List of works by Joel B. Dacks

A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle.

scientific article

A Phosphoinositide-Binding Protein Acts in the Trafficking Pathway of Hemoglobin in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article published on 18 January 2022

A characterization of the Manduca sexta serotonin receptors in the context of olfactory neuromodulation

scientific article

A comparative analysis of trypanosomatid SNARE proteins.

scientific article

A novel Rho-like protein TbRHP is involved in spindle formation and mitosis in trypanosomes

scientific article

A pan-apicomplexan phosphoinositide-binding protein acts in malarial microneme exocytosis.

scientific article published in June 2019

A role for adaptor protein complex 1 in protein targeting to rhoptry organelles in Plasmodium falciparum

scientific article (publication date: March 2015)

A role for the ancient SNARE syntaxin 17 in regulating mitochondrial division

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

A sophisticated, differentiated Golgi in the ancestor of eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

ARF GTPases and their GEFs and GAPs: concepts and challenges

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs

scientific article

An ER-directed transcriptional response to unfolded protein stress in the absence of conserved sensor-transducer proteins in Giardia lamblia

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

An ancestral role in peroxisome assembly is retained by the divisional peroxin Pex11 in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

An evolutionary balance: conservation vs innovation in ciliate membrane trafficking

scientific article

Analyses of RNA Polymerase II genes from free-living protists: phylogeny, long branch attraction, and the eukaryotic big bang

scientific article

Ancient complement and lineage-specific evolution of the Sec7 ARF GEF proteins in eukaryotes

scientific article published on 29 May 2019

Ancient complexity, opisthokont plasticity, and discovery of the 11th subfamily of Arf GAP proteins

scientific article published on 20 March 2013

Ancient homology of the mitochondrial contact site and cristae organizing system points to an endosymbiotic origin of mitochondrial cristae

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Arf3 is activated uniquely at the trans-Golgi network by brefeldin A-inhibited guanine nucleotide exchange factors

scientific article

Atypical phenotypes from flatworm Kv3 channels

scientific article published in February 2006

Cell biology of micro-organisms and the evolution of the eukaryotic cell.

scientific article published in March 2012

Characterization of TSET, an ancient and widespread membrane trafficking complex

scientific article

Chromerid genomes reveal the evolutionary path from photosynthetic algae to obligate intracellular parasites

scientific article

Combined nanometric and phylogenetic analysis of unique endocytic compartments in Giardia lamblia sheds light on the evolution of endocytosis in Metamonada

scientific article published in 2022

Comparative analysis of plant genomes allows the definition of the "Phytolongins": a novel non-SNARE longin domain protein family

scientific article

Comparative genomic analysis of multi-subunit tethering complexes demonstrates an ancient pan-eukaryotic complement and sculpting in Apicomplexa

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Complex patterns of gene fission in the eukaryotic folate biosynthesis pathway

scientific article

Control systems for membrane fusion in the ancestral eukaryote; evolution of tethering complexes and SM proteins

scientific article

Correction to: A sophisticated, differentiated Golgi in the ancestor of eukaryotes.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Correction: A Novel Rho-Like Protein TbRHP Is Involved in Spindle Formation and Mitosis in Trypanosomes.

scientific article published on 29 November 2011

Correction: The Fifth Adaptor Protein Complex.

scientific article published on 26 March 2012

Cryptic organelle homology in apicomplexan parasites: insights from evolutionary cell biology.

scientific article published on 8 August 2013

Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article

ELMO domains, evolutionary and functional characterization of a novel GTPase-activating protein (GAP) domain for Arf protein family GTPases

scientific article

Emergent complexity in Myosin V-based organelle inheritance

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

Eukaryotic systematics: a user's guide for cell biologists and parasitologists

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Evidence for Golgi bodies in proposed 'Golgi-lacking' lineages.

scientific article published in November 2003

Evolution and Natural History of Membrane Trafficking in Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Evolution and diversity of the Golgi

scientific article

Evolution and diversity of the Golgi body

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Evolution of Tre-2/Bub2/Cdc16 (TBC) Rab GTPase-activating proteins

scientific article

Evolution of filamentous plant pathogens: gene exchange across eukaryotic kingdoms.

scientific article

Evolution of specificity in the eukaryotic endomembrane system

scientific article published on 16 September 2008

Evolution of the endomembrane systems of trypanosomatids - conservation and specialisation.

