Professor Johann Peter Gogarten

Expanding the utility of sequence comparisons using data from whole genomes

• January 2020

Reconstructing the evolutionary origins of extreme halophilic Archaeal lineages

• December 2019

Identification and characterization of putative Aeromonas spp. T3SS effectors

• PLoS ONE
• June 2019

Complete Genome Sequence of Halorubrum ezzemoulense Strain Fb21

• Microbiology Resource Announcements
• March 2019

The Patchy Distribution of Restriction–Modification System Genes and the Conservation o...

• Genes
• March 2019

Identification and characterization of putative Aeromonas spp. T3SS effectors

• March 2019

The Patchy Distribution of Restriction-Modification System Genes and the Conservation o...

• February 2019

Factors influencing bacterial microbiome composition in a wild non-human primate commun...

• The ISME Journal
• June 2018

Comparative Analysis of Surface Layer Glycoproteins and Genes Involved in Protein Glyco...

• Genes
• March 2018

Characterizing the DNA Methyltransferases of Haloferax volcanii via Bioinformatics, Gen...

• Genes
• February 2018

Short branches lead to systematic artifacts when BLAST searches are used as surrogate f...

• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
• February 2017

Does Sequence Conservation Provide Evidence for Biological Function?

• Trends in Microbiology
• January 2017

Is LUCA a thermophilic progenote?

• Nature Microbiology
• November 2016

Leisingera sp. JC1, a Bacterial Isolate from Hawaiian Bobtail Squid Eggs, Produces Indi...

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• September 2016

Impact of a homing intein on recombination frequency and organismal fitness

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• July 2016

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

• Nature Reviews Genetics
• August 2015

The pan-genome as a shared genomic resource: mutual cheating, cooperation and the black...

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• July 2015

Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• April 2015

Comparative genomics of Roseobacter clade bacteria isolated from the accessory nidament...

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• February 2015

Bioinformatic Genome Comparisons for Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Assignments Using Aerom...

• mBio
• November 2014

Inteins as indicators of gene flow in the halobacteria

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• June 2014

AST: An Automated Sequence-Sampling Method for Improving the Taxonomic Diversity of Gen...

• PLoS ONE
• June 2014

Population and genomic analysis of the genus Halorubrum

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• April 2014

Evidence from phylogenetic and genome fingerprinting analyses suggests rapidly changing...

• Frontiers in Microbiology
• April 2014

Reconstructed Ancestral Myo-Inositol-3-Phosphate Synthases Indicate That Ancestors of t...

• PLoS ONE
• December 2013

The effects of model choice and mitigating bias on the ribosomal tree of life

• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
• October 2013

Distribution and Evolution of the Mobile vma-1b Intein

• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• September 2013

Thermotoga lettingae Can Salvage Cobinamide To Synthesize Vitamin B12

• Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• September 2013

Reconstruction of Ancestral 16S rRNA Reveals Mutation Bias in the Evolution of Optimal ...

• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• August 2013

Orthologues, Paralogues and Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Human Holobiont

• March 2013

Systematic inference of highways of horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes

• Bioinformatics
• January 2013

Biased Gene Transfer Contributes to Maintaining the Tree of Life

• January 2013

Pre-Posting and OLEB

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• December 2012

The impact of HGT on phylogenomic reconstruction methods

• Briefings in Bioinformatics
• August 2012

Erratum to: Molecular Evolution of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Proteins in the Early Hist...

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• August 2012

Genes for the Major Structural Components of Thermotogales Species’ Togas Revealed by P...

• PLoS ONE
• June 2012

How Bacterial Lineages Emerge

• Science
• April 2012

Ancient origin of the divergent forms of leucyl-tRNA synthetases in the Halobacteriales

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2012

Quantifying Homologous Replacement of Loci between Haloarchaeal Species

• Genome Biology and Evolution
• January 2012

Quartet decomposition server: a platform for analyzing phylogenetic trees

• BMC Bioinformatics
• January 2012

The Role of Reticulate Evolution in Creating Innovation and Complexity

• International Journal of Evolutionary Biology
• January 2012

Vitamin B12 Synthesis and Salvage Pathways Were Acquired by Horizontal Gene Transfer to...

• Genome Biology and Evolution
• January 2012

Molecular Evolution of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase Proteins in the Early History of Life

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• December 2011

Genome Sequence of Thermotoga sp. Strain RQ2, a Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Isolated fr...

• Journal of Bacteriology
• September 2011

Genome Sequence of Kosmotoga olearia Strain TBF 19.5.1, a Thermophilic Bacterium with a...

• Journal of Bacteriology
• September 2011

Multilevel populations and the evolution of antibiotic resistance through horizontal ge...

