List of works by W. Ford Doolittle

3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase of Sulfolobus solfataricus: DNA sequence, phylogeny, expression in Escherichia coli of the hmgA gene, and purification and kinetic characterization of the gene product

scientific article published on June 1997

5 S ribosomal RNA genes and the AluI family: Evolutionary and functional significance of a region of strong homology ⬇️

scientific article published on April 20, 1981

5S rRNA sequences from four marine invertebrates and implications for base pairing models of metazoan sequences ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 11 August 1983)

A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus.

scientific article published on 15 June 2007

A paradigm gets shifty.

scientific article published in March 1998

A possible mitochondrial gene in the early-branching amitochondriate protist Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article published on December 1996

ACID: annotation of cassette and integron data

scientific article

AQUI: a more easily purified isoschizomer of AVAI

scientific article published on 01 December 1980

Actinorhodopsins: proteorhodopsin-like gene sequences found predominantly in non-marine environments

scientific article published on 24 January 2008

Active self-splicing group I introns in 23S rRNA genes of hyperthermophilic bacteria, derived from introns in eukaryotic organelles

scientific article

Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family

scientific article published in December 1996

An Updated and Comprehensive rRNA Phylogeny of (Crown) Eukaryotes Based on Rate-Calibrated Evolutionary Distances

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Ancient lateral gene transfer in the evolution of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.

scientific article

Archaea and the Origin(s) of DNA Replication Proteins ⬇️

scientific article published on June 27, 1997

Archaea and the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition

scientific article

Bacterial evolution.

scientific article published on April 1988

Class I release factors in ciliates with variant genetic codes

scientific article

Comparative sequence analysis as an approach to evaluating structure, function, and evolution of 5S and 5.8S ribosomal RNAs

scientific article published on 01 April 1982

Comparison of Bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability.

scientific article published in February 2003

Complete nucleotide sequence of the 23S rRNA gene of the Cyanobacterium,Anacystis nidulans ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 1984

Complex histories of genes encoding 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoenzymeA reductase

scientific article

Computing prokaryotic gene ubiquity: rescuing the core from extinction

scientific article

Concerted evolution in protists: recent homogenization of a polyubiquitin gene in Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article published in November 1995

Construction of composite transposons for halophilic Archaea.

scientific article published in November 1994

Control of gene expression in blue-green algae

scientific article published on February 20, 1975

Coral-mucus-associated Vibrio integrons in the Great Barrier Reef: genomic hotspots for environmental adaptation

scientific article

Covalently closed circular DNAs in closely related unicellular cyanobacteria ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1979

Cyanobacterial evolution: results of 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequence analyses ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1979

Cyanobacterial plasmids: their widespread occurrence, and the existence of regions of homology between plasmids in the same and different species

scientific article published in April 1980

Detailed physical map and set of overlapping clones covering the genome of the archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii DS2

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Differences between tissue-associated intestinal microfloras of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

scientific article

Diversity of bacteriorhodopsins in different hypersaline waters from a single Spanish saltern

scientific article published in November 2003

Do orthologous gene phylogenies really support tree-thinking?

scientific article

Environmental genomics of "Haloquadratum walsbyi" in a saltern crystallizer indicates a large pool of accessory genes in an otherwise coherent species

scientific article

Eradicating typological thinking in prokaryotic systematics and evolution

scientific article published on 10 August 2009

Evidence for existence of "mesotogas," members of the order Thermotogales adapted to low-temperature environments

scientific article published on July 2006

Evidence for the Heterolobosea from phylogenetic analysis of genes encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase

scientific article

Evidence for the early divergence of tryptophanyl- and tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Evidence of independent gene duplications during the evolution of archaeal and eukaryotic family B DNA polymerases

scientific article published in September 1998

Evolution: Reducible Complexity — The Case for Bacterial Flagella

scientific article (publication date: July 2007)

