Michelle M. Leger - Publications

Affiliations: 
2008-2016 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 
 2016- Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain 

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2025 Schoenle A, Francis O, Archibald JM, Burki F, de Vries J, Dumack K, Eme L, Florent I, Hehenberger E, Hoffmeyer TT, Irisarri I, Lara E, Leger MM, Lukeš J, Massana R, et al. Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution. Trends in Genetics : Tig. PMID 40517085 DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2025.05.004  0.641
2024 Richards TA, Eme L, Archibald JM, Leonard G, Coelho SM, de Mendoza A, Dessimoz C, Dolezal P, Fritz-Laylin LK, Gabaldón T, Hampl V, Kops GJPL, Leger MM, Lopez-Garcia P, McInerney JO, et al. Reconstructing the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. Plos Biology. 22: e3002917. PMID 39585925 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002917  0.72
2024 Chivu AG, Basso BA, Abuhashem A, Leger MM, Barshad G, Rice EJ, Vill AC, Wong W, Chou SP, Chovatiya G, Brady R, Smith JJ, Wikramanayake AH, Arenas-Mena C, Brito IL, et al. Evolution of promoter-proximal pausing enabled a new layer of transcription control. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology. PMID 39416036 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.19.529146  0.706
2024 Leger MM, Gawryluk RMR. Evolution: A gene-rich mitochondrial genome sheds light on the last eukaryotic common ancestor. Current Biology : Cb. 34: R776-R779. PMID 39163838 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.067  0.341
2023 Záhonová K, Füssy Z, Stairs CW, Leger MM, Tachezy J, Čepička I, Roger AJ, Hampl V. Comparative analysis of mitochondrion-related organelles in anaerobic amoebozoans. Microbial Genomics. 9. PMID 37994879 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001143  0.769
2023 Muñoz-Gómez SA, Cadena LR, Gardiner AT, Leger MM, Sheikh S, Connell LB, Bilý T, Kopejtka K, Beatty JT, Koblížek M, Roger AJ, Slamovits CH, Lukeš J, Hashimi H. Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60. Current Biology : Cb. 33: 1396. PMID 37040698 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.03.049  0.764
2023 Danko C, Chivu A, Abuhashem A, Barshad G, Rice E, Leger M, Vill A, Wong W, Brady R, Smith J, Wikramanayake A, Arenas-Mena C, Brito I, Ruiz-Trillo I, Hadjantonakis AK, et al. Evolution of promoter-proximal pausing enabled a new layer of transcription control. Research Square. PMID 36993251 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2679520/v1  0.705
2023 Muñoz-Gómez SA, Cadena LR, Gardiner AT, Leger MM, Sheikh S, Connell LB, Bilý T, Kopejtka K, Beatty JT, Koblížek M, Roger AJ, Slamovits CH, Lukeš J, Hashimi H. Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic60. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 36921606 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.059  0.786
2022 Leger MM, Stairs C. Eukaryotic evolution: Spatial proteomics sheds light on mitochondrial reduction. Current Biology : Cb. 32: R1308-R1311. PMID 36473440 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.039  0.691
2022 Leger MM, Ros-Rocher N, Najle SR, Ruiz-Trillo I. Rel/NF-κB Transcription Factors Emerged at the Onset of Opisthokonts. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14. PMID 34999783 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab289  0.753
2021 Guberovic I, Hurtado-Bagès S, Rivera-Casas C, Knobloch G, Malinverni R, Valero V, Leger MM, García J, Basquin J, Gómez de Cedrón M, Frigolé-Vivas M, Cheema MS, Pérez A, Ausió J, Ramírez de Molina A, et al. Evolution of a histone variant involved in compartmental regulation of NAD metabolism. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28: 1009-1019. PMID 34887560 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00692-5  0.722
2021 Urrutia A, Mitsi K, Foster R, Ross S, Carr M, Ward GM, van Aerle R, Marigomez I, Leger MM, Ruiz-Trillo I, Feist SW, Bass D. Txikispora philomaios n. sp., n. g., a Micro-Eukaryotic Pathogen of Amphipods, Reveals Parasitism and Hidden Diversity in Class Filasterea. The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. e12875. PMID 34726818 DOI: 10.1111/jeu.12875  0.723
2021 Ros-Rocher N, Pérez-Posada A, Leger MM, Ruiz-Trillo I. The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition. Open Biology. 11: 200359. PMID 33622103 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.200359  0.765
2021 Roger AJ, Susko E, Leger MM. Evolution: Reconstructing the Timeline of Eukaryogenesis. Current Biology : Cb. 31: R193-R196. PMID 33621507 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.035  0.632
2020 Gray MW, Burger G, Derelle R, Klimeš V, Leger MM, Sarrasin M, Vlček Č, Roger AJ, Eliáš M, Lang BF. The draft nuclear genome sequence and predicted mitochondrial proteome of Andalucia godoyi, a protist with the most gene-rich and bacteria-like mitochondrial genome. Bmc Biology. 18: 22. PMID 32122349 DOI: 10.1186/S12915-020-0741-6  0.803
2019 O'Malley MA, Leger MM, Wideman JG, Ruiz-Trillo I. Concepts of the last eukaryotic common ancestor. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3: 338-344. PMID 30778187 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-019-0796-3  0.743
2018 Leger MM, Eme L, Stairs CW, Roger AJ. Demystifying Eukaryote Lateral Gene Transfer (Response to Martin 2017 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201700115). Bioessays : News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. e1700242. PMID 29543982 DOI: 10.1002/Bies.201700242  0.774
2017 Leger MM, Kolisko M, Kamikawa R, Stairs CW, Kume K, Čepička I, Silberman JD, Andersson JO, Xu F, Yabuki A, Eme L, Zhang Q, Takishita K, Inagaki Y, Simpson AGB, et al. Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 0092. PMID 28474007 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-017-0092  0.741
2017 Leger MM, Eme L, Hug LA, Roger AJ. Corrigendum Correction to "Novel hydrogenosomes in the microaerophilic jakobid Stygiella incarcerate". Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 28158607 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msx059  0.729
2016 Leger MM, Eme L, Hug LA, Roger AJ. Novel hydrogenosomes in the microaerophilic jakobid Stygiella incarcerata. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 27280585 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msw103  0.799
2015 Stairs CW, Leger MM, Roger AJ. Diversity and origins of anaerobic metabolism in mitochondria and related organelles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 370: 20140326. PMID 26323757 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2014.0326  0.784
2015 Leger MM, Petr? M, Žárský V, Eme L, Vl?ek ?, Harding T, Lang BF, Eliáš M, Doležal P, Roger AJ. An ancestral bacterial division system is widespread in eukaryotic mitochondria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 25831547 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1421392112  0.771
2013 Leger MM, Gawryluk RM, Gray MW, Roger AJ. Evidence for a hydrogenosomal-type anaerobic ATP generation pathway in Acanthamoeba castellanii. Plos One. 8: e69532. PMID 24086244 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0069532  0.779
2012 Takishita K, Chikaraishi Y, Leger MM, Kim E, Yabuki A, Ohkouchi N, Roger AJ. Lateral transfer of tetrahymanol-synthesizing genes has allowed multiple diverse eukaryote lineages to independently adapt to environments without oxygen. Biology Direct. 7: 5. PMID 22296756 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-7-5  0.654
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