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  1. Host-calibrated time tree caps the age of giant viruses

    Article • September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chuan Ku

  2. Haplotype-aware multiomics unveils the regulatory basis of haplodiplontic life-cycle differentiation in a cosmopolitan marine alga

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  3. Cathepsin X is a conserved cell death protein involved in algal response to environmental stress

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  4. Daily turnover of active giant virus infection during algal blooms revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

    Article • Science Advances, October 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Chuan Ku

  5. Widespread Distribution and Evolution of Poxviral Entry-Fusion Complex Proteins in Giant Viruses

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, March 2023, ASM Journals

    Chuan Ku, Dr Wen Chang

  6. Widespread distribution and evolution of poxviral entry-fusion complex proteins in giant viruses

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  7. Single-cell transcriptomics unveils xylem cell development and evolution

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chuan Ku

  8. Complete Genome Sequence of Phaeobacter sp. Strain G2, Isolated from a Lab Culture of the Calcifying Alga Emiliania huxleyi

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, November 2022, ASM Journals

    Chuan Ku

  9. Daily turnover of active giant virus infection during algal blooms revealed by single-cell transcriptomics

    Article • October 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  10. Complex evolution and inheritance in marine algae

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2022, Wiley

    Chuan Ku

  11. Single-cell transcriptomics unveils xylem cell development and evolution

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  12. Unraveling Gene Content Variation Across Eukaryotic Giant Viruses Based on Network Analyses and Host Associations

    Article • Virus Evolution, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Chuan Ku

  13. Giant Virus-Eukaryote Interactions as Ecological and Evolutionary Driving Forces

    Article • mSystems, August 2021, ASM Journals

    Chuan Ku

  14. Host Range and Coding Potential of Eukaryotic Giant Viruses

    Article • Viruses, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Chuan Ku

  15. A single-cell view on alga-virus interactions reveals sequential transcriptional programs and infection states

    Article • Science Advances, May 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Chuan Ku

  16. Did giant and large dsDNA viruses originate before their eukaryotic hosts?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Chuan Ku

  17. Using single-cell transcriptomics to understand functional states and interactions in microbial eukaryotes

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Chuan Ku

  18. Tracking infection dynamics at single-cell level reveals highly resolved expression programs of a large virus infecting algal blooms

    Article • September 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Chuan Ku

  19. Complete Genome Sequence of Sulfitobacter sp. Strain D7, a Virulent Bacterium Isolated from an Emiliania huxleyi Algal Bloom in the North Atlantic

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, November 2018, ASM Journals

    Chuan Ku

  20. Bacterial virulence against an oceanic bloom-forming phytoplankter is mediated by algal DMSP

    Article • Science Advances, October 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Chuan Ku

  21. Late Mitochondrial Origin Is an Artifact

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, February 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Chuan Ku

  22. A natural barrier to lateral gene transfer from prokaryotes to eukaryotes revealed from genomes: the 70 % rule

    Article • BMC Biology, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chuan Ku

  23. Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

    Article • Nature, August 2015, Nature

    Professor James McInerney, Chuan Ku

  24. Endosymbiotic gene transfer from prokaryotic pangenomes: Inherited chimerism in eukaryotes

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Chuan Ku

  25. Endosymbiotic theory for organelle origins

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sven B Gould, Chuan Ku

  26. Molecular evolution of the actin-like MreB protein gene family in wall-less bacteria

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  27. Molecular Evolution of the Substrate Utilization Strategies and Putative Virulence Factors in Mosquito-Associated Spiroplasma Species

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, February 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  28. Complete Genome Sequence of Spiroplasma apis B31T (ATCC 33834), a Bacterium Associated with May Disease of Honeybees (Apis mellifera)

    Article • Genome Announcements, January 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  29. Phylogenetic and Cophylogenetic Analyses of the Leaf-Nodule Symbiosis in Ardisia Subgenus Crispardisia (Myrsinaceae): Evidence from Nuclear and Chloroplast Markers and Bacterial rrn Operons

    Article • International Journal of Plant Sciences, January 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Chuan Ku

  30. Plastid origin: who, when and why?

    Article • Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, January 2014, Polish Botanical Society

    Chuan Ku

  31. Horizontal transfer of potential mobile units in phytoplasmas

    Article • Mobile Genetic Elements, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  32. Comparison of Metabolic Capacities and Inference of Gene Content Evolution in Mosquito-Associated Spiroplasma diminutum and S. taiwanense

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  33. The Complete Plastid Genome Sequence of Madagascar Periwinkle Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don: Plastid Genome Evolution, Molecular Marker Identification, and Phylogenetic Implications in Asterids

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2013, PLOS

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  34. Complete Genomes of Two Dipteran-Associated Spiroplasmas Provided Insights into the Origin, Dynamics, and Impacts of Viral Invasion in Spiroplasma

    Article • Genome Biology and Evolution, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku

  35. Complete Plastid Genome Sequence of the Basal Asterid Ardisia polysticta Miq. and Comparative Analyses of Asterid Plastid Genomes

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2013, PLOS

    Dr Chih-Horng Kuo, Chuan Ku