Published in Curr Opin Microbiol on October 01, 2005
Clusters of orthologous genes for 41 archaeal genomes and implications for evolutionary genomics of archaea. Biol Direct (2007) 2.53
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Phylogenomic analysis of proteins that are distinctive of Archaea and its main subgroups and the origin of methanogenesis. BMC Genomics (2007) 1.06
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Some bacteria degrade explosives, others prefer boiling methanol. Environ Microbiol (2007) 0.81
Many nonuniversal archaeal ribosomal proteins are found in conserved gene clusters. Archaea (2009) 0.81
Characterization of an ATP-dependent DNA ligase from the acidophilic archaeon "Ferroplasma acidarmanus" Fer1. Extremophiles (2006) 0.80
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The fundamental tradeoff in genomes and proteomes of prokaryotes established by the genetic code, codon entropy, and physics of nucleic acids and proteins. Biol Direct (2014) 0.76
The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes. BMC Bioinformatics (2003) 60.98
Small CRISPR RNAs guide antiviral defense in prokaryotes. Science (2008) 17.79
Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems. Nat Rev Microbiol (2011) 17.11
De-ubiquitination and ubiquitin ligase domains of A20 downregulate NF-kappaB signalling. Nature (2004) 12.41
A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action. Biol Direct (2006) 11.31
Role of Rpn11 metalloprotease in deubiquitination and degradation by the 26S proteasome. Science (2002) 7.49
Orthology, paralogy and proposed classification for paralog subtypes. Trends Genet (2002) 7.25
Classification and evolution of P-loop GTPases and related ATPases. J Mol Biol (2002) 6.85
The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex. Science (2011) 6.55
Essential genes are more evolutionarily conserved than are nonessential genes in bacteria. Genome Res (2002) 6.08
Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell (2015) 5.97
Regeneration of peroxiredoxins by p53-regulated sestrins, homologs of bacterial AhpD. Science (2004) 5.88
Selection in the evolution of gene duplications. Genome Biol (2002) 5.58
Role of predicted metalloprotease motif of Jab1/Csn5 in cleavage of Nedd8 from Cul1. Science (2002) 4.95
Algorithms for computing parsimonious evolutionary scenarios for genome evolution, the last universal common ancestor and dominance of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of prokaryotes. BMC Evol Biol (2003) 4.70
Evolutionary history and higher order classification of AAA+ ATPases. J Struct Biol (2004) 4.68
Evolutionary genomics of nucleo-cytoplasmic large DNA viruses. Virus Res (2006) 4.49
A DNA repair system specific for thermophilic Archaea and bacteria predicted by genomic context analysis. Nucleic Acids Res (2002) 4.39
Origin of a substantial fraction of human regulatory sequences from transposable elements. Trends Genet (2003) 4.39
The role of lineage-specific gene family expansion in the evolution of eukaryotes. Genome Res (2002) 4.28
Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes. Nat Genet (2002) 4.04
Comparative genomics and evolution of proteins involved in RNA metabolism. Nucleic Acids Res (2002) 4.00
Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems. Biol Direct (2011) 3.92
Gene loss, protein sequence divergence, gene dispensability, expression level, and interactivity are correlated in eukaryotic evolution. Genome Res (2003) 3.90
Genome trees and the tree of life. Trends Genet (2002) 3.79
The complete genome of hyperthermophile Methanopyrus kandleri AV19 and monophyly of archaeal methanogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 3.72
Remarkable interkingdom conservation of intron positions and massive, lineage-specific intron loss and gain in eukaryotic evolution. Curr Biol (2003) 3.72
Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 3.55
'Conserved hypothetical' proteins: prioritization of targets for experimental study. Nucleic Acids Res (2004) 3.50
Long intervals of stasis punctuated by bursts of positive selection in the seasonal evolution of influenza A virus. Biol Direct (2006) 3.18
Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes. Biol Direct (2009) 3.17
Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization. Nature (2006) 3.16
One-component systems dominate signal transduction in prokaryotes. Trends Microbiol (2005) 3.09
No simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions: only the most prolific interactors tend to evolve slowly. BMC Evol Biol (2003) 3.07
A novel family of sequence-specific endoribonucleases associated with the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. J Biol Chem (2008) 3.00
A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution. Nature (2005) 2.81
Conservation and coevolution in the scale-free human gene coexpression network. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 2.78
A dual function of the CRISPR-Cas system in bacterial antivirus immunity and DNA repair. Mol Microbiol (2010) 2.70
Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest. J Biol (2009) 2.66
Comparative genomics, evolution and origins of the nuclear envelope and nuclear pore complex. Cell Cycle (2004) 2.65
Comparative genomics of the FtsK-HerA superfamily of pumping ATPases: implications for the origins of chromosome segregation, cell division and viral capsid packaging. Nucleic Acids Res (2004) 2.62
Taking the first steps towards a standard for reporting on phylogenies: Minimum Information About a Phylogenetic Analysis (MIAPA). OMICS (2006) 2.57
Clusters of orthologous genes for 41 archaeal genomes and implications for evolutionary genomics of archaea. Biol Direct (2007) 2.53
Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.52
Transcriptome dynamics of Deinococcus radiodurans recovering from ionizing radiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 2.52
Evolution and classification of P-loop kinases and related proteins. J Mol Biol (2003) 2.52
The universal distribution of evolutionary rates of genes and distinct characteristics of eukaryotic genes of different apparent ages. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.50
Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: structural insights and new members. Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 2.49