scientific article

Evolution of the eukaryotic membrane-trafficking system: origin, tempo and mode

scientific article published on September 2007

Evolution of the karyopherin-β family of nucleocytoplasmic transport factors; ancient origins and continued specialization

scientific article

Evolution of the multivesicular body ESCRT machinery; retention across the eukaryotic lineage

scientific article published on 14 July 2008

Evolution: Parallel Paths to Parasitism in the Apicomplexa

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Evolutionary cell biology traces the rise of the exomer complex in Fungi from an ancient eukaryotic component

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Evolutionary cell biology: functional insight from "endless forms most beautiful"

scientific article

Evolutionary mechanisms for establishing eukaryotic cellular complexity.

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Evolutionary origins and specialisation of membrane transport

article published in 2018

Evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic shikimate pathway: gene fusions, horizontal gene transfer, and endosymbiotic replacements

scientific article

Evolutionary reconstruction of the retromer complex and its function in Trypanosoma brucei

scientific article published on May 2011

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

scientific article published in November 2000

Evolving eukaryotes: an interview with Joel Dacks

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Exclusive expression of the Rab11 effector SH3TC2 in Schwann cells links integrin-α6 and myelin maintenance to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4C.

scientific article published on 08 April 2016

Extreme genome diversity in the hyper-prevalent parasitic eukaryote Blastocystis.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

First and last ancestors: reconstructing evolution of the endomembrane system with ESCRTs, vesicle coat proteins, and nuclear pore complexes

scientific article published on 07 February 2009

Free-living amoebae and other neglected protistan pathogens: Health emergency signals?

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

From all to (nearly) none: Tracing adaptin evolution in Fungi

scientific article published on January 2014

Genetic analysis of ID1-DBL2X predicts its validity as a vaccine candidate in Colombia and supports at least two independently introduced Plasmodium falciparum populations in the region.

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Genomic and meta-genomic insights into the functions, diversity and global distribution of haptophyte algae

scientific article published on 28 July 2022

Genomics and transcriptomics yields a system-level view of the biology of the pathogen Naegleria fowleri

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

Genomics of Preaxostyla Flagellates Illuminates the Path Towards the Loss of Mitochondria

scientific article published on 7 December 2023

How oxymonads lost their groove: an ultrastructural comparison of Monocercomonoides and excavate taxa.

scientific article published in May 2002

Hydrogenosomal succinyl-CoA synthetase from the rumen-dwelling fungus Neocallimastix patriciarum; an energy-producing enzyme of mitochondrial origin.

scientific article

Identification and characterisation of a cryptic Golgi complex in Naegleria gruberi.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Identification and characterisation of the cryptic Golgi Apparatus in Naegleria gruberi

Implications of the new eukaryotic systematics for parasitologists

scientific article published on 04 December 2007

Interaction with the effector dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) is an ancient function of Rab32 subfamily proteins

scientific journal article

Kinetoplastid Phylogenomics Reveals the Evolutionary Innovations Associated with the Origins of Parasitism

scientific article

Longin and GAF domains: structural evolution and adaptation to the subcellular trafficking machinery

scientific article published on 11 November 2013

Losses, Expansions, and Novel Subunit Discovery of Adaptor Protein Complexes in Haptophyte Algae

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Mechanism and evolution of the Zn-fingernail required for interaction of VARP with VPS29

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Meeting Report: XIVth Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Vancouver, Canada, June 19–24, 2002

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Membrane Trafficking Modulation during Entamoeba Encystation

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Microbial Eukaryotes in Oil Sands Environments: Heterotrophs in the Spotlight

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Missing pieces of an ancient puzzle: evolution of the eukaryotic membrane-trafficking system

scientific article

Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of syntaxin genes from parasitic protozoa

scientific article published in August 2004

Molecular paleontology and complexity in the last eukaryotic common ancestor

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Molecular phylogeny of three oxymonad genera: Pyrsonympha, Dinenympha and Oxymonas.

scientific article

Multivesicular bodies in the enigmatic amoeboflagellate Breviata anathema and the evolution of ESCRT 0

scientific article

Next-Generation Sequencing Assessment of Eukaryotic Diversity in Oil Sands Tailings Ponds Sediments and Surface Water

scientific article

Novel syntaxin gene sequences from <i>Giardia, Trypanosoma</i> and algae: implications for the ancient evolution of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

scientific article published in 2002

Novel syntaxin gene sequences from Giardia, Trypanosoma and algae: implications for the ancient evolution of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

scientific article published on April 2002

Outerwear through the ages: evolutionary cell biology of vesicle coats

scientific article

Oxymonads are closely related to the excavate taxon Trimastix.

