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  • Sattley WM, Madigan MT, Swingley WD, Cheung PC, Clocksin KM, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Honchak BM, Jung DO, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Page LE, Taylor HL, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Chen M, Blankenship RE, Touchman JW. (2008) The genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a phototrophic representative of the Firmicutes containing the simplest photosynthetic apparatus. Journal of Bacteriology, 190:4687-96.get pdf
  • Raymond, J. and Swingley, W.D. (2008) Phototroph Genomics: Ten Years On. Photosynthesis Research, in press.get pdf
  • Northen TR, Lee JC, Hoang L, Raymond J, Hwang DR, Yannone SM, Wong CH, Siuzdak G. (2008) A nanostructure-initiator mass spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:3678-83.get pdf
  • Raymond, J. (2008) Coloring in the tree of life. Trends in Microbiology, 16:41-3.get pdf
  • Swingley W.D., Chen M., Cheung P.C., Conrad A.L., Dejesa L.C., Hao J., Honchak B.M., Karbach L.E., Kurdoglu A., Lahiri S, Mastrian S.D., Miyashita H., Page L.E., Ramakrishna P., Satoh S., Sattley W.M., Shimada Y., Taylor H.L., Tomo T., Tsuchiya T., Wang Z.T., Raymond J., Mimuro M., Blankenship R.E. and Touchman J.W. (2008) Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105:2005-10.get pdf
  • Raymond, J. and Blankenship, R.E. (2008) The Origin of the Oxygen Evolving Complex. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 252:377-83.get pdf
  • Swingley, W.D., Blankenship, R.E. and Raymond, J., (2008) Integrating Markov clustering and molecular phylogenetics to reconstruct the cyanobacterial species tree from conserved protein families. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25:643-54.get pdf
  • Swingley, W.D., Blankenship, R.E., and Raymond, J. (2008) Insights into cyanobacterial evolution from comparative genomics. The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics and Evolution, A. Herrero and E. Flores, eds., Horizon Scientific Press, Norwich, UK. pp. 22-43.get pdf
  • Staples, C.R., Lahiri, S., Raymond, J., Von Herbulis, L., Mukhopadhyay, B., and Blankenship, R.E. (2007) The Expression and Association of Group IV Nitrogenase NifD and NifH Homologs in the Non-Nitrogen Fixing Archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Journal of Bacteriology, 189, 7392-8. get pdf
  • Blankenship, R.E., Raymond, J., Staples, C., and Mukhopadhyay, B. (2007) Evolution of functional diversity in nitrogenase homologs. Proceeedings of the 15th International Conference on Nitrogen Fixation, in press.
  • Blankenship, R.E., Sadekar, S., and Raymond, J. (2007) The Evolutionary Transition from Anoxygenic to Oxygenic Photosynthesis. In: Falkowski, P.G. and Knoll, A.H. (Eds.) Evolution of Aquatic Phototrophs, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 22-37.
  • Raymond, J. and Segré, D. (2006) The effect of oxygen on biochemical networks and the evolution of complex life. Science, 311, 1764-7. get pdf
  • Mix, L.J., Armstrong, J., Mandell, A., Moiser, A., Raymond, J., Raymond, S., Steward, F., von Braun, K., and Zhaxybayeva, O. (2006) The Astrobiology Primer: An Outline of General Knowledge. Astrobiology, 6, 735-813. get pdf
  • Sadekar, S., Raymond, J., and Blankenship, R.E. (2006) Conservation of Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a Common Structural Core. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23, 2001-7. get pdf
  • Raymond, J. (2006) Oxygen and the evolution of complex life. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. NY: McGraw-Hill.
  • Raymond, J. and Blankenship, R.E. (2006) Evolutionary Relationships Among Type I Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. In: Photosystem I: The Plastocyanin:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase. John H. Golbeck, Ed., Springer, Dordrecht, 669-682. get pdf
  • Raymond, J. (2005) The Evolution of Biological Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling—a Genomic Perspective. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 59, 211-31. get pdf
  • Raymond, J. and Blankenship, R.E. (2004) Biosynthetic Pathways, Gene Replacement and the Antiquity of Life. Geobiology, 2, 1472-4. get pdf
  • Raymond, J., Siefert, J.L., Staples, C.R., and Blankenship, R.E. (2004) The Natural History of Nitrogen Fixation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 541-54. get pdf
  • Zhaxybayeva, O., Hamel, L., Raymond, J., and Gogarten, J.P. (2004) Visualization of Phylogenetic Content of Five Genomes with Dekapentagonal Maps. Genome Biology, 5(3):R20. get pdf
  • Raymond J., and Blankenship, R.E. (2004) The evolutionary development of the protein complement of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1655, 133-9. get pdf
  • Olson, J.M. and Raymond, J. (2003) The FMO-protein is related to PscA in the reaction center of green sulfur bacteria. Photosynthesis Research, 75, 277-285. get pdf
  • Raymond, J. and Blankenship, R.E. (2003) Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal evolution. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, 100, 7419-7420. get pdf
  • Raymond, J., Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P., and Blankenship, R.E. (2003) Evolution of photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum likelihood mapping approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 358, 223-230. get pdf
  • Raymond, J., Zhaxybayeva, O., Gogarten, J.P., and Blankenship, R.E. (2002) Whole genome analysis of photosynthetic prokaryotes, Science, 298, 1616-1620.
  • Blankenship, R.E., Raymond, J., Lince, M., Larkum, A.W.D., Jermiin, L.S., Lockhart, P.J., Zhaxybayeva, O., and Gogarten, J.P. (2001) Evolution of photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. get pdf
  • Raymond, J. and Olson, J.M. (2001) Is FMO protein related to PscA in the reaction center of green sulfur bacteria? Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. get pdf
 
 


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