List of works by William F. Martin

A briefly argued case that mitochondria and plastids are descendants of endosymbionts, but that the nuclear compartment is not

scientific article (publication date: 7 July 1999)

A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

scientific article

A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

A hydrogen-producing mitochondrion.

scientific article published in December 1998

A machine learning approach to identify hydrogenosomal proteins in Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

A machine-learning approach reveals that alignment properties alone can accurately predict inference of lateral gene transfer from discordant phylogenies.

scientific article

A method for isolation of cDNA-quality mRNA from immature seeds of a gymnosperm rich in polyphenolics

article

A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule

scientific article

A nuclear gene of eubacterial origin in Euglena gracilis reflects cryptic endosymbioses during protist evolution

scientific article

A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

A reality check for alignments and trees

article

A spectrum of verticality across genes

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Acceleration of genomic evolution caused by enhanced mutation rate in endocellular symbionts.

scientific article

Acetate:succinate CoA-transferase in the hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis: identification and characterization.

scientific article published on 16 November 2007

Acquisition of 1,000 eubacterial genes physiologically transformed a methanogen at the origin of Haloarchaea

scientific article

Algal endosymbionts in European Hydra strains reflect multiple origins of the zoochlorella symbiosis.

scientific article published on 25 July 2015

An Algal Greening of Land

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Anaerobic animals from an ancient, anoxic ecological niche ⬇️

scientific article published in 2010

Anaerobic energy metabolism in unicellular photosynthetic eukaryotes

scientific article published on 10 August 2012

Ancestral genome sizes specify the minimum rate of lateral gene transfer during prokaryote evolution.

scholarly article

Animals, anoxic environments, and reasons to go deep

scientific article

Anthranilate synthase from Ruta graveolens. Duplicated AS alpha genes encode tryptophan-sensitive and tryptophan-insensitive isoenzymes specific to amino acid and alkaloid biosynthesis.

scientific article

Archaebacteria (Archaea) and the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus.

scientific article

Asking endosymbionts to do an enzyme's job

scientific article published on 03 May 2018

AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap

scientific article

Bacterial Vesicle Secretion and the Evolutionary Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System

scientific article

Bifunctional aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHE) in chlorophyte algal mitochondria.

scientific article published in September 2003

Biochemical fossils of the ancient transition from geoenergetics to bioenergetics in prokaryotic one carbon compound metabolism

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Biochemistry and evolution of anaerobic energy metabolism in eukaryotes

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Characterization of a Multigene Family Encoding an Exopolygalacturonase in Maize

scientific article published on 01 February 1993

Chloroplast class I and class II aldolases are bifunctional for fructose-1,6-biphosphate and sedoheptulose-1,7-biphosphate cleavage in the Calvin cycle

article

Chloroplast incorporation and long-term photosynthetic performance through the life cycle in laboratory cultures of Elysia timida (Sacoglossa, Heterobranchia)

scientific article

Chloroplast phosphoglycerate kinase from Euglena gracilis: endosymbiotic gene replacement going against the tide.

scientific article published in October 2004

Concatenated alignments and the case of the disappearing tree

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Conservation of Transit Peptide-Independent Protein Import into the Mitochondrial and Hydrogenosomal Matrix.

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans

scientific article published on 15 March 2024

Deep sequencing of Trichomonas vaginalis during the early infection of vaginal epithelial cells and amoeboid transition

scientific article

Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes

scientific article

Does endo-symbiosis explain the origin of the nucleus?

article

ERAD components in organisms with complex red plastids suggest recruitment of a preexisting protein transport pathway for the periplastid membrane.

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:A Powerhouse Divided

scientific article published in Science

Early Microbial Evolution: The Age of Anaerobes

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Early evolution comes full circle

scientific article published in Nature

Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

scientific article

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin

scientific article

Endosymbiotic theory for organelle origins

scientific article

Energy for two: New archaeal lineages and the origin of mitochondria.

