Early Microbial Evolution

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Publications

Phylogenetic analyses with systematic taxon sampling show that mitochondria branch within Alphaproteobacteria

Author(s): Lu Fan, Dingfeng Wu, Vadim Goremykin, Jing Xiao, Yanbing Xu, Sriram Garg, Chuanlun Zhang, William F. Martin, Ruixin Zhu
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 4/9, 2020, Page(s) 1213-1219, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1239-x

A spectrum of verticality across genes

Author(s): Falk S. P. Nagies, Julia Brueckner, Fernando D. K. Tria, William F. Martin
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 16/11, 2020, Page(s) e1009200, ISSN 1553-7404
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009200

Older Than Genes: The Acetyl CoA Pathway and Origins

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 21, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00817

On Being the Right Size as an Animal with Plastids

Author(s): Cessa Rauch, Peter Jahns, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Sven B. Gould, William F. Martin
Published in: Frontiers in Plant Science, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 1402, ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S. A.
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01402

Failure to Recover Major Events of Gene Flux in Real Biological Data Due to Method Misapplication

Author(s): Nils Kapust, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Barbara Schönfeld, Einat Hazkani-Covo, David Bryant, Peter J Lockhart, Mayo Röttger, Joana C Xavier, William F Martin
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 10/5, 2018, Page(s) 1198-1209, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evy080

Eukaryote lateral gene transfer is Lamarckian

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 2/5, 2018, Page(s) 754-754, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0521-7

A physiological perspective on the origin and evolution of photosynthesis

Author(s): William F Martin, Donald A Bryant, J Thomas Beatty
Published in: FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Issue 42/2, 2017, Page(s) 205-231, ISSN 1574-6976
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fux056

Native metals, electron bifurcation, and CO 2 reduction in early biochemical evolution

Author(s): Filipa L Sousa, Martina Preiner, William F Martin
Published in: Current Opinion in Microbiology, Issue 43, 2018, Page(s) 77-83, ISSN 1369-5274
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.12.010

Too Much Eukaryote LGT

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: BioEssays, Issue 39/12, 2017, Page(s) 1700115, ISSN 0265-9247
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700115

Protein Import and the Origin of Red Complex Plastids

Author(s): Sven B. Gould, Uwe-G. Maier, William F. Martin
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 25/12, 2015, Page(s) R515-R521, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.033

Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

Author(s): Chuan Ku, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Mayo Roettger, Sriram Garg, Einat Hazkani-Covo, William F. Martin
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 112/33, 2015, Page(s) 10139-10146, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421385112

Autocatalytic sets in E. coli metabolism

Author(s): Filipa L Sousa, Wim Hordijk, Mike Steel, William F Martin
Published in: Journal of Systems Chemistry, Issue 6/1, 2015, ISSN 1759-2208
Publisher: Chemistry Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13322-015-0009-7

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

Author(s): Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Filipa L. Sousa, Mayo Roettger, Nabor Lozada-Chávez, Thorsten Thiergart, Arnold Janssen, David Bryant, Giddy Landan, Peter Schönheit, Bettina Siebers, James O. McInerney, William F. Martin
Published in: Nature, Issue 517/7532, 2015, Page(s) 77-80, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature13805

Unmiraculous facultative anaerobes (comment on DOI 10.1002/bies.201600174)

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: BioEssays, Issue 39/6, 2017, Page(s) 1700041, ISSN 0265-9247
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700041

Energy for two: New archaeal lineages and the origin of mitochondria

Author(s): William F. Martin, Sinje Neukirchen, Verena Zimorski, Sven B. Gould, Filipa L. Sousa
Published in: BioEssays, Issue 38/9, 2016, Page(s) 850-856, ISSN 0265-9247
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600089

The Origin of a Killer Revealed by Bronze Age Yersinia Genomes

Author(s): Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, William F. Martin
Published in: Cell Host & Microbe, Issue 18/5, 2015, Page(s) 513-514, ISSN 1931-3128
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.10.016

