Paul Gilson

Publications

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. and Beech, P.L. (2001) Cell division protein FtsZ: running rings around bacteria, chloroplasts and mitochondria. Res. Microbiol. 152:3-10


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., Nheu T, Schultz T, Herbert S, Lithgow T, Gilson P.R., McFadden G.I. (2000) Mitochondrial FtsZ in a Chromophyte Alga. Science 287:1276-1279


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.

 

Other publications


Beech, P. L., Landweber, L. F., and Gilson, P. R. Meeting Report: XIIIth Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic, July 31 - August 4, 2000

Gilson PR. (2001) Nucleomorph genomes: much ado about practically nothing. Genome Biol. 2(8):REVIEWS1022.

 

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