Rumpho, M.E., J.M. Worful, J. Lee, K. Kannan, M.S. Tyler,
D. Bhattacharya, A. Moustafa, and J.R. Manhart.
Accepted. Horizontal gene transfer of the algal
nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea
slug Elysia chlorotica.
PNAS 2008 Nov 18;105(46):17867-71. Epub 2008

Gross, J., and D. Bhattacharya. Accepted.
Revaluating the evolution of the Toc/Tic protein
translocons. Trends Plant Sci.

Reyes-Prieto, A., H.S. Yoon, and D. Bhattacharya.
Provisionally accepted. Marine protist (algal)
genomics and evolution. Encyclopedia of
Life Sciences.
Recent Papers:

Frommolt R., S. Werner, H. Paulsen, R. Goss, C.
Wilhelm, S. Zauner, U.G. Maier, A.R. Grossman,
D. Bhattacharya, M. Lohr. Ancient Recruitment by
Chromists of Green Algal Genes Encoding
Enzymes for Carotenoid Biosynthesis.
Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Sep 17.

Grosskurth, S.E., D. Bhattacharya, Wang Q., Lin, J.J.
Emergence of Xin Demarcates a Key Innovation in
Heart Evolution. PLoS ONE 2008 PDF

Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish
Bhattacharya. Multiple genes of apparent algal
origin suggest ciliates may once have been
photosynthetic. Curr Biol. 2008 Jul 8;18(13):956-62.

Ahmed Moustafa, Adrian Reyes-Prieto, Debashish
Bhattacharya. Chlamydiae Has Contributed at
Least 55 Genes to Plantae with Predominantly
Plastid Functions. PLoS ONE 2008 PDF

William Lanier, Ahmed Moustafa, Debashish
Bhattacharya and Josep M. Comeron. EST analysis
of Ostreococcus lucimarinus, the most compact
eukaryotic genome, shows an excess of introns in
highly expressed genes. PLoS ONE. 2008 May
14;3(5):e2171. PDF

Jeferson Gross, Jorg Meurer and Debashish
Bhattacharya. Evidence of a chimeric genome in
the cyanobacterial ancestor of plastids. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:117 (23 Apr 2008) PDF

Ahmed Moustafa and Debashish Bhattacharya,
PhyloSort: a user-friendly phylogenetic sorting
tool and its application to estimating the
cyanobacterial contribution to the nuclear genome
of Chlamydomonas.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:6 (2008) PDF

Debashish Bhattacharya and Tetyana Nosenko.
Endosymbiotic and horizontal gene transfer in
chromalveolates. J. Phycol., Volume 44, Issue 1,
Page 7-10, Feb 2008

Yoon, H.S., J. Grant, Y.I. Tekle, M. Wu, B.C. Chaon,
J.C. Cole, J.M. Logsdon, D.J. Patterson,
D. Bhattacharya, and L.A. Katz. Broadly sampled
multigene trees of eukaryotes.
BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Jan 18;8:14 PDF

Bhattacharya, D., J.M. Archibald, A.P.M. Weber, and
A. Reyes-Prieto. 2007. How do endosymbionts
become organelles? Understanding early events
in plastid evolution. BioEssays 2007
Dec;29(12):1239-46.

Nosenko Tetyana and Debashish Bhattacharya.
Horizontal gene transfer in chromalveolates.
BMC Evol. Bio. 2007 Sep 25;7(1):173 PDF

Tyra H. M., M. Linka , A.P.M. Weber, D. Bhattacharya. Host Origin of Plastid Solute Transporters in the
First Photosynthetic Eukaryotes.
Genome Biol. 2007 Oct 5;8(10):R212 PDF

Haugen P., D. Bhattacharya, J.D. Palmer, S. Turner,
L.A. Lewis and K.M. Pryer. Cyanobacterial
ribosomal RNA genes with multiple,
endonuclease-encoding group I introns.
BMC Evol. Bio. 2007 Sep 8;7:159. PDF

Zhang, H., D. Bhattacharya, and S. Lin.
A three-gene phylogeny suggests monophyly of
Prorocentrales and a basal position for
Amphidinium and Heterocapsa. J. Mol. Evol. 2007
Oct;65(4):463-74. PDF

Nosenko, T., B. Boese, and D. Bhattacharya.
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis analysis of
genome size and structure in Pavlova gyrans
and Diacronema sp. (Haptophyta).
J. Phycol. 43,763–767 (2007). PDF

Reyes Prieto, A., and D. Bhattacharya.
Phylogeny of Calvin cycle enzymes supports
Plantae monophyly. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2007
Oct;45(1):384-91. PDF

Reyes-Prieto A., Bhattacharya D. 2007. Phylogeny
of Nuclear Encoded Plastid Targeted Proteins
Supports an Early Divergence of Glaucophytes
within Plantae. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Nov;24(11):
2358-61. PDF

Hackett, J.D., H.S. Yoon, S. Li, A. Reyes-Prieto,
S.E. Rummele, and D. Bhattacharya.
Phylogenomic analysis supports the monophyly
of cryptophytes and haptophytes and the
association of 'Rhizaria' with chromalveolates.
Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Aug;24(8):1702-13. PDF

Reyes-Prieto, A., A.P.M. Weber, and D. Bhattacharya. 2007. Plastid endosymbiosis: The origin and
establishment of the plastid in algae and plants.
Annu Rev Genet . 2007 Jun 28. PDF

Patterson, D.J., D. Bhattacharya, J. Cole,
M. Dunthorn, J. Logsdon, L. Katz and
L.Wegener Parfrey. Classifying protists.
Microbiology Today 2007 February:44-45. PDF

Reyes-Prieto, A., J.D. Hackett, M.F. Bonaldo,
M.B. Soares, and D. Bhattacharya.
Cyanobacterial contribution to algal nuclear
genomes is primarily limited to plastid functions.
Curr. Biol. 2006 Dec 5;16(23):2320-5. PDF

Reeb, V., P. Haugen, D. Bhattacharya
and F. Lutzoni. Evolution of Pleopsidium
(lichenized Ascomycota) S943 group I introns
and the phylogeography of an intron-encoded
putative homing endonuclease.
JME. 2007 Feb. 8. PDF