The Ribofilm as a Concept for Life’s Origins

Author(s): John A. Baross, William F. Martin
Published in: Cell, Issue 162/1, 2015, Page(s) 13-15, ISSN 0092-8674
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.038

Lipids Are the Preferred Substrate of the Protist Naegleria gruberi, Relative of a Human Brain Pathogen

Author(s): Michiel L. Bexkens, Verena Zimorski, Maarten J. Sarink, Hans Wienk, Jos F. Brouwers, Johan F. De Jonckheere, William F. Martin, Fred R. Opperdoes, Jaap J. van Hellemond, Aloysius G.M. Tielens
Published in: Cell Reports, Issue 25/3, 2018, Page(s) 537-543.e3, ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.09.055

Elusive data underlying debate at the prokaryote-eukaryote divide

Author(s): Marie Gerlitz, Michael Knopp, Nils Kapust, Joana C. Xavier, William F. Martin
Published in: Biology Direct, Issue 13/1, 2018, ISSN 1745-6150
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13062-018-0221-x

Serpentinization: Connecting Geochemistry, Ancient Metabolism and Industrial Hydrogenation

Author(s): Martina Preiner, Joana Xavier, Filipa Sousa, Verena Zimorski, Anna Neubeck, Susan Lang, H. Greenwell, Karl Kleinermanns, Harun Tüysüz, Tom McCollom, Nils Holm, William Martin
Published in: Life, Issue 8/4, 2018, Page(s) 41, ISSN 2075-1729
Publisher: Licensee MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/life8040041

The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics

Author(s): Madeline C. Weiss, Martina Preiner, Joana C. Xavier, Verena Zimorski, William F. Martin
Published in: PLOS Genetics, Issue 14/8, 2018, Page(s) e1007518, ISSN 1553-7404
Publisher: Public Library of Science (United States)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007518

Something special about CO-dependent CO 2 fixation

Author(s): Joana C. Xavier, Martina Preiner, William F. Martin
Published in: The FEBS Journal, Issue 285/22, 2018, Page(s) 4181-4195, ISSN 1742-464X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/febs.14664

Origin and phylogenetic relationships of [4Fe–4S]‐containing O 2 sensors of bacteria

Author(s): C. Barth, M. C. Weiss, M. Roettger, W. F. Martin, G. Unden
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 20/12, 2018, Page(s) 4567-4586, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14411

Mosaic mitochondrial-plastid insertions into the nuclear genome show evidence of both non-homologous end joining and homologous recombination

Author(s): Shir Portugez, William F. Martin, Einat Hazkani-Covo
Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology, Issue 18/1, 2018, ISSN 1471-2148
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1279-x

Oxygen Reductases in Alphaproteobacterial Genomes: Physiological Evolution From Low to High Oxygen Environments

Author(s): Mauro Degli Esposti, Marek Mentel, William Martin, Filipa L. Sousa
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 10, 2019, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00499

Energy metabolism in anaerobic eukaryotes and Earth's late oxygenation

Author(s): Verena Zimorski, Marek Mentel, Aloysius G.M. Tielens, William F. Martin
Published in: Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Issue 140, 2019, Page(s) 279-294, ISSN 0891-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2019.03.030

Archaeal Histone Contributions to the Origin of Eukaryotes

Author(s): Clifford F. Brunk, William F. Martin
Published in: Trends in Microbiology, Issue 27/8, 2019, Page(s) 703-714, ISSN 0966-842X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.04.002

Carbon–Metal Bonds: Rare and Primordial in Metabolism

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Issue 44/9, 2019, Page(s) 807-818, ISSN 0968-0004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2019.04.010

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

Author(s): S. B. Gould, S. G. Garg, M. Handrich, S. Nelson-Sathi, N. Gruenheit, A. G. M. Tielens, W. F. Martin
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 286/1909, 2019, Page(s) 20191491, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1491

