@article {benites_evolutionary_2021,
	title = {Evolutionary Genomics of Sex-Related Chromosomes at the Base of the Green Lineage},
	journal = {Genome Biology and Evolution},
	volume = {13},
	number = {10},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {evab216},
	abstract = {Although sex is now accepted as a ubiquitous and ancestral feature of eukaryotes, direct observation of sex is still lacking in most unicellular eukaryotic lineages. Evidence of sex is frequently indirect and inferred from the identification of genes involved in meiosis from whole genome data and/or the detection of recombination signatures from genetic diversity in natural populations. In haploid unicellular eukaryotes, sex-related chromosomes are named mating-type (MTs) chromosomes and generally carry large genomic regions where recombination is suppressed. These regions have been characterized in Fungi and Chlorophyta and determine gamete compatibility and fusion. Two candidate MT{\th} and MT{\`A} alleles, spanning 450{\textendash}650 kb, have recently been described in Ostreococcus tauri, a marine phytoplanktonic alga from the Mamiellophyceae class, an early diverging branch in the green lineage. Here, we investigate the architecture and evolution of these candidate MT{\th} and MT{\`A} alleles. We analyzed the phylogenetic profile and GC content of MT gene families in eight different genomes whose divergence has been previously estimated at up to 640 Myr, and found evidence that the divergence of the two MT alleles predates speciation in the Ostreococcus genus. Phylogenetic profiles of MT transspecific polymorphisms in gametologs disclosed candidate MTs in two additional species, and possibly a third. These Mamiellales MT candidates are likely to be the oldest mating-type loci described to date, which makes them fascinating models to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms of haploid sex determination in eukaryotes.},
	keywords = {RCC1105, RCC1115, RCC2590, RCC299, rcc3401, RCC4221, RCC809, RCC834},
	issn = {1759-6653},
	doi = {10.1093/gbe/evab216},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evab216/6380139},
	author = {Benites, Luis Felipe and Bucchini, Fran{\c c}ois and Sanchez-Brosseau, Sophie and Grimsley, Nigel and Vandepoele, Klaas and Piganeau, Gwenael},
	editor = {Wolfe, Kenneth}
}
@article {Leconte2020,
	title = {Genome resolved biogeography of mamiellales},
	journal = {Genes},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2020},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC299,RCC4221: RCC2590,RCC809},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {66},
	abstract = {Among marine phytoplankton, Mamiellales encompass several species from the genera Micromonas, Ostreococcus and Bathycoccus, which are important contributors to primary production. Previous studies based on single gene markers described their wide geographical distribution but led to discussion because of the uneven taxonomic resolution of the method. Here, we leverage genome sequences for six Mamiellales species, two from each genus Micromonas, Ostreococcus and Bathycoccus, to investigate their distribution across 133 stations sampled during the Tara Oceans expedition. Our study confirms the cosmopolitan distribution of Mamiellales and further suggests non-random distribution of species, with two triplets of co-occurring genomes associated with different temperatures: Ostreococcus lucimarinus, Bathycoccus prasinos and Micromonas pusilla were found in colder waters, whereas Ostreococcus spp. RCC809, Bathycoccus spp. TOSAG39-1 and Micromonas commoda were more abundant in warmer conditions. We also report the distribution of the two candidate mating-types of Ostreococcus for which the frequency of sexual reproduction was previously assumed to be very low. Indeed, both mating types were systematically detected together in agreement with either frequent sexual reproduction or the high prevalence of a diploid stage. Altogether, these analyses provide novel insights into Mamiellales{\textquoteright} biogeography and raise novel testable hypotheses about their life cycle and ecology.},
	keywords = {Biogeography, mamiellales, mating-type, RCC1105, RCC2590, RCC299, RCC4221, RCC809, sexual reproduction, tara oceans},
	issn = {2073-4425},
	doi = {10.3390/genes11010066},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/1/66},
	author = {Leconte and Benites and Vannier and Wincker and Piganeau and Jaillon}
}
@article {yau_rapidity_2018,
	title = {Rapidity of Genomic Adaptations to Prasinovirus Infection in a Marine Microalga},
	journal = {Viruses},
	volume = {10},
	number = {8},
	year = {2018},
	note = {Number: 8 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
	pages = {441},
