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List of works by Martin Embley

A Recent Whole-Genome Duplication Divides Populations of a Globally Distributed Microsporidian

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea.

scientific article published on 24 October 2012

A family of nuclear homing endonucleases.

scientific article published on September 1993

A mitochondrial remnant in the microsporidian Trachipleistophora hominis

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2002)

A new family of cell surface located purine transporters in Microsporidia and related fungal endoparasites

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

A new polymorphic methanogen, closely related to Methanocorpusculum parvum, living in stable symbiosis within the anaerobic ciliate Trimyema sp

scientific article published on February 1, 1993

A novel ADP/ATP transporter in the mitosome of the microaerophilic human parasite Entamoeba histolytica.

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A novel potential surface protein in Trichomonas vaginalis contains a leucine-rich repeat shared by micro-organisms from all three domains of life

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A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi.

scientific article published on 30 April 2008

An [Fe] hydrogenase from the anaerobic hydrogenosome-containing fungus Neocallimastix frontalis L2.

scientific article published in August 2002

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

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Anaerobic eukaryote evolution: hydrogenosomes as biochemically modified mitochondria?

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Anaerobic eukaryotes and their archaebacterial endosymbionts

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Analyses of charophyte chloroplast genomes help characterize the ancestral chloroplast genome of land plants

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Analysis of the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterial and Methanogenic Archaeal Populations in Contrasting Antarctic Sediments.

scientific article published in June 2006

Analysis of the sulfate-reducing bacterial and methanogenic archaeal populations in contrasting Antarctic sediments

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Archaeal "dark matter" and the origin of eukaryotes

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Author Correction: Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Bayesian modelling of compositional heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics.

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Biochemical and genetic evidence for a family of heterotrimeric G-proteins in Trichomonas vaginalis.

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Changing ideas about eukaryotic origins

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Chaperonin 60 phylogeny provides further evidence for secondary loss of mitochondria among putative early-branching eukaryotes

scientific article published in October 2001

Comparative genomics of trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa

scientific article (publication date: 15 July 2005)

Comparison of the molecular diversity of the methanogenic community at the brackish and marine ends of a UK estuary

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Compositional biases among synonymous substitutions cause conflict between gene and protein trees for plastid origins

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Conflicting phylogenies for early land plants are caused by composition biases among synonymous substitutions

scientific article (publication date: March 2014)

Conserved properties of hydrogenosomal and mitochondrial ADP/ATP carriers: a common origin for both organelles

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Convergent Evolution of Hydrogenosomes from Mitochondria by Gene Transfer and Loss

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Coupling of diversification and pH adaptation during the evolution of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota

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Cultivation-based and molecular approaches to characterisation of terrestrial and aquatic nitrifiers

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Cyclidium porcatum n. sp.: a Free-living anaerobic scuticociliate containing a stable complex of hydrogenosomes, eubacteria and archaeobacteria

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Development, life cycle, ultrastructure and phylogenetic position ofPasteuria ramosaMetchnikoff 1888: rediscovery of an obligate endoparasite ofDaphnia magnaStraus

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Differential remodelling of peroxisome function underpins the environmental and metabolic adaptability of diplonemids and kinetoplastids

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Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes

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Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis

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Early evolution comes full circle

scientific article published in Nature

Eukaryotic evolution, changes and challenges

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2006)

Evolutionary conservation and in vitro reconstitution of microsporidian iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis

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Frataxin, a conserved mitochondrial protein, in the hydrogenosome of Trichomonas vaginalis

scientific article published on 15 June 2007

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolases in amitochondriate protists constitute a single protein subfamily with eubacterial relationships

scientific article published in July 2002

Fungal hydrogenosomes contain mitochondrial heat-shock proteins.

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Generalizing rate heterogeneity across sites in statistical phylogenetics

scholarly article by Sarah E Heaps et al published 10 March 2019 in Statistical Modelling

Genomes of two archaeal endosymbionts show convergent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle

scientific article published on 10 July 2018

Grassland management regimens reduce small-scale heterogeneity and species diversity of beta-proteobacterial ammonia pxidizer populations.

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Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Evolution of Parasitic Protozoa

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Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotic Parasites: A Case Study of Entamoeba histolytica and Trichomonas vaginalis

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

scientific article published on 2 March 2006

Hydrogenosomes, mitochondria and early eukaryotic evolution.

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Inference of the phylogenetic position of oxymonads based on nine genes: support for metamonada and excavata.

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Informational Gene Phylogenies Do Not Support a Fourth Domain of Life for Nucleocytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

scientific article published on June 16, 2011

Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life

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Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world?

scientific article (publication date: 29 June 2006)

Iron hydrogenases--ancient enzymes in modern eukaryotes.

