RRC ID 28577
著者 Worden AZ, Allen AE.
タイトル The voyage of the microbial eukaryote.
ジャーナル Curr Opin Microbiol
Abstract Although genome data from unicellular marine eukaryotes is sparse, sequences from several supergroups have initiated an era of genome-enabled research aimed at understanding gene function, evolution, and adaptation in non-traditional model protists. Trends in genomic content within and between different lineages are emerging, including phylogenetically anomalous patterns, sometimes resulting from horizontal gene transfer. Some such genes have nutrient uptake and metabolism roles suggesting that bacterial and eukaryotic microbes have similar cellular-mineral-environmental constraints. Many 'accessory genome' components are of unknown function, but low gene copy numbers combined with small genomes make protists ideal for systems biology. Cultured and uncultured protists are providing insights to ecology, ancestral features and the role of cooption in development of complex traits. Various protists harbor features important in sexuality and multicellularity once believed to have originated in metazoans or other multicellular taxa.
巻・号 13(5)
ページ 652-60
公開日 2010-10-1
DOI 10.1016/j.mib.2010.08.001
PII S1369-5274(10)00115-3
PMID 20832353
MeSH Biodiversity Epigenomics Eukaryota / genetics* Evolution, Molecular* Gene Transfer, Horizontal Genetics, Microbial
IF 8.134
引用数 15
WOS 分野 MICROBIOLOGY
リソース情報
藻類 NIES-2672