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Symbiosis in cell evolution

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Life cycle of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1988 • 565 citations

The Masterpiece of Nature

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SELFISH DNA: A SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED NUCLEAR PARASITE

1982 • 490 citations

Bacterial conjugative plasmids mobilize DNA transfer between bacteria and yeast

1989 • 475 citations

Evidence for horizontal transmission of the P transposable element between Drosophila species.

1990 • 453 citations

Four mating-type genes control sexual differentiation in the fission yeast.

1988 • 388 citations

The a mating type locus of U. maydis specifies cell signaling components

1992 • 388 citations

An intron-encoded protein is active in a gene conversion process that spreads an intron into a mitochondrial gene

1985 • 378 citations

Mating type and mating strategies in Neurospora

1990 • 327 citations

Conjugative Transposons and the Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance in Streptococci

1986 • 276 citations

Evolutionary transfer of the chloroplast tufA gene to the nucleus

1990 • 236 citations

Neurospora crassa A mating-type region.

1990 • 220 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF SELF-REGULATED TRANSPOSITION OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS

1986 • 204 citations

Rearranged mitochondrial genes in the yeast nuclear genome

1983 • 196 citations

The b mating-type locus of Ustilago maydis contains variable and constant regions.

1990 • 166 citations

A naturally occurring horizontal gene transfer from a eukaryote to a prokaryote

1990 • 150 citations

Transmission of mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes in crosses of Chlamydomonas.

1987 • 149 citations

Rearrangements of the transposable mating-type cassettes of fission yeast.

1984 • 144 citations

Apparent eukaryotic origin of glutamine synthetase II from the bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum

1986 • 138 citations

The genetics of recombination

1977 • 132 citations

The Protozoan Nucleus

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Evidence for a natural gene transfer from the ponyfish to its bioluminescent bacterial symbiont Photobacter leiognathi. The close relationship between bacteriocuprein and the copper-zinc superoxide dismutase of teleost fishes.

1981 • 109 citations

Evidence for horizontal transmission of the mobile element jockey between distant Drosophila species.

1990 • 101 citations

Cloning and comparison of Aα mating-type alleles of the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune

1989 • 82 citations

The Contributions of Retroviruses to the Study of Mammalian Evolution

1985 • 81 citations

Cleavage pattern of the homing endonuclease encoded by the fifth intron in the chloroplast large subunit rRNA-encoding gene of Chlamydomonas eugametos

1991 • 79 citations

Molecular analysis of the Coprinus cinereus mating type A factor demonstrates an unexpectedly complex structure.

1991 • 77 citations

The a mating-type alleles of Ustilago maydis are idiomorphs

1991 • 74 citations

Molecular organisation of an A mating type factor of the basidiomycete fungus Coprinus cinereus

1990 • 71 citations

The presence of a copper/zinc superoxide dismutase in the bacterium Photobacterium leiognathi: a likely case of gene transfer from eukaryotes to prokaryotes.

1985 • 70 citations

The apocytochrome b gene of Chlamydomonas smithii contains a mobile intron related to both Saccharomyces and Neurospora introns

1990 • 65 citations

Sexual differentiation in fission yeast

1990 • 60 citations

The evolutionary biology of molecular parasites

1990 • 52 citations

A mitochondrial plasmid that promotes mitochondrial fusion inPhysarum polycephalum

1991 • 52 citations

B-chromosomes: germ-line parasites which induce changes in host recombination

1990 • 43 citations

The architecture of the life cycle in small organisms

1991 • 41 citations

The role of similarity and difference in fungal mating.

1990 • 36 citations

Copper/Zinc superoxide dismutase: How likely is gene transfer from ponyfish toPhotobacterium leiognathi?

1986 • 29 citations

The ecology and genetics of fitness in Chlamydomonas VI. Antagonism between natural selection and sexual selection

1992 • 21 citations

Splicing and the evolution of introns

1985 • 9 citations

The amino acid sequences of the copper/zinc superoxide dismutases from swordfish and Photobacter leiognathi confirm the predictions made from the compositions

1985 • 9 citations

Genetical Relatedness of a Former Apomict and a Heterothallic Isolate in Didymium Iridis (Myxomycetes)

1985 • 7 citations

Rescue of lethal mutations in the mating-type region of Schizosaccharomyces pombe by an extrachromosomal element

1991 • 4 citations