Coelomata and not Ecdysozoa: evidence from genome-wide phylogenetic analysis. Genome Res (2004) 2.42
New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics. Trends Microbiol (2009) 2.41
A common framework for understanding the origin of genetic dominance and evolutionary fates of gene duplications. Trends Genet (2004) 2.40
Phylogeny of Cas9 determines functional exchangeability of dual-RNA and Cas9 among orthologous type II CRISPR-Cas systems. Nucleic Acids Res (2013) 2.35
Connected gene neighborhoods in prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Res (2002) 2.35
Comparative genomic analysis of archaeal genotypic variants in a single population and in two different oceanic provinces. Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 2.24
Complete pathway for protein disulfide bond formation encoded by poxviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.19
A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.16
Computational methods for Gene Orthology inference. Brief Bioinform (2011) 2.16
Origins and evolution of eukaryotic RNA interference. Trends Ecol Evol (2008) 2.15
Dimeric dUTPases, HisE, and MazG belong to a new superfamily of all-alpha NTP pyrophosphohydrolases with potential "house-cleaning" functions. J Mol Biol (2005) 2.14
Eukaryotic large nucleo-cytoplasmic DNA viruses: clusters of orthologous genes and reconstruction of viral genome evolution. Virol J (2009) 2.13
The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.11
Genome-wide analysis of substrate specificities of the Escherichia coli haloacid dehalogenase-like phosphatase family. J Biol Chem (2006) 2.10
STAND, a class of P-loop NTPases including animal and plant regulators of programmed cell death: multiple, complex domain architectures, unusual phyletic patterns, and evolution by horizontal gene transfer. J Mol Biol (2004) 2.10
Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology. Nat Rev Genet (2013) 2.07
Three distinct modes of intron dynamics in the evolution of eukaryotes. Genome Res (2007) 2.06
Evolutionary significance of gene expression divergence. Gene (2004) 2.04
Kinase activity of overexpressed HipA is required for growth arrest and multidrug tolerance in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol (2006) 2.04
Evolutionary genomics of archaeal viruses: unique viral genomes in the third domain of life. Virus Res (2006) 2.02
Classification and evolutionary history of the single-strand annealing proteins, RecT, Redbeta, ERF and RAD52. BMC Genomics (2002) 1.99
Provirophages and transpovirons as the diverse mobilome of giant viruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.96
The relationship of protein conservation and sequence length. BMC Evol Biol (2002) 1.95
Myosin XI-K Is required for rapid trafficking of Golgi stacks, peroxisomes, and mitochondria in leaf cells of Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Physiol (2008) 1.95
Microevolutionary genomics of bacteria. Theor Popul Biol (2002) 1.95
Duplicated genes evolve slower than singletons despite the initial rate increase. BMC Evol Biol (2004) 1.95
SPOUT: a class of methyltransferases that includes spoU and trmD RNA methylase superfamilies, and novel superfamilies of predicted prokaryotic RNA methylases. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol (2002) 1.95
Abundance of type I toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria: searches for new candidates and discovery of novel families. Nucleic Acids Res (2010) 1.93
GINS, a central nexus in the archaeal DNA replication fork. EMBO Rep (2006) 1.91
The deep archaeal roots of eukaryotes. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 1.90
Analysis of evolution of exon-intron structure of eukaryotic genes. Brief Bioinform (2005) 1.89
Birth and death of protein domains: a simple model of evolution explains power law behavior. BMC Evol Biol (2002) 1.86
Evolutionary genomics of lactic acid bacteria. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.84
Phylogenomics of prokaryotic ribosomal proteins. PLoS One (2012) 1.82
Evolution of protein domain promiscuity in eukaryotes. Genome Res (2008) 1.82
Comparative genomics of defense systems in archaea and bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res (2013) 1.82
Trends in protein evolution inferred from sequence and structure analysis. Curr Opin Struct Biol (2002) 1.81
Evolutionary connection between the catalytic subunits of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases and eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and the origin of RNA polymerases. BMC Struct Biol (2003) 1.80
Evolution of alternative splicing: deletions, insertions and origin of functional parts of proteins from intron sequences. Trends Genet (2003) 1.80
Trends in prokaryotic evolution revealed by comparison of closely related bacterial and archaeal genomes. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.79
Complete genome sequence of the extremely acidophilic methanotroph isolate V4, Methylacidiphilum infernorum, a representative of the bacterial phylum Verrucomicrobia. Biol Direct (2008) 1.78
Ancestral paralogs and pseudoparalogs and their role in the emergence of the eukaryotic cell. Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 1.77
Planctomycetes and eukaryotes: a case of analogy not homology. Bioessays (2011) 1.76
Phylogenomic analysis of the Giardia intestinalis transcarboxylase reveals multiple instances of domain fusion and fission in the evolution of biotin-dependent enzymes. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol (2003) 1.76
Insights into archaeal evolution and symbiosis from the genomes of a nanoarchaeon and its inferred crenarchaeal host from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park. Biol Direct (2013) 1.75
Purifying and directional selection in overlapping prokaryotic genes. Trends Genet (2002) 1.74
Biological applications of the theory of birth-and-death processes. Brief Bioinform (2006) 1.68
A low-polynomial algorithm for assembling clusters of orthologous groups from intergenomic symmetric best matches. Bioinformatics (2010) 1.67
Conservation versus parallel gains in intron evolution. Nucleic Acids Res (2005) 1.67
Monophyly of class I aminoacyl tRNA synthetase, USPA, ETFP, photolyase, and PP-ATPase nucleotide-binding domains: implications for protein evolution in the RNA. Proteins (2002) 1.67