Evolutionary analysis of the hisCGABdFDEHI gene cluster from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2

scientific article published on July 1997

Evolutionary plasticity of methionine biosynthesis

scientific article published in August 2005

Evolutionary relationship between dinoflagellates bearing obligate diatom endosymbionts: insight into tertiary endosymbiosis

scientific article published in November 2000

Evolutionary relationships of bacterial and archaeal glutamine synthetase genes

scientific article (publication date: June 1994)

Frequent recombination in a saltern population of Halorubrum

scientific article

Fun with genealogy

scientific article (publication date: 25 November 1997)

Gene content and organization of a 281-kbp contig from the genome of the extremely thermophilic archaeon, Sulfolobus solfataricus P2.

scientific article published in February 2000

Gene descent, duplication, and horizontal transfer in the evolution of glutamyl- and glutaminyl-tRNA synthetases

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Genes Are Things You Have Whether You Want Them or Not ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

Genes for tRNAIleand tRNAAlain the spacer between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes of a blue-green alga: strong homology to chloroplast tRNA genes and tRNA genes of theE. coli rmDgene cluster ⬇️

scientific article published on January 11, 1983

Genes for tryptophan biosynthesis in the halophilic archaebacterium Haloferax volcanii: the trpDFEG cluster ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Genome sequence of the mesophilic Thermotogales bacterium Mesotoga prima MesG1.Ag.4.2 reveals the largest Thermotogales genome to date

scientific article published in 2012

Genomics and the bacterial species problem

scientific article published on January 2006

Getting clear about the F-word in genomics

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1982

Have archaeal genes contributed to bacterial virulence?

scientific article published on May 2004

Horizontal persistence and the complexity hypothesis

scientific article published in 2019

How microbes "jeopardize" the modern synthesis.

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Hypothermia and cold water near drowning: treatment guidelines

scientific article published on 01 November 1982

Integron gene cassettes and degradation of compounds associated with industrial waste: the case of the Sydney tar ponds

scientific article

Integron-associated gene cassettes in Halifax Harbour: assessment of a mobile gene pool in marine sediments.

scientific article published on 7 January 2008

Intertwined evolutionary histories of marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus

scientific article

Intragenomic heterogeneity and intergenomic recombination among haloarchaeal rRNA genes.

scientific article

Kosmotoga olearia gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph isolated from an oil production fluid

scientific article

Lateral Gene Transfer and the Origins of Prokaryotic Groups

scientific article

Lateral gene transfer and phylogenetic assignment of environmental fosmid clones

scientific article

Lateral gene transfer.

scientific article

Lessons from the Aeropyrum pernix genome

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Leucine biosynthesis in the blue-green bacterium Anacystis nidulans ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1975

Linked genes for calmodulin and E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article published in November 1996

Localizing genes on the map of the genome of Haloferax volcanii, one of the Archaea ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Mesotoga prima gen. nov., sp. nov., the first described mesophilic species of the Thermotogales.

scientific article

Microbial rhodopsins: functional versatility and genetic mobility

scientific article

Microsporidia are related to Fungi: evidence from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II and other proteins

scientific article

Modes of genome evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on December 25, 1980

Molecular evolution: recent cases of spliceosomal intron gain?

scientific article

Nucleotide sequences of wheat-embryo cytosol 5-S and 5.8-S ribosomal ribonucleic acids.

scientific article published in December 1980

On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermotogales

scientific article

On the origin of prokaryotic species.

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On the prokaryotic nature of red algal chloroplasts ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1975

Origin and evolution of eukaryotic chaperonins: phylogenetic evidence for ancient duplications in CCT genes

scientific article

Origin and evolution of the slime molds (Mycetozoa)

scientific article

Origins and evolution of isoprenoid lipid biosynthesis in archaea

scientific article published in April 2004

P elements in Drosophila: selection at many levels

scientific article

Partial sequences of 16S rRNA and the phylogeny of blue-green algae and chloroplasts

scientific article published on June 24, 1976

Pattern pluralism and the Tree of Life hypothesis

scientific article

Phage evolution: new worlds of genomic diversity

scientific article

Phage-host relationships in certain strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

scientific article

Phycocyanin synthesis and degradation in the blue-green bacterium Anacystis nidulans ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1977

Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: quantification of horizontal gene transfer events

scientific article

Phylogenetic analysis of the TATA box binding protein (TBP) gene from Nosema locustae: evidence for a microsporidia-fungi relationship and spliceosomal intron loss

scientific article published in October 1999

Phylogenetic reconstruction and lateral gene transfer.

scientific article published in September 2004

Postmaturational Cleavage of 23 s Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid and Its Metabolic Control in the Blue-Green Alga Anacystis nidulans ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1973

Progress in developing the genetics of the halobacteria

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Recombination in Thermotoga: implications for species concepts and biogeography

scientific article published on December 2005

Recovery and evolutionary analysis of complete integron gene cassette arrays from Vibrio

scientific article

Response

Rethinking the Origin of Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Ribosomal RNA homologies and the evolution of the filamentous blue-green bacteria

scientific article published on February 21, 1978

Searching for mesophilic Thermotogales bacteria: "mesotogas" in the wild.

scientific article

Searching for species in haloarchaea

scientific article

Selfish DNAs with self-restraint

scientific article published in Nature

Selfish genes, the phenotype paradigm and genome evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on April 17, 1980

Sequence of 5S ribosomal RNA gene regions and their products in the archaebacterium Halobacterium volcanii

scientific article published in January 1985

Sol's world, the RNA world, our world ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Something new under the sea

scientific article published in Nature

Suppressive subtractive hybridization detects extensive genomic diversity in Thermotoga maritima

scientific article

Synthesis of 5S Ribosomal RNA in Escherichia coli after Rifampicin Treatment ⬇️

scientific article published on October 10, 1970

Systematic overestimation of gene gain through false diagnosis of gene absence

scientific article published on January 2007

Targeting clusters of transferred genes in Thermotoga maritima

scientific article

Tempo, mode, the progenote, and the universal root

scientific article (publication date: 19 July 1994)

The Cyanobacterial Genome, its Expression, and the Control of that Expression

scientific article published on January 1, 1979

The Genome of Thermosipho africanus TCF52B: Lateral Genetic Connections to the Firmicutes and Archaea

scientific article

The Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 genome project.

scientific article published on June 1996

The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2

scientific article

The genome of Salinibacter ruber: convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea

scientific article

The impact of reticulate evolution on genome phylogeny

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

The number, physical organization and transcription of ribosomal RNA cistrons in an archaebacterium: Halobacterium halobium ⬇️

scientific article published on November 10, 1979

The role of lateral gene transfer in the evolution of isoprenoid biosynthesis pathways.

scientific article

The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny.

scientific article published on July 1996

Transcriptional Organization of the Ribosomal RNA Cistrons in Escherichia Coli ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1971

Transformation of a bop-hop-sop-I-sop-II-Halobacterium halobium mutant to bop+: effects of bacteriorhodopsin photoactivation on cellular proton fluxes and swimming behavior

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Transformation of members of the genus Haloarcula with shuttle vectors based on Halobacterium halobium and Haloferax volcanii plasmid replicons ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1992

Tubulins in Trichomonas vaginalis: molecular characterization of alpha-tubulin genes, posttranslational modifications, and homology modeling of the tubulin dimer.

scientific article published on November 2001

Unique species of 5S, 18S, and 26S ribosomal RNA in wheat mitochondria

scientific article published on 01 October 1976

Unusual ribosomal RNA gene organization in copepods of the genus Calanus

scientific article published in August 1987

Uprooting the tree of life

scientific article (publication date: February 2000)

Use of 16S rRNA and rpoB genes as molecular markers for microbial ecology studies

scientific article

Variable arrangement of 5S ribosomal genes within the ribosomal DNA repeats of arthropods ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 1992

Weighted genome trees: refinements and applications

scientific article published on February 2005

Wheat embryo mitochondrial 18S ribosomal RNA: evidence for its prokaryotic nature ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1977

Widespread and ancient distribution of a noncanonical genetic code in diplomonads

scientific article published in September 1997

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