REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
O’Brien AL, DeHaan CL, Patron NJ & Rogers S GLUT12: an active transporter of glucose in mammals
Elias M, Patron NJ & Keeling PJ (2009) The RAB Family GTPase Rab1A from Plasmodium falciparum defines a Unique paralog shared by chromalveolates and rhizaria Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology (in press)
Patron NJ*, Durnford DG & Kopriva S (2008) Sulfate assimilation in eukaryotes: fusions, relocations and lateral transfers BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:39 (full text)
Patron NJ, Waller RF Cozijnsen, AJ & Howlett, BJ* (2007) Evolution and heredity of epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) gene clusters in filamentous ascomycetes BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:174 (full text)
Patron NJ* & Waller RF (2007) Transit Peptide Diversity And Divergence: A Global Analysis Of Plastid Targeting Signals (BioEssays, 29:1048-1058)
Rogers MB, Patron NJ & Keeling PJ* (2007) Horizontal transfer of a eukaryotic plastid-targeted protein gene to a cyanobacteria. BMC Biology 5:26 (full text)
Patron NJ, Inagaki Y, & Keeling PJ* (2007) Multiple gene phylogenies support the monophyly of cryptomonad and haptophyte host lineages. Current Biology 17: 887-91
Eisen JA*, Wu M, Wu D, Thiagarajan M, Wortman JR, Badger JH, Ren Q, Amedeo P, Jones KM, Tallon LJ, Delcher AL, Salzberg SL, delToro C, Ryder HF, Williamson SC, Barbeau RA, Silva JC, Haas BJ, Majoros WH, Farzad M, Carlton JM, Garg J, Pearlman RE, Karrer KM, Sun L, Smith Jr. RK, Manning G, Elde NC, Turkewitz AP, Asai DJ, Wilkes DE, Wang Y, Cai H, Collins K, Wilamowska K, Ruzzo WL, Weinberg, Stewart BA, Lee SR, Wloga D, Rogowski K, Frankel J, Gaertig J, TsaoC-C, Gorovsky MA, Keeling PJ, Waller RF, Patron NJ, Cherry JM, Stover NA, Krieger CJ, Hamilton EP, Orias E, Coyne RS (2006) Macronuclear genome sequence of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote PLoS Biology 29;4(9) (full text)
Gile G, Patron NJ & Keeling PJ* (2006) GTPase in cryptomonads and the distribution of EFL and EF-1a in chromalveolates Protist 157:435-444
Patron NJ*, Rogers MB & Keeling PJ (2006) Comparative rates of evolution in endosymbiotic nuclear genomes BMC Evolutionary Biology 6: 46 (full text) A BMC ‘Highly Accessed’ article
Waller RF, Patron NJ, and Keeling PJ* (2006) Phylogenetic history of plastid-targeted proteins in peridinin-containing dinoflagellates. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56: 1439-1447
Patron NJ, Waller RF & Keeling PJ* (2006) A tertiary plastid uses genes from two endosymbionts. Journal of Molecular Biology 357, 1373-1382
Patron NJ & Keeling PJ* (2005) Common evolutionary origin of starch biosynthetic enzymes in green and red algae. Journal of Phycology 41, 1131-1141 (With highlight by Raven JA Cellular location of starch synthesis and evolutionary origin of starch genes. Journal of Phycology 41, 1070-1072 Luigi Provosoli Award of the Phycological Society of America, Juneau, Alaska, July 2006) (WInner of a 2006
Williams BA, Slamovits CH, Patron NJ, Fast NM & Keeling PJ* (2005) A high frequency of overlapping gene expression in compacted eukaryotic genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102, 10936-19041
Takishita K, Patron NJ, Ishida K-I, Maruyama T & Keeling PJ* (2005) A Transcriptional Fusion of Genes Encoding Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and Enolase in Dinoflagellates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52;4, 343-348
Patron NJ, Waller RF, Archibald JM & Keeling PJ* (2005) Complex protein targeting to dinoflagellate plastids. Journal of Molecular Biology. 13;348, 1015-24.
Stevens M, Patron NJ, Dolby CA, Weekes R, Hallsworth PB, Lemaire O & Smith HG* (2005) Distribution and properties of geographically distinct isolates of sugar beet yellowing viruses. Plant Pathology 54, 100-107
Patron NJ, Rogers MB & Keeling PJ* (2004) Gene replacement of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase supports the hypothesis of a single photosynthetic ancestor of chromalveolates. Eukaryotic Cell 5, 1169-75
Patron NJ, Greber B, Fahy BF, Laurie DA, Parker ML & Denyer K* (2004) The lys5 mutations of barley reveal the nature and importance of plastidial ADP-glc transporters for starch synthesis in cereal endosperm. Plant Physiology 135, 2088-97
Johnson P, Patron NJ, Bottrill AR, Dinges JR, Fahy BF, Parker ML, Waite DN and Denyer K * (2003) A low-starch barley mutant, Riso 16 lacking the cytosolic small subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, reveals the importance of the cytosolic isoform and the identity of the plastidial small subunit. Plant Physiology 131, 684-96
Patron NJ, Smith AM, Fahy BF, Hylton CM, Naldrett M, Rossnagel BG & Denyer K (2002) The altered pattern of amylose accumulation in the endosperm of low-amylose barley cultivars is attributable to a single mutant allele of granule-bound starch synthase I with a deletion in the 5′ non-coding region. Plant Physiology 130, 190-198
SELECT ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Patron NJ, Slamovits CH, Rogers MB & