Early branching eukaryotes?

The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote

1998 • 1,240 citations

Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

1994 • 992 citations

Perspectives on archaeal diversity, thermophily and monophyly from environmental rRNA sequences.

1996 • 669 citations

An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature

1997 • 633 citations

You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes

1998 • 607 citations

Animals and fungi are each other's closest relatives: congruent evidence from multiple proteins.

1993 • 551 citations

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

1999 • 518 citations

Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds

1996 • 465 citations

Reconstructing evolutionary trees from DNA and proteinsequences: paralinear distances.

1994 • 443 citations

Evolutionary relationships among protozoa.

1998 • 385 citations

Eukaryotes with no mitochondria

1987 • 385 citations

Evidence that eukaryotes and eocyte prokaryotes are immediate relatives

1992 • 339 citations

Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family

1996 • 317 citations

Origin and evolution of the slime molds (Mycetozoa)

1997 • 312 citations

A common evolutionary origin for mitochondria and hydrogenosomes.

1996 • 308 citations

A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in Giardia lamblia: Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria

1998 • 288 citations

The root of the universal tree and the origin of eukaryotes based on elongation factor phylogeny.

1996 • 274 citations

Progress in Protozoology

1963 • 262 citations

New uses for new phylogenies

1993 • 255 citations

The evolution of the Calvin cycle from prokaryotic to eukaryotic chromosomes: a case study of functional redundancy in ancient pathways through endosymbiosis

1997 • 253 citations

Evidence for loss of mitochondria in Microsporidia from a mitochondrial-type HSP70 in Nosema locustae1Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank™ data base under the accession number U97520.1

1997 • 244 citations

Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: the problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis.

1996 • 224 citations

Phylogenetic Analysis of β-Tubulin Sequences from Amitochondrial Protozoa

1996 • 217 citations

A mitochondrial Hsp70 orthologue in Vairimorpha necatrix : molecular evidence that microsporidia once contained mitochondria

1997 • 202 citations

The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity

1996 • 200 citations

Presence of a mitochondrial-type 70-kDa heat shock protein inTrichomonas vaginalissuggests a very early mitochondrial endosymbiosis in eukaryotes

1996 • 191 citations

A possible mitochondrial gene in the early-branching amitochondriate protist Trichomonas vaginalis

1996 • 172 citations

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

1995 • 172 citations

Molecular data suggest an early acquisition of the mitochondrion endosymbiont

1996 • 164 citations

Testing the Cambrian explosion hypothesis by using a molecular dating technique

1998 • 156 citations

Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi, a unicellular eukaryote with an unusual chromosomal dispersion of ribosomal genes and a LSU rRNA reduced to the universal core

1998 • 154 citations

Secondary absence of mitochondria inGiardia lambliaandTrichomonas vaginalisrevealed by valyl-tRNA synthetase phylogeny

1998 • 150 citations

Evolutionary relationships of eukaryotic kingdoms

1996 • 150 citations

Evolution of glutamate dehydrogenase genes: Evidence for two paralogous protein families and unusual branching patterns of the archaebacteria in the universal tree of life

1993 • 144 citations

Targeting and translocation of proteins into the hydrogenosome of the protist Trichomonas: similarities with mitochondrial protein import

1997 • 121 citations

Microsporidia, amitochondrial protists, possess a 70-kDa heat shock protein gene of mitochondrial evolutionary origin

1998 • 118 citations

The chaperone connection to the origins of the eukaryotic organelles

1994 • 115 citations

Evidence that eukaryotic triosephosphate isomerase is of alpha-proteobacterial origin

1997 • 112 citations

Anaerobic eukaryote evolution: hydrogenosomes as biochemically modified mitochondria?

1997 • 106 citations

History assignment: when was the mitochondrion founded?

1997 • 86 citations

Evolution of microbial life

1997 • 79 citations

Phylogeny of anaerobic rumen Chytridiomycetes inferred from small subunit ribosomal RNA sequence comparisons

1991 • 73 citations

Ancient divergence of long and short isoforms of adenylate kinase molecular evolution of the nucleoside monophosphate kinase family

1996 • 71 citations

Enzymes and compartmentation of core energy metabolism of anaerobic protists - a special case in eukaryotic evolution?

1998 • 68 citations

A kingdom's progress: Archezoa and the origin of eukaryotes

1998 • 64 citations

Phylogenetic position of symbiotic protist Dinemympha exilis in the hindgut of the termite Reticulitermes speratus inferred from the protein phylogeny of elongation factor 1α

1998 • 45 citations

Early evolution of eukaryotes inferred from protein phylogenies of translation elongation factors 1α and 2

1997 • 32 citations

Evolution and Diversity of Amitochondrial Zooflagellates

1993 • 22 citations

On embryos and ancestors.

1998 • 9 citations