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Isolation of haloarchaea that grow at low salinities.

scientific article published in June 2004

Lactobacillus vaginalis sp. nov. from the Human Vagina

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Lateral gene transfers and the origins of the eukaryote proteome: a view from microbial parasites

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Links between ammonia oxidizer species composition, functional diversity and nitrification kinetics in grassland soils

scientific article published in May 2005

Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins

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MICROBIAL DIVERSITY: Domains and Kingdoms

scientific article published in 1996

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

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Microsporidia: Why Make Nucleotides if You Can Steal Them?

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Mitochondria and hydrogenosomes are two forms of the same fundamental organelle

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Molecular analysis of enrichment cultures of marine ammonia oxidisers

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Molecular data suggest an early acquisition of the mitochondrion endosymbiont

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Molecular evidence for the presence of novel actinomycete lineages in a temperate forest soil

scientific article published in 1996

Morphology and Phylogeny of a New Species of Anaerobic Ciliate, Trimyema finlayi n. sp., with Endosymbiotic Methanogens

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Multiple origins of anaerobic ciliates with hydrogenosomes within the radiation of aerobic ciliates

scientific article published on 01 October 1995

Multiple secondary origins of the anaerobic lifestyle in eukaryotes

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Naegleria nucleolar introns contain two group I ribozymes with different functions in RNA splicing and processing

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

New species double the diversity of anaerobic ciliates in a Spanish lake

scientific article published in May 1993

New substitution models for rooting phylogenetic trees

scientific article published on September 2015

Nitrogen cycling and community structure of proteobacterial beta-subgroup ammonia-oxidizing bacteria within polluted marine fish farm sediments

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Of clades and clans: terms for phylogenetic relationships in unrooted trees

scientific article published on 18 January 2007

Patterns of prokaryotic lateral gene transfers affecting parasitic microbial eukaryotes

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Phylogenetic Diversity of NTT Nucleotide Transport Proteins in Free-Living and Parasitic Bacteria and Eukaryotes

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Phylogenetic analyses of diplomonad genes reveal frequent lateral gene transfers affecting eukaryotes.

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Phylogenetic relationships among karyorelictids and heterotrichs inferred from small subunit rRNA sequences: resolution at the base of the ciliate tree.

scientific article published on March 1995

Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Physical stabilization and confocal microscopy of bacteria on roots using 16S rRNA targeted, fluorescent-labeled oligonucleotide probes

Planctomycetes and eukaryotes: a case of analogy not homology

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Plasma membrane-located purine nucleotide transport proteins are key components for host exploitation by microsporidian intracellular parasites

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Plastid establishment did not require a chlamydial partner

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Primary succession of soil Crenarchaeota across a receding glacier foreland

scientific article published in March 2005

Reduction and expansion in microsporidian genome evolution: new insights from comparative genomics

scientific article published on January 2013

Reductive evolution of the mitochondrial processing peptidases of the unicellular parasites trichomonas vaginalis and giardia intestinalis

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Resculpting the binding pocket of APC superfamily LeuT-fold amino acid transporters

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Some rumen ciliates have endosymbiotic methanogens

scientific article published on 01 April 1994

Species Diversity of Uncultured and Cultured Populations of Soil and Marine Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria.

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Steps on the road to eukaryotes

scientific article published in Nature

The SAR11 Group of Alpha-Proteobacteria Is Not Related to the Origin of Mitochondria

scientific article published on January 23, 2012

The amitochondriate eukaryote Trichomonas vaginalis contains a divergent thioredoxin-linked peroxiredoxin antioxidant system.

scientific article published on 20 November 2003

The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

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The diversity and evolution of thioredoxin reductase: new perspectives

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The effect of non-reversibility on inferring rooted phylogenies

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

The genome of the obligate intracellular parasite Trachipleistophora hominis: new insights into microsporidian genome dynamics and reductive evolution

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

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The linear PCR reaction: a simple and robust method for sequencing amplified rRNA genes

scientific article published on September 1, 1991

The primary divisions of life: a phylogenomic approach employing composition-heterogeneous methods

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2009)

The ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase gene cluster of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

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Transcriptomic profiling of host-parasite interactions in the microsporidian Trachipleistophora hominis

scientific article published on 21 November 2015

Transport proteins of parasitic protists and their role in nutrient salvage.

scientific article published on 29 April 2014

Transporter gene acquisition and innovation in the evolution of Microsporidia intracellular parasites.

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Trichomonas hydrogenosomes contain the NADH dehydrogenase module of mitochondrial complex I.

scientific article published in December 2004

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

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Unique phylogenetic relationships of glucokinase and glucosephosphate isomerase of the amitochondriate eukaryotes Giardia intestinalis, Spironucleus barkhanus and Trichomonas vaginalis.

scientific article published in December 2001

Use of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes to investigate function and phylogeny of sulphate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea in a UK estuary.

scientific article published in June 2003