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List of works by Simonetta Gribaldo

A DNA topoisomerase IB in Thaumarchaeota testifies for the presence of this enzyme in the last common ancestor of Archaea and Eucarya

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A genomic survey of Reb homologs suggests widespread occurrence of R-bodies in proteobacteria.

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A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes

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A horizontal gene transfer at the origin of phenylpropanoid metabolism: a key adaptation of plants to land

scientific article (publication date: 16 February 2009)

An emerging phylogenetic core of Archaea: phylogenies of transcription and translation machineries converge following addition of new genome sequences

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An rpoB signature sequence provides unique resolution for the molecular typing of cyanobacteria

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Ancient phylogenetic relationships

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Archaeal phylogeny based on proteins of the transcription and translation machineries: tackling the Methanopyrus kandleri paradox

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BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

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Bacteria with a eukaryotic touch: a glimpse of ancient evolution?

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Comparative analyses of Legionella species identifies genetic features of strains causing Legionnaires' disease

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Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine

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Crenarchaeal CdvA forms double-helical filaments containing DNA and interacts with ESCRT-III-like CdvB

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Diversity of virus-host systems in hypersaline Lake Retba, Senegal

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Eukaryotic origins: How and when was the mitochondrion acquired?

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Evidence for a Xer/dif system for chromosome resolution in archaea

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Evolutionary history of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase, one of the oldest enzymatic complexes

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Functional divergence prediction from evolutionary analysis: a case study of vertebrate hemoglobin

scientific article published on 27 June 2003

Genome sequence of "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Mx1201, a methanogenic archaeon from the human gut belonging to a seventh order of methanogens

scientific article published on December 2012

Genome-wide analyses of chitin synthases identify horizontal gene transfers towards bacteria and allow a robust and unifying classification into fungi

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Geographic structuring of the Plasmodium falciparum sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (PfSERCA) gene diversity

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Global phylogenomic analysis disentangles the complex evolutionary history of DNA replication in archaea

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Happy together: genomic insights into the unique Nanoarchaeum/Ignicoccus association

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Heterotachy and functional shift in protein evolution

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Highly plastic genome of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806, a ubiquitous toxic freshwater cyanobacterium

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Identification, purification, and characterization of an eukaryotic-like phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase (coenzyme A biosynthetic pathway) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus abyssi.

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Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

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Methanogenesis and the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway: An Ancient, Versatile, and Fragile Association

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Nanoarchaea: representatives of a novel archaeal phylum or a fast-evolving euryarchaeal lineage related to Thermococcales?

scientific article published on 14 April 2005

Origin and evolution of DNA topoisomerases

scientific article published on 4 January 2007

Outer Membrane Proteome of Veillonella parvula: A Diderm Firmicute of the Human Microbiome

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Paenibacillus faecis sp. nov., isolated from human faeces

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Phylogenetic and Functional Analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus MGTC, a Fungal Protein Homologous to a Bacterial Virulence Factor

scientific article published on May 20, 2011

Phylogenomics of sterol synthesis: insights into the origin, evolution, and diversity of a key eukaryotic feature

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Phylogenomics of the archaeal flagellum: rare horizontal gene transfer in a unique motility structure

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Phylogeny and evolution of the Archaea: one hundred genomes later

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Phylogeny of prokaryotes: does it exist and why should we care?

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Ribonucleotide reduction - horizontal transfer of a required function spans all three domains

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S-layers at second glance? Altiarchaeal grappling hooks (hami) resemble archaeal S-layer proteins in structure and sequence

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Taxonomic and functional prokaryote diversity in mildly arsenic-contaminated sediments

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The Flagellar Arginine Kinase in Trypanosoma brucei Is Important for Infection in Tsetse Flies

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

The changing view of eukaryogenesis - fossils, cells, lineages and how they all come together

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The genome reduction hypothesis and the phylogeny of eukaryotes

scientific article published on December 2003

The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology

scientific article published on 04 August 2017

The origin and evolution of Archaea: a state of the art

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The origin of modern terrestrial life

scientific article (publication date: September 2007)

The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Toward more accurate ancestral protein genotype-phenotype reconstructions with the use of species tree-aware gene trees

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Transcriptional Analysis and Subcellular Protein Localization Reveal Specific Features of the Essential WalKR System in Staphylococcus aureus

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Unique characteristics of the pyrrolysine system in the 7th order of methanogens: implications for the evolution of a genetic code expansion cassette

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Updating carbamoylphosphate synthase (CPS) phylogenies: occurrence and phylogenetic identity of archaeal CPS genes

scientific article published on August 2002