Refereed Papers In International Journals
Gilson, P. R., Adcock, G. J., Howlett, B. J. and McFadden,
G. I. (1995) Organisation and sequence analysis of nuclear-encoded
5s ribosomal RNA genes in cryptomonad algae. Curr. Genet.
27:239-242.
Gilson, P. and McFadden, G. I. (1995) The chlorarachniophyte:
a cell with two different nuclei and two different telomeres.
Chromosoma 103:635-641.
Gilson, P. R., Waller, R. F. and McFadden, G. I. (1995)
Preliminary characterization of chlorarachniophyte mitochondrial
DNA. J. Euk. Microbiol. 42:696-701.
Gilson, P. R. and McFadden, G. I. (1996) The miniaturised
nuclear genome of a eukaryotic endosymbiont contains genes that
overlap, genes that are contranscribed, and smallest known spliceosomal
introns. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 93:7737-7742.
Gilson, P. R. and McFadden, G. I. (1997) Good things in
small packages: the tiny genomes of chlorarachniophyte endosymbionts.
BioEssays 19: 167-173.
Gilson, P. R. U-G Maier and McFadden, G. I. (1997) Size
isn't everything. Lessons in genetic miniaturisation from nucleomorph
genomes. Curr. Opinion Genet. Devt 7: 800-806.
Gilson, P. R. and McFadden, G. I. (1999) Molecular and
morphological characterization of six chlorarachniophyte strains.
Phycol. Res. 47:7-19
Gilson, P.R., Gaspar, Y.M., Oxley, D., Youl, J.J. and Bacic,
A. (2001) NaAGP4 is an arabinogalactan-protein whose expression
is suppressed by wounding and fungal infection in Nicotiana
alata Protoplasma. 215:128-139
Gilson PR, and McFadden GI. (2001) Genome sequencing. A grin without a cat. Nature 410:1040-1.
Gilson, P. and Beech, P. (2001). Bacterial lessons on organelle division. Today's Life Sciences May/June, 42-45
Gilson PR, and McFadden GI. (2002) Jam packed genomes a preliminary, comparative analysis of nucleomorphs. Genetica In press
McFadden, G. I., Gilson, P. R. and Douglas, S. E. (1994) The photosynthetic endosymbiont in cryptomonad cells produces both chloroplast and cytoplasmic-type ribosomes. J. Cell. Sci. 107:649-657.
McFadden, G. I., Gilson, P. R. and Hill, D. R. A. (1994)
Goniomonas : rRNA sequences indicate that this phagotrophic
flagellate is a close relative of the host component of cryptomonads.
Eur. J. Phycol. 29:29-32.
McFadden, G. I., Gilson, P. R., Hofmann, C. J., Adcock,
G. J. and Maier, U.-G. (1994) Evidence that an amoeba acquired
a chloroplast by retaining part of an engulfed eukaryotic alga.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:3690-3694.
McFadden, G. I. and Gilson, P. R. (1995) Something borrowed,
something green: lateral transfer of chloroplasts by secondary
endosymbiosis. Trends Ecol. Evol. 10:12-17.
McFadden, G. I., Gilson, P. R. and Waller, R. F. (1995)
Molecular phyologeny of chlorarachniophytes based on plastid rRNA
and rbcL sequences. Arch. Protistenk. 145:231-239.
McFadden, G. I., Douglas, S.E., Gilson, P. R. Hofmann,
C. J. B., Cavalier-Smith, T. , Maier, U.-G. (1996) Bonsai genomics:
Sequencing the smallest known eukaryotic genomes. Trends Genet.
13: 46-49
Cavalier-Smith, T. Couch, J.A., Thorsteinsen, K.E., Gilson,
P.R., Deane, J., Hill, D.R.A, & McFadden, G.I. (1996)
Cryptomonad nuclear and nucleomorph 18S rRNA phylogeny. Eur.
J. Phycol. 31: 315-328
McFadden, G. I., Gilson, P. R. and Simms, I. (1997) Preliminary
characterization of carbohydrate stores from chlorarachniophytes
(Division Chlorarachniophyta). Phycol. Res. 45:145-151.
Shultz, C., Gilson, P., Oxley, D. ,Youl, J. and Bacic,
A. (1998) GPI-anchors on arabinogalactan-proteins: implications
for signalling in plants. Trends Plant Sci. 3: 426-431.
Beech
P.L. and Gilson P.R. (2000) FtsZ and organelle division
in Protists. Protist. 151:11-16
Book Chapters
McFadden, G. I., Hofmann, C. J. B. & Gilson, P.
R. (1997) The chlorarachniophytes. In: The evolution of
the algae and their plastids, Bhattacharya, D. (ed), Springer
Verlag, Pl. Syst. Evol. [Suppl.] 11:175-185.
McFadden, G. I. and Gilson, P. R. (1997) What's eating
Eu? The role of eukaryote/eukaryote edosymbioses in plastid origins.
In: Eukaryotism and Symbiosis - Intertaxonic combination versus
symbiotic adaptation (Endocytobiology VI). Schenk HEA, Herrmann
RG, Jeon KW, Mueller NE, Schwemmler W (eds.), Springer, Berlin
Heidelberg, 1997, pp. 24-39.
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