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  1. Alternative splicing of a TPR domain determines mitochondrial versus plastid function of the only CLU family protein in Marchantia polymorpha

    Article • March 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Sven B Gould

  2. SWI3 regulates male sex determination in Marchantia polymorpha

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  3. Evolutionary refinement of mitochondrial and plastid targeting sequences coincides with the late diversification of land plants

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, September 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  4. Evolutionary refinement of mitochondrial and plastid targeting sequences coincides with the late diversification of land plants

    Article • March 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  5. Reliability of plastid and mitochondrial localisation prediction declines rapidly with the evolutionary distance to the training set increasing

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, November 2024, PLOS

    Dr Sven B Gould

  6. A molecular atlas of plastid and mitochondrial proteins reveals organellar remodeling during plant evolutionary transitions from algae to angiosperms

    Article • PLoS Biology, May 2024, PLOS

    Dr Sven B Gould

  7. Performance of localization prediction algorithms decreases rapidly with the evolutionary distance to the training set increasing

    Article • December 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  8. A molecular atlas of plastid and mitochondrial evolution from algae to angiosperms

    Article • September 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  9. Mitochondrial evolution: Gene shuffling, endosymbiosis, and signaling

    Article • Science Advances, August 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Sven B Gould

  10. A mysterious cloak: the peptidoglycan layer of algal and plant plastids

    Article • May 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  11. Hemi Manganese Exchangers 1 and 2 enable manganese import at the plasma membrane in cyanobacteria

    Article • February 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  12. Endosymbiotic selective pressure at the origin of eukaryotic cell biology

    Article • eLife, November 2022, eLife

    Dr Sven B Gould

  13. The greening ashore

    Article • Trends in Plant Science, September 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  14. An overview of bioinformatics, genomics, and transcriptomics resources for bryophytes

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, February 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  15. Loss of plastid developmental genes coincides with a reversion to monoplastidy in hornworts

    Article • January 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  16. Signatures of Transcription Factor Evolution and the Secondary Gain of Red Algae Complexity

    Article • Genes, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Sven B Gould

  17. Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  18. Evidence for a Syncytial Origin of Eukaryotes from Ancestral State Reconstruction

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, May 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  19. The asgardarchaeal-unique contribution to protein families of the eukaryotic common ancestor was 0.3%

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  20. Genetic autonomy and low singlet oxygen yield support kleptoplast functionality in photosynthetic sea slugs

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  21. Anomalous Phylogenetic Behavior of Ribosomal Proteins in Metagenome-Assembled Asgard Archaea

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, November 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  22. More than just a ticket canceller: The mitochondrial processing peptidase matures complex precursor proteins at internal cleavage sites

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  23. Adaptation to life on land at high O 2 via transition from ferredoxin-to NADH-dependent redox balance

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, August 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sven B Gould

  24. Anomalous phylogenetic behavior of ribosomal proteins in metagenome assembled genomes

    Article • August 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  25. On plant defense signaling networks and early land plant evolution

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  26. Intermediate filament protein evolution and protists

    Article • Cytoskeleton, April 2018, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  27. The ability to incorporate functional plastids by the sea slug Elysia viridis is governed by its food source

    Article • Marine Biology, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould

  28. Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  29. The monoplastidic bottleneck in algae and plant evolution

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, September 2017, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  30. The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

    Article • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, June 2017, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  31. The monoplastidic bottleneck in algae and plant evolution

    Article • February 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Sven B Gould

  32. Algal endosymbionts in European Hydra strains reflect multiple origins of the zoochlorella symbiosis

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  33. N-Terminal Presequence-Independent Import of Phosphofructokinase into Hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, October 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  34. Cytokinin-induced promotion of root meristem size in the fernAzollasupports a shoot-like origin of euphyllophyte roots

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Jan de Vries, Dr Sven B Gould

  35. Conservation of Transit Peptide-Independent Protein Import into the Mitochondrial and Hydrogenosomal Matrix

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  36. Why It Is Time to Look Beyond Algal Genes in Photosynthetic Slugs

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, August 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  37. Protein Import and the Origin of Red Complex Plastids

    Article • Current Biology, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  38. TetrahymenaExpresses More than a Hundred Proteins with Lipid-binding MORN Motifs that can Differ in their Subcellular Localisations

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, April 2015, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  39. YCF1: A Green TIC?

