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Porous Substrate Bioreactors: A Paradigm Shift in Microalgal Biotechnology? by Podola, Björn, Li, Tong, Melkonian, Michael

“…Many of the demands in the production of microalgae at a technical scale cannot presently be met by state-of-the-art cultivation technologies based on…”
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Application of a prototype-scale Twin-Layer photobioreactor for effective N and P removal from different process stages of municipal wastewater by immobilized microalgae by Shi, Jing, Podola, Björn, Melkonian, Michael

“…•A biofilm photobioreactor for microalgae was designed for wastewater treatment.•Immobilized microalgae did recover P and N efficiently from municipal…”
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Origin of land plants: do conjugating green algae hold the key? by Wodniok, Sabina, Brinkmann, Henner, Glöckner, Gernot, Heidel, Andrew J, Philippe, Hervé, Melkonian, Michael, Becker, Burkhard

“…The terrestrial habitat was colonized by the ancestors of modern land plants about 500 to 470 million years ago. Today it is widely accepted that land plants…”
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Occurrence, structure, and evolution of nitric oxide synthase-like proteins in the plant kingdom by Jeandroz, Sylvain, Wipf, Daniel, Stuehr, Dennis J, Lamattina, Lorenzo, Melkonian, Michael, Tian, Zhijian, Zhu, Ying, Carpenter, Eric J, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Wendehenne, David

“…Nitric oxide (NO) signaling regulates various physiological processes in both animals and plants. In animals, NO synthesis is mainly catalyzed by NO synthase…”
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Molecular Phylogeny and Classification of the Mamiellophyceae class. nov. (Chlorophyta) based on Sequence Comparisons of the Nuclear- and Plastid-encoded rRNA Operons by Marin, Birger, Melkonian, Michael

“…Molecular phylogenetic analyses of the Mamiellophyceae classis nova, a ubiquitous group of largely picoplanktonic green algae comprising scaly and non-scaly…”
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"Candidatus Finniella" (Rickettsiales, Alphaproteobacteria), Novel Endosymbionts of Viridiraptorid Amoeboflagellates (Cercozoa, Rhizaria) by Hess, Sebastian, Suthaus, Andreas, Melkonian, Michael

“…The Rickettsiales (Alphaproteobacteria) are obligate intracellular bacteria that colonize a wide range of eukaryotic hosts, including diverse metazoa and…”
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Endosymbiotic associations within protists by Nowack, Eva C. M., Melkonian, Michael

“…The establishment of an endosymbiotic relationship typically seems to be driven through complementation of the host's limited metabolic capabilities by the…”
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Origin and evolution of the nuclear auxin response system by Mutte, Sumanth K, Kato, Hirotaka, Rothfels, Carl, Melkonian, Michael, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Weijers, Dolf

“…The small signaling molecule auxin controls numerous developmental processes in land plants, acting mostly by regulating gene expression. Auxin response…”
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All-optical electrophysiology in mammalian neurons using engineered microbial rhodopsins by Hochbaum, Daniel R, Zhao, Yongxin, Farhi, Samouil L, Klapoetke, Nathan, Werley, Christopher A, Kapoor, Vikrant, Zou, Peng, Kralj, Joel M, Maclaurin, Dougal, Smedemark-Margulies, Niklas, Saulnier, Jessica L, Boulting, Gabriella L, Straub, Christoph, Cho, Yong Ku, Melkonian, Michael, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Harrison, D Jed, Murthy, Venkatesh N, Sabatini, Bernardo L, Boyden, Edward S, Campbell, Robert E, Cohen, Adam E

“…A combination of a sensitive blue light–gated channelrhodopsin actuator and red-shifted Arch-based voltage sensors allows all-optical electrophysiology without…”
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A close-up view on ITS2 evolution and speciation - a case study in the Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta, Viridiplantae) by Caisová, Lenka, Marin, Birger, Melkonian, Michael

“…The second Internal Transcriber Spacer (ITS2) is a fast evolving part of the nuclear-encoded rRNA operon located between the 5.8S and 28S rRNA genes. Based on…”
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A Consensus Secondary Structure of ITS2 in the Chlorophyta Identified by Phylogenetic Reconstruction by Caisová, Lenka, Marin, Birger, Melkonian, Michael

“…The definition of species plays a pivotal role in biology. It has been proposed that Compensatory Base Changes (CBCs) in the fast-evolving Internal Transcribed…”
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Functional and topological diversity of LOV domain photoreceptors by Glantz, Spencer T., Carpenter, Eric J., Melkonian, Michael, Gardner, Kevin H., Boyden, Edward S., Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Chow, Brian Y.

“…Light–oxygen–voltage sensitive (LOV) flavoproteins are ubiquitous photoreceptors that mediate responses to environmental cues. Photosensory inputs are…”
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Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater using microalgae immobilized on twin layers: an experimental study by Shi, Jing, Podola, Björn, Melkonian, Michael

“…Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater by two green microalgae (Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus rubescens) was investigated using a novel method…”
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Shedding light on vampires: the phylogeny of vampyrellid amoebae revisited by Hess, Sebastian, Sausen, Nicole, Melkonian, Michael

“…With the advent of molecular phylogenetic techniques the polyphyly of naked filose amoebae has been proven. They are interspersed in several supergroups of…”
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Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes by Li, Fay-Wei, Melkonian, Michael, Rothfels, Carl J., Villarreal, Juan Carlos, Stevenson, Dennis W., Graham, Sean W., Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Pryer, Kathleen M., Mathews, Sarah

“…Phytochromes are red/far-red photoreceptors that play essential roles in diverse plant morphogenetic and physiological responses to light. Despite their…”
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Algal ancestor of land plants was preadapted for symbiosis by Delaux, Pierre-Marc, Radhakrishnan, Guru V., Jayaraman, Dhileepkumar, Cheem, Jitender, Malbreil, Mathilde, Volkening, Jeremy D., Sekimoto, Hiroyuki, Nishiyama, Tomoaki, Melkonian, Michael, Pokorny, Lisa, Rothfels, Carl J., Sederoff, Heike Winter, Stevenson, Dennis W., Surek, Barbara, Zhang, Yong, Sussman, Michael R., Dunand, Christophe, Morris, Richard J., Roux, Christophe, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Oldroyd, Giles E. D., Ané, Jean-Michel

“…Colonization of land by plants was a major transition on Earth, but the developmental and genetic innovations required for this transition remain unknown…”
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Shared features and reciprocal complementation of the Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis microbiota by Durán, Paloma, Flores-Uribe, José, Wippel, Kathrin, Zhang, Pengfan, Guan, Rui, Melkonian, Barbara, Melkonian, Michael, Garrido-Oter, Ruben

“…Microscopic algae release organic compounds to the region immediately surrounding their cells, known as the phycosphere, constituting a niche for colonization…”
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Potential of Porous Substrate Bioreactors for Removal of Pollutants from Wastewater Using Microalgae by Carbone, Dora Allegra, Melkonian, Michael

“…Porous substrate bioreactors (PSBRs) are a new technology to grow microalgae immobilized in a dense culture and solve some problems linked to suspended…”
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Picomonas judraskeda gen. et sp. nov.: the first identified member of the Picozoa phylum nov., a widespread group of picoeukaryotes, formerly known as 'picobiliphytes' by Seenivasan, Ramkumar, Sausen, Nicole, Medlin, Linda K, Melkonian, Michael

“…In 2007, a novel, putatively photosynthetic picoeukaryotic lineage, the 'picobiliphytes', with no known close eukaryotic relatives, was reported from 18S…”
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Rubisco and carbon-concentrating mechanism co-evolution across chlorophyte and streptophyte green algae by Goudet, Myriam M. M., Orr, Douglas J., Melkonian, Michael, Müller, Karin H., Meyer, Moritz T., Carmo-Silva, Elizabete, Griffiths, Howard

“…• Green algae expressing a carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM) are usually associated with a Rubisco-containing micro-compartment, the pyrenoid. A link…”
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