Nitrogenase Inhibition Limited Oxygenation of Earth’s Proterozoic Atmosphere

Author(s): John F. Allen, Brenda Thake, William F. Martin
Published in: Trends in Plant Science, Issue 24/11, 2019, Page(s) 1022-1031, ISSN 1360-1385
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.07.007

Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism

Author(s): Martina Preiner, Joana C. Xavier, Andrey do Nascimento Vieira, Karl Kleinermanns, John F. Allen, William F. Martin
Published in: Interface Focus, Issue 9/6, 2019, Page(s) 20190072, ISSN 2042-8898
Publisher: Royal Society Publishing
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0072

A hydrogen-dependent geochemical analogue of primordial carbon and energy metabolism

Author(s): Martina Preiner, Kensuke Igarashi, Kamila B. Muchowska, Mingquan Yu, Sreejith J. Varma, Karl Kleinermanns, Masaru K. Nobu, Yoichi Kamagata, Harun Tüysüz, Joseph Moran, William F. Martin
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 4/4, 2020, Page(s) 534-542, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1125-6

Bacterial Genes Outnumber Archaeal Genes in Eukaryotic Genomes

Author(s): Julia Brueckner, William F Martin
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 12/4, 2020, Page(s) 282-292, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa047

Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism

Author(s): Joana C. Xavier, Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman, Mike Steel, William F. Martin
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 287/1922, 2020, Page(s) 20192377, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2377

The ambivalent role of water at the origins of life

Author(s): Andrey Nascimento Vieira, Karl Kleinermanns, William F. Martin, Martina Preiner
Published in: FEBS Letters, 2020, ISSN 0014-5793
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13815

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

Author(s): Chuan Ku, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Mayo Roettger, Filipa L. Sousa, Peter J. Lockhart, David Bryant, Einat Hazkani-Covo, James O. McInerney, Giddy Landan, William F. Martin
Published in: Nature, Issue 524/7566, 2015, Page(s) 427-432, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature14963

The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

Author(s): William F. Martin, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Marek Mentel, Sriram G. Garg, Sven B. Gould
Published in: Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Issue 81/3, 2017, Page(s) e00008-17, ISSN 1092-2172
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00008-17

Quantifying the number of independent organelle DNA insertions in genome evolution and human health

Author(s): Einat Hazkani-Covo, William F. Martin
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 9, 2017, Page(s) 1190–1203, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx078

Bacterial Vesicle Secretion and the Evolutionary Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System

Author(s): Sven B. Gould, Sriram G. Garg, William F. Martin
Published in: Trends in Microbiology, Issue 24/7, 2016, Page(s) 525-534, ISSN 0966-842X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.03.005

A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule

Author(s): Chuan Ku, William F. Martin
Published in: BMC Biology, Issue 14/1, 2016, ISSN 1741-7007
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12915-016-0315-9

Endosymbiotic theories for eukaryote origin

Author(s): William F. Martin, Sriram Garg, Verena Zimorski
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 370/1678, 2015, Page(s) 20140330, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0330

Lokiarchaeon is hydrogen dependent

Author(s): Filipa L. Sousa, Sinje Neukirchen, John F. Allen, Nick Lane, William F. Martin
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 1/5, 2016, Page(s) 16034, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.34

Late Mitochondrial Origin Is an Artifact

Author(s): William F. Martin, Mayo Roettger, Chuan Ku, Sriram G. Garg, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Giddy Landan
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 9/2, 2017, Page(s) 373-379, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx027

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

Author(s): Sriram Garg, Jan Stölting, Verena Zimorski, Petr Rada, Jan Tachezy, William F. Martin, Sven B. Gould
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 7/9, 2015, Page(s) 2716-2726, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv175

Mitochondria, the Cell Cycle, and the Origin of Sex via a Syncytial Eukaryote Common Ancestor

Author(s): Sriram G. Garg, William F. Martin
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 8/6, 2016, Page(s) 1950-1970, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw136