scientific article

Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution.

scientific article

Pex3 peroxisome biogenesis proteins function in peroxisome inheritance as class V myosin receptors

scientific article published on 12 October 2009

Phylogenetic Estimation of Community Composition and Novel Eukaryotic Lineages in Base Mine Lake: An Oil Sands Tailings Reclamation Site in Northern Alberta

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Phylogenetic analysis of glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferases in opisthokonts reveals unexpected ancestral complexity and novel modern biosynthetic components

scientific article

Phylogenetic and biochemical analysis of calsequestrin structure and association of its variants with cardiac disorders

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Phylogenetic and primary sequence characterization of cathepsin B cysteine proteases from the oxymonad flagellate Monocercomonoides

scientific article published in January 2008

Phylogenetic artifacts can be caused by leucine, serine, and arginine codon usage heterogeneity: dinoflagellate plastid origins as a case study

scientific article published in August 2004

Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic "supergroups"

scientific article

Phylogeny and Evolution

scholarly article published 2016

Phylogeny of endocytic components yields insight into the process of nonendosymbiotic organelle evolution

scholarly article

Plastid Transcript Editing across Dinoflagellate Lineages Shows Lineage-Specific Application but Conserved Trends.

scientific article published in April 2018

Progressive and Biased Divergent Evolution Underpins the Origin and Diversification of Peridinin Dinoflagellate Plastids.

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Proteomic Analysis of Trichomonas vaginalis Phagolysosome, Lysosomal Targeting, and Unconventional Secretion of Cysteine Peptidases

scientific article published on 08 November 2021

Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system

scientific article published on 26 June 2010

Recent gene duplications dominate evolutionary dynamics of adaptor protein complex subunits in embryophytes

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Reconstructing the evolution of the endocytic system: insights from genomics and molecular cell biology

scientific article published on January 2007

Reconstructing the mosaic glycolytic pathway of the anaerobic eukaryote Monocercomonoides

scientific article

Regulation of early endosomes across eukaryotes: Evolution and functional homology of Vps9 proteins.

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Remodeling the Specificity of an Endosomal CORVET Tether Underlies Formation of Regulated Secretory Vesicles in the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Repeated secondary loss of adaptin complex genes in the Apicomplexa

scientific article

Resolving the homology-function relationship through comparative genomics of membrane-trafficking machinery and parasite cell biology

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Sculpting the endomembrane system in deep time: high resolution phylogenetics of Rab GTPases

scientific article

Seeing the endomembrane system for the trees: Evolutionary analysis highlights the importance of plants as models for eukaryotic membrane-trafficking

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

The Genome of Naegleria gruberi Illuminates Early Eukaryotic Versatility

scientific article

The Oxymonad Genome Displays Canonical Eukaryotic Complexity in the Absence of a Mitochondrion

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

The ancient and widespread nature of the ER-mitochondria encounter structure.

scientific article

The cell biology of the endocytic system from an evolutionary perspective

scientific article (publication date: April 2014)

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

scientific article

The cloning of one putative octopamine receptor and two putative serotonin receptors from the tobacco hawkmoth, Manduca sexta

scientific article published on 7 August 2006

The evolution of MICOS: Ancestral and derived functions and interactions

scientific article

The fifth adaptor protein complex

scientific article

The first sexual lineage and the relevance of facultative sex.

scientific article published in June 1999

The mitochondrial genome and a 60-kb nuclear DNA segment from Naegleria fowleri, the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis.

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

The single ENTH-domain protein of trypanosomes; endocytic functions and evolutionary relationship with epsin

scientific article published on 17 March 2009

Tracing the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System Building Blocks

scientific article

Transcriptome, proteome and draft genome of Euglena gracilis

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Ultrastructural description of Breviata anathema, n. gen., n. sp., the organism previously studied as "Mastigamoeba invertens".

scientific article

Unexpected ancient paralogs and an evolutionary model for the COPII coat complex

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Unexpected organellar locations of ESCRT machinery in Giardia intestinalis and complex evolutionary dynamics spanning the transition to parasitism in the lineage Fornicata

scientific article published on 27 August 2021

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