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Dr ELLEN NISBET's Outputs (4)

An essential pentatricopeptide repeat protein in the apicomplexan remnant chloroplast (2019)
Journal Article
Hicks, J. L., Lassadi, I., Carpenter, E. F., Eno, M., Vardakis, A., Waller, R. F., Howe, C. J., & Nisbet, R. E. R. (2019). An essential pentatricopeptide repeat protein in the apicomplexan remnant chloroplast. Cellular Microbiology, 21(12), Article e13108. https://doi.org/10.1111/cmi.13108

The malaria parasite Plasmodium and other apicomplexans such as Toxoplasma evolved from photosynthetic organisms and contain an essential, remnant plastid termed the apicoplast. Transcription of the apicoplast genome is polycistronic with extensive R... Read More about An essential pentatricopeptide repeat protein in the apicomplexan remnant chloroplast.

Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast (2019)
Journal Article
Nimmo, I. C., Barbrook, A. C., Lassadi, I., Chen, J. E., Geisler, K., Smith, A. G., Aranda, M., Purton, S., Waller, R. F., Nisbet, R. E. R., & Howe, C. J. (2019). Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast. eLife, 8, Article e45292. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.45292

Coral reefs are some of the most important and ecologically diverse marine environments. At the base of the reef ecosystem are dinoflagellate algae, which live symbiotically within coral cells. Efforts to understand the relationship between alga and... Read More about Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast.

Integrated Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of the Peridinin Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae Plastid (2019)
Journal Article
Dorrell, R. G., Nisbet, R. E. R., Barbrook, A. C., Rowden, S. J., & Howe, C. J. (2019). Integrated Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of the Peridinin Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae Plastid. Protist, 170(4), 358-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2019.06.001

The plastid genomes of peridinin-containing dinoflagellates are highly unusual, possessing very few genes, which are located on small chromosomal elements termed "minicircles". These minicircles may contain genes, or no recognisable coding informatio... Read More about Integrated Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of the Peridinin Dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae Plastid.