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Energy in Ancient Metabolism

scientific article published in March 2017

Energy, genes and evolution: introduction to an evolutionary synthesis

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Eubacterial origin of nuclear genes for chloroplast and cytosolic glucose-6-phosphate isomerase from spinach: sampling eubacterial gene diversity in eukaryotic chromosomes through symbiosis.

scientific article

Euglena gracilisRibonucleotide Reductase

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Eukaryote lateral gene transfer is Lamarckian

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Eukaryotes really are special, and mitochondria are why

scientific article (publication date: 17 August 2015)

Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2006)

Evidence for a chimeric nature of nuclear genomes: eubacterial origin of eukaryotic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes.

scientific article published on September 1993

Evolution of the Rubisco operon from prokaryotes to algae: structure and analysis of the rbcS gene of the brown alga Pylaiella littoralis.

scientific article

Evolution of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle of higher plants. A case study of endosymbiotic gene transfer.

scientific article published in February 2002

Evolution. Energy at life's origin

scientific article published in June 2014

Evolutionary analysis of 58 proteins encoded in six completely sequenced chloroplast genomes: Revised molecular estimates of two seed plant divergence times

article

Evolutionary biology: essence of mitochondria.

scientific article published in November 2003

Evolutionary origins of metabolic compartmentalization in eukaryotes.

scientific article published on March 2010

Expression of nucleus-encoded genes for chloroplast proteins in the flagellate Euglena gracilis.

scientific article

Failure to Recover Major Events of Gene Flux in Real Biological Data Due to Method Misapplication.

scientific article published in April 2018

Five identical intron positions in ancient duplicated genes of eubacterial origin.

scientific article published in January 1994

Functional conservation of calreticulin in Euglena gracilis.

scientific article published in May 1998

Functional studies of chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase subunits A and B expressed in Escherichia coli: formation of highly active A4 and B4 homotetramers and evidence that aggregation of the B4 complex is mediated by the B subuni

scientific article published in November 1996

Gene Transfer from Organelles to the Nucleus: How Much, What Happens, and Why?

article

Genetics and geography of wild cereal domestication in the near east.

scientific article

Genome history in the symbiotic hybrid Euglena gracilis

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Genome networks root the tree of life between prokaryotic domains

scientific article (publication date: 12 July 2010)

Genomes of Stigonematalean cyanobacteria (subsection V) and the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis from prokaryotes to plastids

scientific article

Getting a better picture of evolution

article

Haplotype structure at seven barley genes: relevance to gene pool bottlenecks, phylogeny of ear type and site of barley domestication.

scientific article published on 7 June 2006

Higher-plant chloroplast and cytosolic 3-phosphoglycerate kinases: a case of endosymbiotic gene replacement.

scientific article published in January 1996

How many genes in Arabidopsis come from cyanobacteria? An estimate from 386 protein phylogenies

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Hydrogen, metals, bifurcating electrons, and proton gradients: the early evolution of biological energy conservation

scientific article

Identification of prokaryotic homologues indicates an endosymbiotic origin for the alternative oxidases of mitochondria (AOX) and chloroplasts (PTOX)

scientific article

Independent Wheat B and G Genome Origins in Outcrossing Aegilops Progenitor Haplotypes

article published in 2006

Interspecific evolution: microbial symbiosis, endosymbiosis and gene transfer.

scientific article

Intron conservation across the prokaryote-eukaryote boundary: structure of the nuclear gene for chloroplast glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from maize

scientific article (publication date: April 1988)

Intron-dependent transient expression of the maize GapA1 gene

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Is ftsH the key to plastid longevity in sacoglossan slugs?

scientific article

Isoprenoid biosynthesis: the evolution of two ancient and distinct pathways across genomes.

scientific article

Knockout of the abundant Trichomonas vaginalis hydrogenosomal membrane protein TvHMP23 increases hydrogenosome size but induces no compensatory up-regulation of paralogous copies.

scientific article

Late Mitochondrial Origin Is an Artifact

scientific article

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent.

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Massively convergent evolution for ribosomal protein gene content in plastid and mitochondrial genomes

scientific article published on January 2013

Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes

scientific article

Microsequencing and cDNA cloning of the Calvin cycle/OPPP enzyme ribose-5-phosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.1.6) from spinach chloroplasts.

scientific article

Mitochondria, complexity, and evolutionary deficit spending.

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Mitochondria, the Cell Cycle, and the Origin of Sex via a Syncytial Eukaryote Common Ancestor

scientific article

Molecular characterization of a novel, nuclear-encoded, NAD+-dependent glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in plastids of the gymnosperm Pinus sylvestris L

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Molecular evolution: Lateral gene transfer and other possibilities

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Molecular poltergeists: mitochondrial DNA copies (numts) in sequenced nuclear genomes

scientific article (publication date: 12 February 2010)

Mosses do express conventional, distantly B-type-related phytochromes. Phytochrome of Physcomitrella patens (Hedw.).

scientific article published on November 1993

Mutational decay and age of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes transferred recently to angiosperm nuclear chromosomes

scientific article (publication date: July 2005)

Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO2 reduction in early biochemical evolution.

scientific article published on 6 January 2018

Networks of lexical borrowing and lateral gene transfer in language and genome evolution.

scientific article

Of early animals, anaerobic mitochondria, and a modern sponge.

