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REFERENCE LIST
COI Diversity in Other Kingdoms of Life - Protista

Antaramian A, Coria R, Ramirez J, Gonzalez-Halphen D 1996. The deduced primary structure of subunit I from cytochrome c oxidase suggests that the genus Polytomella shares a common mitochondrial origin with Chlamydomonas. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1273: 198-202

Bhattacharya D, Surek B, Rusing M, Damberger S, Melkonian M 1994. Group I introns are inherited through common ancestry in the nuclear-encoded rRNA of Zygnematales (Charophyceae). Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91: 9916-9920

Burger G, Plante I, Lonergan KM, Gray MW 1995. The mitochondrial DNA of the amoeboid protozoon, Acanthamoeba castellani: complete sequence, gene content and genome organization . Journal of Molecular Biology 245: 522-537

Burger G, Saint-Louis D, Gray MW, Lang BF 1999. Complete sequence of the mitochondrial DNA of the red alga Porphyra purpurea: cyanobacterial introns and shared ancestry of red and green algae. The Plant Cell 11: 1675-1694

Davila-Aponte JA, Huss VAR, Sogin ML, Cech TR 1991. A self-splicing group I intron in the nuclear pre-rRNA of the green alga, Ankistrodesmus stipitatus. Nucleic Acids Research 19: 4429-4436

Ehara M, Hayashi-Ishimaru Y, Inagaki Y, Ohama T 1997. Use of a deviant mitochondrial genetic code in yellow-green algae as a landmark for segregating within the phylum. Journal of Molecular Evolution 45: 119-124

Ehara M, Inagaki Y, Watanabe KI, Ohama T 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of diatom coxI genes and implications of a fluctuating GC content on mitochondrial genetic code evolution. Current Genetics 37: 29-33

Ehara M, Watanabe KI 1998. Distrubution of the mitochondrial deviant genetic code AUA for methionine in heterkont algae. Journal of Physiology 34: 1005-1008

Ehara M, Watanabe KI, Ohama T 2000. Distribution of cognates of group II introns detected in mitochondrial coxI genes of a diatom and haptophyte. Gene 256: 157-167

Fontaine JM, Goux D, Kloareg B, Goer SL 1997. The reverse-transcriptase-like proteins encoded by group II introns in the mitochondrial genome of the brown alga Pylaiella littoralis belong to two different lineages which apparently coevolved with the group II ribosyme lineages. Journal of Molecular Evolution 44: 33-42

Gray MW, Lang BF, Cedergren R, Golding GB, Lemieux C, Sankoff D, Turmel M, Brossard N, Delage E, Littlejohn TG, Plante I, Rioux P, Saint-Louis D, Zhu Y, Burger G 1991. Genome structure and gene content in protist mitochondrial DNAs. Nucleic Acids Research 26: 865-878

Hayashi-Ishimaru Y, Ehara M, Inagaki Y, Ohama T 1997. A deviant mitochondrial genetic code in prymnesiophytes (yellow-algae): UGA codon for tryptophan. Current Genetics 32: 296-299

Horvath A, Berry EA, Huang L, Maslov DA 2000. Leichmania tarentolae: A parallel isolation of cytochrom bc1 and cytchrom c oxidase. Experimental Parasitololgy 96: 160-167

Inagaki Y, Ehara M, Watanabe KI, Hayashi-Ishimaru Y, Ohama T 1998. Directionally evolving genetic code: the UGA codon from stop to tryptophan in mitochondria. Journal of Molecular Evolution 47: 378-384

Inagaki Y, Ehara M, Watanabe KI, Hayashi-Ishimaru Y, Ohama T 1998. Directionally evolving genetic code: the UGA codon from stop to tryptophan in mitochondria. Journal of Molecular Evolution 47: 378-384

Ogawa S, Matsuo K, Angata K, Yanagisawa K, Tanaka Y 1997. Group-I introns in the cytochrome c oxidase genes of Dictyostelium discoideum: two related ORFs in one loop of group-I intron, a cox1/2 hybrid gene and an unusually large cox3 gene. Current Genetics 31: 80-88

Rathore D, Wahl AM, Sullivan M, McCutchan TF 2001. A phylogenetic comparison of gene trees constructed from plastid, mitochondrial and genomic DNA of Plasmodium species. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 114: 89-94

Speijer D, Muijsers AO, Dekker H, Haan A, Breek CKD, Albracht SPJ, Benne R 1996. Purification and characterization of cytochrome c oxidase from the insect trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata. Molecualr and Biochemical Parasitology 79: 47-59

Stothard JR, Frame IA, Carrasco HJ, Miles MA 1998. On the molecular taxonomy of Trypanosoma cruzi using riboprinting . Parasitology 117: 243-247

Turmel M, Lemieux C, Burger G, Lang BF, Otis C, Plante I, Gray MW 1999. The complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of Nephroselmis olivacea and Pedinomonas minor: two radically different evolutionary patterns within green algae. The Plant Cell 11: 1717-1729

Van Oppen MJH, Olsen JL, Stam WT 1993. Evidence for independent acquisition of group I introns in green algae. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10: 1317-1326

Watanabe KI, Ehara M, Ohama T 1998. Distinctive origins of group I introns found in the coxI genes of three green algae. Gene 213: 1-7

Winkler M, Kuck U 1991. The group IIB intron from the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus mitochondrion: molecular characterization of the in vitro spilicing products. Current Genetics 20: 495-502

Ziaie Z, Suyama Y 1987. The cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene of Tetrahymena: a 57 amino acid NH2-terminal extension and a 108 amino acid insert. Current Genetics 12: 357-368