• FEMS Microbiology Reviews
• September 2011

Detecting Highways of Horizontal Gene Transfer

• Journal of Computational Biology
• September 2011

Reassessment of the Lineage Fusion Hypothesis for the Origin of Double Membrane Bacteria

• PLoS ONE
• August 2011

Biased gene transfer in microbial evolution

• Nature Reviews Microbiology
• June 2011

Complex Evolutionary History of the Aeromonas veronii Group Revealed by Host Interactio...

• PLoS ONE
• February 2011

Home and away- the evolutionary dynamics of homing endonucleases

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2011

Evolution of the archaea: emerging views on origins and phylogeny

• Research in Microbiology
• January 2011

A Rooted Net of Life

• Biology Direct
• January 2011

Biased gene transfer and its implications for the concept of lineage

• Biology Direct
• January 2011

Biased gene transfer mimics patterns created through shared ancestry

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• May 2010

Natural taxonomy in light of horizontal gene transfer

• Biology & Philosophy
• May 2010

Using comparative genome analysis to identify problems in annotated microbial genomes

• Microbiology
• April 2010

Inferring the Ancient History of the Translation Machinery and Genetic Code via Recapit...

• PLoS ONE
• March 2010

Rooting the Ribosomal Tree of Life

• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• March 2010

Bioinformatics Research and Applications

• January 2010

Detecting Highways of Horizontal Gene Transfer

• January 2010

Filling the gaps in the genomic landscape

• Genome Biology
• January 2010

Evolution of Genes and Organisms

• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• October 2009

Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: biological innovation and th...

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
• August 2009

On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermoto...

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• March 2009

Estimating the size of the bacterial pan-genome

• Trends in Genetics
• March 2009

Horizontal Gene Transfer

• January 2009

Gene Transfer: Who Benefits?

• January 2009

Ancient Gene Transfer as a Tool in Phylogenetic Reconstruction

• January 2009

Trees in the Web of Life

• Journal of Biology
• January 2009

Insertion sequence content reflects genome plasticity in strains of the root nodule act...

• BMC Genomics
• January 2009

Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

• Biology Direct
• January 2009

Conservation of intron and intein insertion sites: implications for life histories of p...

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2009

Intertwined Evolutionary Histories of Marine Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus marinus

• Genome Biology and Evolution
• January 2009

Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes

• August 2008

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER: ITS DETECTION AND ROLE IN MICROBIAL EVOLUTION

• August 2008

Orthologues, Paralogues and Xenologues in Human and Other Genomes

• March 2008

Computational Methods for Understanding Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes

• January 2008

Concerted gene recruitment in early plant evolution

• Genome Biology
• January 2008

Evolution of mal ABC transporter operons in the Thermococcales and Thermotogales

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2008

Unsupervised Learning in Detection of Gene Transfer

• Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
• January 2008

Evolution of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcina via Horizontal Gene Transfer...

• Journal of Bacteriology
• November 2007

Signature of a Primitive Genetic Code in Ancient Protein Lineages

• Journal of Molecular Evolution
• October 2007

Gene Transfer and the Reconstruction of Life’s Early History from Genomic Data

• Space Science Reviews
• October 2007

GPX: A Tool for the Exploration and Visualization of Genome Evolution

• October 2007

A hyperconserved protein in Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus

• FEMS Microbiology Letters
• September 2007

The Evolution of Eukaryotes

• Science
• April 2007

BranchClust: a phylogenetic algorithm for selecting gene families

• BMC Bioinformatics
• April 2007

Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?

• Genome Biology
• January 2007

The power of phylogenetic approaches to detect horizontally transferred genes

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2007

Unsupervised Learning in Spectral Genome Analysis

• January 2007

Structural stability and endonuclease activity of a PI-SceI GFP-fusion protein

• International Journal of Biological Sciences
• January 2007

Genome characteristics of facultatively symbiotic Frankia sp. strains reflect host rang...

• Genome Research
• December 2006

Phylogenetic analyses of cyanobacterial genomes: Quantification of horizontal gene tran...

• Genome Research
• August 2006

Orthologs, Paralogs and Xenologs in Human and Other Genomes

• July 2006

Ancient horizontal gene transfer can benefit phylogenetic reconstruction

• Trends in Genetics
• July 2006

Distribution of F- and A/V-type ATPases in Thermus scotoductus and other closely relate...

• Systematic and Applied Microbiology
• January 2006

• BMC Evolutionary Biology
• January 2006

Ancient gene duplications and the root(s) of the tree of life

• PROTOPLASMA
• December 2005

Evolutionary and Diagnostic Implications of Intragenomic Heterogeneity in the 16S rRNA ...

• Journal of Bacteriology
• September 2005

Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

• Nature Reviews Microbiology
• August 2005

The Presence of a Haloarchaeal Type Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase Marks the Opisthokonts as M...

• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• July 2005

Cladistics: A Practical Primer on CD-ROM. By Peter Skelton and Andrew Smith, with accom...

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• February 2005

Were arachnids the first to use combinatorial peptide libraries?