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

On Being the Right Size as an Animal with Plastids

scientific article

On the Origin of Heterotrophy.

scientific article

On the origin of biochemistry at an alkaline hydrothermal vent

scientific article

On the origins of cells: a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells

scientific article

One step beyond a ribosome: The ancient anaerobic core

scientific article

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

scientific article

Out of thin air

scientific article published in Nature

Pathogenic archaebacteria: do they not exist because archaebacteria use different vitamins?

article

Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Phylogenomics of the reproductive parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: a streamlined genome overrun by mobile genetic elements

scientific article

Physiological evolution: Genomic redox footprints.

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Physiology, anaerobes, and the origin of mitosing cells 50 years on.

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Physiology, phylogeny, and LUCA

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

Physiology, phylogeny, early evolution, and GAPDH

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Planctomycetes and eukaryotes: a case of analogy not homology

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Plastid origin: who, when and why?

article

Plastid-bearing sea slugs fix CO2 in the light but do not require photosynthesis to survive.

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Protein import and the origin of red complex plastids

scientific article

Purification and cDNA cloning of anthranilate synthase from Ruta graveolens: modes of expression and properties of native and recombinant enzymes.

scientific article

Quantifying the number of independent organelle DNA insertions in genome evolution and human health.

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Rate and polarity of gene fusion and fission in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana.

scientific article published on 11 October 2006

Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision

scientific article (publication date: February 2004)

Realistic Gene Transfer to Gene Duplication Ratios Identify Different Roots in the Bacterial Phylogeny Using a Tree Reconciliation Method

scientific article published on 05 July 2022

Reply to 'Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?'

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

SMBE Satellite meeting on reticulated microbial evolution 2014--meeting report

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Sequences of rDNA internal transcribed spacers from the chloroplast DNA of 26 bryophytes: properties and phylogenetic utility.

scientific article published in January 1998

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

scientific article published on December 2010

Structure and Evolution of the Archaeal Lipid Synthesis Enzyme sn-Glycerol-1-phosphate Dehydrogenase

scientific article

Structure and Properties of an Engineered Transketolase from Maize

scientific article

Subcellular targeting of proteins and pathways during evolution

article

Sulfide : quinone oxidoreductase (SQR) from the lugworm Arenicola marina shows cyanide- and thioredoxin-dependent activity.

scientific article

Supertrees and symbiosis in eukaryote genome evolution

article

Testing hypotheses without considering predictions

article

The Entner-Doudoroff pathway is an overlooked glycolytic route in cyanobacteria and plants

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

The Mitochondrion of Euglena gracilis

scientific article published on January 2017

The N-Terminal Sequences of Four Major Hydrogenosomal Proteins Are Not Essential for Import into Hydrogenosomes ofTrichomonas vaginalis

article

The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin.

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

The Ribofilm as a Concept for Life's Origins.

scientific article

The actin-based machinery of Trichomonas vaginalis mediates flagellate-amoeboid transition and migration across host tissue.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

The difference between organelles and endosymbionts

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The energetics of genome complexity

scientific article (publication date: 21 October 2010)

The evolution of the Calvin cycle from prokaryotic to eukaryotic chromosomes: a case study of functional redundancy in ancient pathways through endosymbiosis.

scientific article published on July 1997

The metabolic network of the last bacterial common ancestor

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

The missing link between hydrogenosomes and mitochondria

scientific article

The origin of mitochondria in light of a fluid prokaryotic chromosome model.

scientific article

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2016)

The rocky roots of the acetyl-CoA pathway

scientific article

The smoking gun of gene transfer

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The tree of one percent.

scientific article

Transformation and conjugal transfer of foreign genes into the filamentous multicellular cyanobacteria (subsection V) Fischerella and Chlorogloeopsis

scientific article published on 26 July 2012

Transketolase from Cyanophora paradoxa: in vitro import into cyanelles and pea chloroplasts and a complex history of a gene often, but not always, transferred in the context of secondary endosymbiosis.

scientific article published in November 2009

Unmiraculous facultative anaerobes (comment on DOI 10.1002/bies.201600174)

scientific article published on 02 May 2017

Variability of wax ester fermentation in natural and bleached Euglena gracilis Strains in response to oxygen and the elongase inhibitor flufenacet.

scientific article published on 10 December 2009

cDNA cloning of a Sec61 homologue from the cryptomonad alga Pyrenomonas salina

article

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