	abstract = {Prasinoviruses are large dsDNA viruses commonly found in aquatic systems worldwide, where they can infect and lyse unicellular prasinophyte algae such as Ostreococcus. Host susceptibility is virus strain-specific, but resistance of susceptible Ostreococcus tauri strains to a virulent virus arises frequently. In clonal resistant lines that re-grow, viruses are usually present for many generations, and genes clustered on chromosome 19 show physical rearrangements and differential expression. Here, we investigated changes occurring during the first two weeks after inoculation of the prasinovirus OtV5. By serial dilutions of cultures at the time of inoculation, we estimated the frequency of resistant cells arising in virus-challenged O. tauri cultures to be 10\&minus;3\&ndash;10\&minus;4 of the inoculated population. Re-growing resistant cells were detectable by flow cytometry 3 days post-inoculation (dpi), visible re-greening of cultures occurred by 6 dpi, and karyotypic changes were visually detectable at 8 dpi. Resistant cell lines showed a modified spectrum of host-virus specificities and much lower levels of OtV5 adsorption.},
	keywords = {adsorption, Chromosome, host range, karyotype, mamiellophyceae, phycodnaviridae, RCC1105, RCC4221, RCC4223, rearrangement, resistance, specificity, \textitOstreococcus tauri},
	doi = {10.3390/v10080441},
	url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/10/8/441},
	author = {Yau, Sheree and Caravello, Ga{\"e}tan and Fonvieille, Nad{\`e}ge and Desgranges, Elodie and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Grimsley, Nigel}
}
@article {Weynberg2017,
	title = {Marine prasinoviruses and their tiny plankton hosts : A review},
	journal = {Viruses},
	number = {March},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: 2017,RCC,rcc1105,rcc299,rcc809},
	pages = {1{\textendash}20},
	abstract = {Viruses play a crucial role in the marine environment, promoting nutrient recycling and biogeochemical cycling and driving evolutionary processes. Tiny marine phytoplankton called prasinophytes are ubiquitous and significant contributors to global primary production and biomass. A number of viruses (known as prasinoviruses) that infect these important primary producers have been isolated and characterised over the past decade. Here we review the current body of knowledge about prasinoviruses and their interactions with their algal hosts. Several genes, including those encoding for glycosyltransferases, methyltransferases and amino acid synthesis enzymes, which have never been identified in viruses of eukaryotes previously, have been detected in prasinovirus genomes. The host organisms are also intriguing; most recently, an immunity chromosome used by a prasinophyte in response to viral infection was discovered. In light of such recent, novel discoveries, we discuss why the cellular simplicity of prasinophytes makes for appealing model host organism{\textendash}virus systems to facilitate focused and detailed investigations into the dynamics of marine viruses and their intimate associations with host species. We encourage the adoption of the prasinophyte Ostreococcus and its associated viruses as a model host{\textendash}virus system for examination of cellular and molecular processes in the marine environment.},
	keywords = {2017, host interactions, marine virus ecology, rcc, RCC1105, RCC299, RCC809, virus, virus-driven evolution, virus{\textendash}host interactions},
	issn = {1999-4915},
	doi = {10.3390/v9030043},
	author = {Weynberg, Karen D and Allen, Michael J and Wilson, William H}
}
@article {Blanc-Mathieu2017,
	title = {Population genomics of picophytoplankton unveils novel chromosome hypervariability},
	journal = {Science Advances},
	volume = {3},
	number = {7},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC1108,RCC1110,RCC1112,RCC1114,RCC1115,RCC1116,RCC1117,RCC1118,RCC1123,RCC1558,RCC1559,RCC1561,RCC299,RCC4221,RCC809},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {e1700239},
	keywords = {RCC1105, RCC1108, RCC1110, RCC1112, RCC1114, RCC1115, RCC1116, RCC1117, RCC1118, RCC1123, RCC1558, RCC1559, RCC1561, RCC299, RCC4221, RCC809},
	issn = {2375-2548},
	doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1700239},
	url = {http://advances.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700239},
	author = {Blanc-Mathieu, Romain and Krasovec, Marc and Hebrard, Maxime and Yau, Sheree and Desgranges, Elodie and Martin, Joel and Schackwitz, Wendy and Kuo, Alan and Salin, Gerald and Donnadieu, Cecile and Desdevises, Yves and Sanchez-Ferandin, Sophie and Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Rivals, Eric and Grigoriev, Igor V. and Grimsley, Nigel and Eyre-Walker, Adam and Piganeau, Gwenael}
}
@article {Limardo2017,
	title = {Quantitative biogeography of picoprasinophytes establishes ecotype distributions and significant contributions to marine phytoplankton},
	journal = {Environmental Microbiology},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC715,RCC716,RCC809},
	month = {jun},
	keywords = {RCC1105, RCC715, RCC716, RCC809},
	issn = {14622912},
	doi = {10.1111/1462-2920.13812},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1462-2920.13812},
	author = {Limardo, Alexander J. and Sudek, Sebastian and Choi, Chang Jae and Poirier, Camille and Rii, Yoshimi M. and Blum, Marguerite and Roth, Robyn and Goodenough, Ursula and Church, Matthew J. and Worden, Alexandra Z.}
}
@article {Vannier2016,
	title = {Survey of the green picoalga Bathycoccus genomes in the global ocean},
	journal = {Scientific Reports},
	volume = {6},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: 2016,RCC1105,RCC715,RCC716,sbr?hyto$_\textrmd$ipo,sbr?hyto?ppo},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {37900},
	keywords = {2016, RCC1105, RCC715, RCC716, sbr?hyto$_\textrmd$ipo, sbr?hyto?ppo},