• Peptides
• January 2005

• BMC Bioinformatics
• January 2005

Erratum: Cladogenesis, coalescence and the evolution of the three domains of life

• Trends in Genetics
• July 2004

Genome mosaicism and organismal lineages

• Trends in Genetics
• May 2004

Cladogenesis, coalescence and the evolution of the three domains of life

• Trends in Genetics
• April 2004

• BMC Bioinformatics
• January 2004

• Genome Biology
• January 2004

Spliceosomal Introns: New Insights into their Evolution

• Current Biology
• September 2003

Evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum-likelihood mapping approach

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
• January 2003

• BMC Genomics
• January 2003

Gene Transfer: Gene Swapping Craze Reaches Eukaryotes

• Current Biology
• January 2003

Prokaryotic Evolution in Light of Gene Transfer

• Molecular Biology and Evolution
• December 2002

Whole-Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes

• Science
• November 2002

Inteins: Structure, Function, and Evolution

• Annual Review of Microbiology
• October 2002

Progenote

• January 2002

Horizontal Gene Transfer

• January 2002

• BMC Genomics
• January 2002

• BMC Plant Biology
• January 2002

• BMC Biochemistry
• January 2001

Comparing trees in a phylogenetic relationship repository

• January 2001

• BMC Biochemistry
• January 2001

Horizontal Transfer of Archaeal Genes into the Deinococcaceae: Detection by Molecular a...

• Journal of Molecular Evolution
• December 2000

Orthologs, paralogs and genome comparisons

• Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
• December 1999

Horizontal Gene Transfer: Pitfalls and Promises

• Biological Bulletin
• June 1999

Gene Transfer in Early Evolution

• January 1999

The Prokaryote-to-Eukaryote Transition Reflected in the Evolution of the V/F/A-ATPase C...

• Journal of Molecular Evolution
• June 1998

cDNA cloning of a mandibular organ inhibiting hormone from the spider crabLibinia emarg...

• Invertebrate Neuroscience
• September 1997

Dating the Cenancester of Organisms

• Science
• December 1996

Dating the Cenancester of Organisms

• Science
• December 1996

Gene duplications and horizontal gene transfer during early evolution

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• October 1996

The V-ATPase A subunit gene (vma-1 from Giardia lamblia

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
• August 1995

The effects of heavy meteorite bombardment on the early evolution — The emergence of th...

• Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres
• June 1995

The early evolution of cellular life

• Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• April 1995

A Second Cell Wall Acid Invertase Gene in Arabidopsis thaliana

• PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
• February 1995

Which is the most conserved group of proteins? Homology-orthology, paralogy, xenology, ...

• Journal of Molecular Evolution
• November 1994

Letter to the editor

• Plant Molecular Biology
• October 1993

A conserved intron in the V-ATPase A subunit genes of plants and algae

• FEBS Letters
• January 1993

Horizontal transfer of ATPase genes — the tree of life becomes a net of life

• Biosystems
• January 1993

Evolution of proton pumping ATPases: Rooting the tree of life

• Photosynthesis Research
• August 1992

Evolution of structure and function of V-ATPases

• Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
• August 1992

The Use of Antisense mRNA to Inhibit the Tonoplast H+ ATPase in Carrot

• The Plant Cell
• July 1992

Tracing origins with molecular sequences: rooting the universal tree of life

• Trends in Biochemical Sciences
• January 1991

Evolution of the vacuolar H+-ATPase: implications for the origin of eukaryotes.

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• September 1989

The H+ ATPase regulatory subunit of Methanococcus thermolithotrophicus : Amplification...

• FEBS Letters
• July 1989

Substrate specifity of the hexose carrier in the plasmalemma of Chenopodium suspension ...

• Planta
• January 1989

The electrogenic proton/hexose carrier in the plasmalemma of Chenopodium rubrum suspens...

• Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
• January 1989

Sugar nucleotides dissipate ATP-generated transmembrane pH gradient in Golgi vesicles f...

• Planta
• June 1988

Physical properties of the cell wall of photoautotrophic suspension cells fromChenopodi...

• Planta
• June 1988

ATP-dependent acidification and tonoplast hyperpolarization in isolated vacuoles from g...

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• April 1986

Lateral electrophoresis versus 2D-diffusion

• Trends in Biochemical Sciences
• December 1985

A Patch Clamp Study of Tonoplast Electrical Properties in Vacuoles Isolated from Chenop...

• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
• October 1985

Kinetics and Specificity of ATP-dependent Proton Translocation Measured with Acridine O...

• Journal of Plant Physiology
• March 1985

Phlorizin inhibits hexose transport across the plasmalemma of Riccia fluitans

• Planta
• April 1983

Fluxes and compartmentation of 3-O-methyl-D-glucose in Riccia fluitans

• Planta
• January 1983

What’s in a Tree?

Horizontal gene transfer, gene histories, and the root of the tree of life

Gene Transfer and the Reconstruction of Life’s Early History from Genomic Data

II.11. Evolution in the Prokaryotic Grade