Pygsuia

A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata).

A genetic toolbox for marine protists

A morphologically simple species of Acrasis (Heterolobosea, Excavata), Acrasis helenhemmesae n. sp.

A revision of the order Pellitida Smirnov et al., 2011 (Amoebozoa, Discosea) based on ultrastructural and molecular evidence, with description of Endostelium crystalliferum n. sp.

AdcAII of Streptococcus pneumoniae Affects Pneumococcal Invasiveness ⬇️

Aggregative multicellularity evolved independently in the eukaryotic supergroup Rhizaria

Amoeba at attention: phylogenetic affinity of Sappinia pedata

Amoeba stages in the deepest branching heteroloboseans, including Pharyngomonas: evolutionary and systematic implications

Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

Amoebozoan testate amoebae illuminate the diversity of heterotrophs and the complexity of ecosystems throughout geological time

An Enigmatic Stramenopile Sheds Light on Early Evolution in Ochrophyta Plastid Organellogenesis

An efficient single-cell transcriptomics workflow for microbial eukaryotes benchmarked on Giardia intestinalis cells

Ancient Adaptive Lateral Gene Transfers in the Symbiotic Opalina-Blastocystis Stramenopile Lineage

Between a Pod and a Hard Test: The Deep Evolution of Amoebae.

Combined morphological and phylogenomic re-examination of malawimonads, a critical taxon for inferring the evolutionary history of eukaryotes.

Comparative genomic analysis of the 'pseudofungus' Hyphochytrium catenoides.

Comparative genomics supports sex and meiosis in diverse Amoebozoan

Complex evolution of two types of cardiolipin synthase in the eukaryotic lineage stramenopiles

Complex patterns of gene fission in the eukaryotic folate biosynthesis pathway

Coprophilic amoebae and flagellates, including Guttulinopsis, Rosculus and Helkesimastix, characterise a divergent and diverse rhizarian radiation and contribute to a large diversity of faecal-associated protists.

Description of Armaparvus languidus n. gen. n. sp. Confirms Ultrastructural Unity of Cutosea (Amoebozoa, Evosea)

Earliest Holozoan expansion of phosphotyrosine signaling

Environmental Breviatea harbour mutualistic Arcobacter epibionts

EukRef: Phylogenetic curation of ribosomal RNA to enhance understanding of eukaryotic diversity and distribution

Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA phylogeny of protosteloid slime molds and its significance for the amoebozoan supergroup

Evolution of bacterial recombinase A (recA) in eukaryotes explained by addition of genomic data of key microbial lineages.

Expansion of the molecular and morphological diversity of Acanthamoebidae (Centramoebida, Amoebozoa) and identification of a novel life cycle type within the group.

First multigene analysis of Archamoebae (Amoebozoa: Conosa) robustly reveals its phylogeny and shows that Entamoebidae represents a deep lineage of the group

Gene content evolution in Discobid mitochondria deduced from the phylogenetic position and complete mitochondrial genome of Tsukubamonas globosa.

Isolation of <i>Naegleria lustrarea</i> n. sp. (Excavata, Discoba, Heterolobosea) from the feces of <i>Ambystoma annulatum</i> (Ringed Salamander) in Northwest Arkansas

Living in the cracks: Two novel genera of Variosea (Amoebozoa) discovered on an urban sidewalk

Multicellularity: Amoebae follow the leader to food

Novel Doublesex Duplication Associated with Sexually Dimorphic Development of Dogface Butterfly Wings

Nucleomorph and plastid genome sequences of the chlorarachniophyte Lotharella oceanica: convergent reductive evolution and frequent recombination in nucleomorph-bearing algae

On the age of eukaryotes: evaluating evidence from fossils and molecular clocks

Osmoadaptative Strategy and Its Molecular Signature in Obligately Halophilic Heterotrophic Protists

Parallel re-modeling of EF-1α function: divergent EF-1α genes co-occur with EFL genes in diverse distantly related eukaryotes

PhyloFisher: A phylogenomic package for resolving eukaryotic relationships ⬇️

Phylogenetic placement of the protosteloid amoeba Microglomus paxillus identifies another case of sporocarpic fruiting in Discosea (Amoebozoa)

Phylogenetic reconstruction and evolution of the Rab GTPase gene family in Amoebozoa

Phylogenomics Places Orphan Protistan Lineages in a Novel Eukaryotic Super-Group

Phylogenomics and Morphological Reconstruction of Arcellinida Testate Amoebae Highlight Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Neoproterozoic

Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads

Phylogenomics places orphan protistan lineages in a novel eukaryotic super-group

Phylogeny and Classification of Novel Diversity in Sainouroidea (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) Sheds Light on a Highly Diverse and Divergent Clade

Phylogeny of the “Forgotten” Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta

Ptolemeba n. gen., a novel genus of hartmannellid amoebae (Tubulinea, Amoebozoa); with an emphasis on the taxonomy of Saccamoeba

Releasing uncurated datasets is essential for reproducible phylogenomics

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes ⬇️

Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

Sorodiplophrys stercorea: Another Novel Lineage of Sorocarpic Multicellularity

The Capsaspora genome reveals a complex unicellular prehistory of animals

The Earliest Stages of Mitochondrial Adaptation to Low Oxygen Revealed in a Novel Rhizarian.

The Non-dictyostelid Sorocarpic Amoebae

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

The integrin-mediated adhesive complex in the ancestor of animals, fungi, and amoebae

The integrin-mediated adhesome complex, essential to multicellularity, is present in the most recent common ancestor of animals, fungi, and amoebae

Timing the Origins of Multicellular Eukaryotes Through Phylogenomics and Relaxed Molecular Clock Analyses