Publications
Highlights
Fourth transition to linear mtDNA architecture in animals
Ahmed M, Kayal E, and DV Lavrov
Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(8), 2024
Demosponge phylogeny based on mtDNA data, including a very unexpected placement of Myceliospongia araneosa
Muthye V, Mackereth CD, Stewart JB, and DV Lavrov
Among other things, the first octocoral mtDNA without mt-mutS
Muthye V, Mackereth CD, Stewart JB, and DV Lavrov
Our first shot on bioinformatic characterization of mitochondrial proteomes in non-bilaterian animals (more to come).
Muthye V and DV Lavrov
Review of our work on mtDNA evolution in animals with focus on non-bilaterian phyla.
DV Lavrov and W. Pett
Genome Biology and Evolution 8, 2016.
Report of our discovery of a highly unusual mRNA editing in mitochondria of calcaronean sponges.
Lavrov DV, Adamski M, Chevaldonné P, Adamska M.
See also Dispatch in Curr Biol. 26, 2016
Recent
Mitochondrial DNA of the Demosponge Acanthella acuta: Linear Architecture and Other Unique Features
Ahmed M, Kayal E, and DV Lavrov
Genome Biology and Evolution, 16(8), 2024
Characterization of the Mitochondrial Proteome in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi Using MitoPredictor
Muthye V, Mackereth CD, Stewart JB, and DV Lavrov
Ctenophores. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2757. Humana, New York, NY.
Phylomitogenomics bolsters the high-level classification of Demospongiae (phylum Porifera)
Muthye V, Mackereth CD, Stewart JB, and DV Lavrov
Plos one 18(12), e0287281
Large dataset of octocoral mitochondrial genomes provides new insights into mt-mutS evolution and function
Muthye V, Mackereth CD, Stewart JB, and DV Lavrov
DNA repair, 110, 2022
Multiple losses of MSH1, gain of mtMutS, and other changes in the MutS family of DNA repair proteins in animals
Muthye V and DV Lavrov
Genome Biology and Evolution, 13 (9), 2021
Causes and consequences of mitochondrial proteome size variation in animals
Muthye V and DV Lavrov
Mitochondrion 52, 2020
MMPdb and MitoPredictor: Tools for facilitating comparative analysis of animal mitochondrial proteomes
Muthye V, Kandoi G, and DV Lavrov
Mitochondrion 51, 2020
Phylogenetic relationships of heteroscleromorph demosponges and the affinity of the genus Myceliospongia (Demospongiae incertae sedis)
Lavrov DV, Maldonado M, Perez T, and C Morrow
bioRxiv, 2019
Characterization of mitochondrial proteomes of nonbilaterian animals
Muthye V and DV Lavrov
IUBMB Life 70, 2018.
Mitochondrial Genomes in Invertebrate Animals
Lavrov DV
Molecular Life Sciences, 2018.
Mitochondrial Genomes in Unicellular Relatives of Animals
Lavrov DV and BF Lang
Molecular Life Sciences, 2018.
Transcriptome sequencing and delimitation of sympatric Oscarella species (O. carmela and O. pearsei sp. nov) from California, USA.
Ereskovsky AV, Richter DJ, Lavrov DV, Schippers KJ, Nichols SA.
PLoS ONE 12(9), 2017.
Animal mitochondrial DNA as we don’t know it: mt-genome organization and evolution in non-bilaterian lineages
DV Lavrov and W. Pett
Genome Biology and Evolution 8, 2016.
Extensive Mitochondrial mRNA Editing and Unusual Mitochondrial Genome Organization in Calcaronean Sponges
Lavrov DV, Adamski M, Chevaldonné P, Adamska M.
Curr Biol. 26, 2016
Integrative taxonomic re-description of Halisarca magellanica and description of a new species of Halisarca (Porifera, Demospongiae) from Chilean Patagonia.
Willenz P, Ereskovsky AV, Lavrov DV.
Zootaxa. 4208(6), 2016.
Ancestral state reconstruction infers phytopathogenic origins of sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi on apple.
Ismail SI, Batzer JC, Harrington TC, Crous PW, Lavrov DV, Li H, Gleason ML.
Mycologia 108(2):292-302, 2016.
Cytonuclear Interactions in the Evolution of Animal Mitochondrial tRNA Metabolism.
Pett W, Lavrov DV.
Genome Biol Evol. 7(8):2089-101, 2015.
The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing community resources to study diverse invertebrate genomes
Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance
Journal of Heredity 105(1):1-18, 2014.
Eight new mtDNA sequences of glass sponges reveal an extensive usage of +1 frameshifting in mitochondrial translation.
Haen KM, Pett W, Lavrov DV.
Gene, 535(2):336-44, 2014.