    Article • The Plant Cell, March 2015, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  40. Comparison of sister species identifies factors underpinning plastid compatibility in green sea slugs

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  41. Endosymbiotic theory for organelle origins

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould, Chuan Ku

  42. The biology of Trichomonas vaginalis in the light of urogenital tract infection

    Article • Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  43. Plastid survival in the cytosol of animal cells

    Article • Trends in Plant Science, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  44. Functional kleptoplasty in a limapontioidean genus: phylogeny, food preferences and photosynthesis in Costasiella , with a focus on C. ocellifera (Gastropoda: Sacoglossa)

    Article • Journal of Molluscan Studies, May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  45. Switching off photosynthesis

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  46. Chloroplast incorporation and long-term photosynthetic performance through the life cycle in laboratory cultures of Elysia timida (Sacoglossa, Heterobranchia)

    Article • Frontiers in Zoology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould

  47. A sea slug’s guide to plastid symbiosis

    Article • Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, January 2014, Polish Botanical Society

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  48. The parasite Trichomonas vaginalis expresses thousands of pseudogenes and long non-coding RNAs independently from functional neighbouring genes

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould

  49. Is ftsH the Key to Plastid Longevity in Sacoglossan Slugs?

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, December 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould, Dr Jan de Vries

  50. Plastid-bearing sea slugs fix CO2 in the light but do not require photosynthesis to survive

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Sven B Gould

  51. Deep sequencing of Trichomonas vaginalis during the early infection of vaginal epithelial cells and amoeboid transition

    Article • International Journal for Parasitology, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  52. Characterization of Tt ALV2, an Essential Charged Repeat Motif Protein of the Tetrahymena thermophila Membrane Skeleton

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, April 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  53. The actin-based machinery ofTrichomonas vaginalismediates flagellate-amoeboid transition and migration across host tissue

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  54. Knockout of the abundant Trichomonas vaginalis hydrogenosomal membrane protein Tv HMP23 increases hydrogenosome size but induces no compensatory up-regulation of paralogous copies

    Article • FEBS Letters, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  55. Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  56. The N-Terminal Sequences of Four Major Hydrogenosomal Proteins Are Not Essential for Import into Hydrogenosomes of Trichomonas vaginalis

    Article • Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  57. Algae's complex origins

    Article • Nature, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould

  58. Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

    Article • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, June 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  59. A Machine Learning Approach To Identify Hydrogenosomal Proteins in Trichomonas vaginalis

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, December 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  60. Red and Problematic Green Phylogenetic Signals among Thousands of Nuclear Genes from the Photosynthetic and Apicomplexa-Related Chromera velia

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  61. Ciliate Pellicular Proteome Identifies Novel Protein Families with Characteristic Repeat Motifs That Are Common to Alveolates

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  62. Transcriptomic Evidence That Longevity of Acquired Plastids in the Photosynthetic Slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus Does Not Entail Lateral Transfer of Algal Nuclear Genes

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, September 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  63. A Novel Family of Apicomplexan Glideosome-associated Proteins with an Inner Membrane-anchoring Role

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2009, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  64. Plastid Evolution

    Article • Annual Review of Plant Biology, June 2008, Annual Reviews

    Dr Sven B Gould

  65. A Malaria Parasite Formin Regulates Actin Polymerization and Localizes to the Parasite-Erythrocyte Moving Junction during Invasion

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, March 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould

  66. ARIADNE’S THREAD: GUIDING A PROTEIN ACROSS FIVE MEMBRANES IN CRYPTOPHYTES

    Article • Journal of Phycology, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Sven B Gould

  67. Alveolins, a New Family of Cortical Proteins that Define the Protist Infrakingdom Alveolata

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  68. Translocation of a Phycoerythrin   Subunit across Five Biological Membranes

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, August 2007, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  69. Protein targeting into complex diatom plastids: functional characterisation of a specific targeting motif

    Article • Plant Molecular Biology, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould

  70. Der1-mediated Preprotein Import into the Periplastid Compartment of Chromalveolates?

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  71. Nucleus-to-Nucleus Gene Transfer and Protein Retargeting into a Remnant Cytoplasm of Cryptophytes and Diatoms

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, August 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Sven B Gould

  72. Nature of the Periplastidial Pathway of Starch Synthesis in the Cryptophyte Guillardia theta

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, June 2006, ASM Journals

    Dr Sven B Gould

  73. Protein Targeting into the Complex Plastid of Cryptophytes

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sven B Gould