	issn = {2045-2322},
	doi = {10.1038/srep37900},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/srep37900},
	author = {Vannier, Thomas and Leconte, Jade and Seeleuthner, Yoann and Mondy, Samuel and Pelletier, Eric and Aury, Jean-Marc and de Vargas, Colomban and Sieracki, Michael and Iudicone, Daniele and Vaulot, Daniel and Wincker, Patrick and Jaillon, Olivier}
}
@article {Bellec2014,
	title = {Cophylogenetic interactions between marine viruses and eukaryotic picophytoplankton},
	journal = {BMC Evolutionary Biology},
	volume = {14},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC1107,RCC1108,RCC1109,RCC114,RCC2482,RCC2483,RCC2484,RCC2485,RCC344,RCC356,RCC373,RCC418,RCC461,RCC464,RCC465,RCC629,RCC658,RCC745,RCC789,RCC834},
	pages = {59},
	abstract = {BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have investigated cospeciation (or cophylogeny) in various host-symbiont systems, and different patterns were inferred, from strict cospeciation where symbiont phylogeny mirrors host phylogeny, to complete absence of correspondence between trees. The degree of cospeciation is generally linked to the level of host specificity in the symbiont species and the opportunity they have to switch hosts. In this study, we investigated cophylogeny for the first time in a microalgae-virus association in the open sea, where symbionts are believed to be highly host-specific but have wide opportunities to switch hosts. We studied prasinovirus-Mamiellales associations using 51 different viral strains infecting 22 host strains, selected from the characterisation and experimental testing of the specificities of 313 virus strains on 26 host strains.RESULTS:All virus strains were restricted to their host genus, and most were species-specific, but some of them were able to infect different host species within a genus. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed for viruses and their hosts, and their congruence was assessed based on these trees and the specificity data using different cophylogenetic methods, a topology-based approach, Jane, and a global congruence method, ParaFit. We found significant congruence between virus and host trees, but with a putatively complex evolutionary history.CONCLUSIONS:Mechanisms other than true cospeciation, such as host-switching, might explain a part of the data. It has been observed in a previous study on the same taxa that the genomic divergence between host pairs is larger than between their viruses. It implies that if cospeciation predominates in this algae-virus system, this would support the hypothesis that prasinoviruses evolve more slowly than their microalgal hosts, whereas host switching would imply that these viruses speciated more recently than the divergence of their host genera.},
	keywords = {rcc, RCC1105, rcc1107, RCC1108, RCC1109, RCC114, RCC2482, RCC2483, RCC2484, RCC2485, RCC344, RCC356, RCC373, RCC418, RCC461, RCC464, RCC465, RCC629, RCC658, RCC745, RCC789, RCC834, SBR$_\textrmP$hyto$_\textrmD$PO},
	doi = {10.1186/1471-2148-14-59},
	url = {http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/59},
	author = {Bellec, Laure and Clerissi, Camille and Edern, Roseline and Foulon, Elodie and Simon, Nathalie and Grimsley, Nigel and Desdevises, Yves}
}
@article {Moreau2010,
	title = {Marine Prasinovirus genomes show low evolutionary divergence and acquisition of protein metabolism genes by horizontal gene transfer},
	journal = {Journal of Virology},
	volume = {84},
	number = {24},
	year = {2010},
	note = {ISBN: 0022-538X tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1105,RCC745},
	pages = {12555{\textendash}12563},
	abstract = {Although marine picophytoplankton are at the base of the global food chain, accounting for half of the planetary primary production, they are outnumbered 10 to 1 and are largely controlled by hugely diverse populations of viruses. Eukaryotic microalgae form a ubiquitous and particularly dynamic fraction of such plankton, with environmental clone libraries from coastal regions sometimes being dominated by one or more of the three genera Bathycoccus, Micromonas, and Ostreococcus (class Prasinophyceae). The complete sequences of two double-stranded (dsDNA) Bathycoccus, one dsDNA Micromonas, and one new dsDNA Ostreococcus virus genomes are described. Genome comparison of these giant viruses revealed a high degree of conservation, both for orthologous genes and for synteny, except for one 36-kb inversion in the Ostreococcus lucimarinus virus and two very large predicted proteins in Bathycoccus prasinos viruses. These viruses encode a gene repertoire of certain amino acid biosynthesis pathways never previously observed in viruses that are likely to have been acquired from lateral gene transfer from their host or from bacteria. Pairwise comparisons of whole genomes using all coding sequences with homologous counterparts, either between viruses or between their corresponding hosts, revealed that the evolutionary divergences between viruses are lower than those between their hosts, suggesting either multiple recent host transfers or lower viral evolution rates.},
	keywords = {RCC1105, RCC745},
	doi = {10.1128/jvi.01123-10},
	author = {Moreau, Herv{\'e} and Piganeau, Gwenael and Desdevises, Yves and Cooke, Richard and Derelle, Evelyne and Grimsley, Nigel}
}