One step beyond a ribosome: The ancient anaerobic core

Author(s): Filipa L. Sousa, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, William F. Martin
Published in: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, Issue 1857/8, 2016, Page(s) 1027-1038, ISSN 0005-2728
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.04.284

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

Author(s): Madeline C. Weiss, Filipa L. Sousa, Natalia Mrnjavac, Sinje Neukirchen, Mayo Roettger, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, William F. Martin
Published in: Nature Microbiology, Issue 1/9, 2016, Page(s) 16116, ISSN 2058-5276
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature.
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.116

Early Microbial Evolution: The Age of Anaerobes

Author(s): William F. Martin, Filipa L. Sousa
Published in: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, Issue 8/2, 2016, Page(s) a018127, ISSN 1943-0264
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a018127

Physiology, phylogeny, early evolution, and GAPDH

Author(s): William F. Martin, Rüdiger Cerff
Published in: Protoplasma, Issue 254, 2017, Page(s) 1823–1834, ISSN 0033-183X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-017-1095-y

Anomalous phylogenetic behavior of ribosomal proteins in metagenome assembled asgard archaea

Author(s): Sriram G Garg, Nils Kapust, Weili Lin, Michael Knopp, Fernando D K Tria, Shijulal Nelson-Sathi, Sven B Gould, Lu Fan, Ruixin Zhu, Chuanlun Zhang, William F Martin
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, 2020, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa238

Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

Author(s): Stephen C. Cunnane, Eugenia Trushina, Cecilie Morland, Alessandro Prigione, Gemma Casadesus, Zane B. Andrews, M. Flint Beal, Linda H. Bergersen, Roberta D. Brinton, Suzanne de la Monte, Anne Eckert, Jenni Harvey, Ross Jeggo, Jack H. Jhamandas, Oliver Kann, Clothide Mannoury la Cour, William F. Martin, Gilles Mithieux, Paula I. Moreira, Michael P. Murphy, Klaus-Armin Nave, Tal Nuriel, Stéphane H.
Published in: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Issue 19/9, 2020, Page(s) 609-633, ISSN 1474-1776
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41573-020-0072-x

Gene duplications trace mitochondria to the onset of eukaryote complexity

Author(s): Fernando D. K. Tria; Julia Brückner; Josip Skejo; Joana C. Xavier; Verena Zimorski; Sven B. Gould; Sriram G. Garg; William F. Martin
Published in: biorxiv, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
DOI: 10.1101/781211

The theory of two plasma lineages as the basis of symbiogenesis, a new principle for the origin of organisms

Author(s): Klaus V.Kowallik, William F.Martin
Published in: Biosystems, Issue 104281, 2020, ISSN 0303-2647
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104281

Symbiogenesis, gradualism, and mitochondrial energy in eukaryote origin

Author(s): William Martin
Published in: Periodicum Biologorum, Issue 119/3, 2017, Page(s) 141-158, ISSN 0031-5362
Publisher: Hrvatsko Prirodoslovno Drustvo/Croation Society of Natural Sciences
DOI: 10.18054/pb.v119i3.5694

Asking endosymbionts to do an enzyme’s job

Author(s): Sriram G. Garg, William F. Martin
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 115/20, 2018, Page(s) E4543-E4544, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1804397115

Why Have Organelles Retained Genomes?

Author(s): John F. Allen, William F. Martin
Published in: Cell Systems, Issue 2/2, 2016, Page(s) 70-72, ISSN 2405-4712
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2016.02.007

Physiology, phylogeny, and the energetic roots of life

Author(s): William F. Martin
Published in: Periodicum Biologorum, Issue 118/4, 2017, ISSN 0031-5362
Publisher: Hrvatsko Prirodoslovno Drustvo/Croation Society of Natural Sciences
DOI: 10.18054/pb.v118i4.4737

Endosymbiotic Theory

Author(s): S. Garg, V. Zimorski, W.F. Martin
Published in: The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 1, 2016, Page(s) 511-517
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800049-6.00191-8

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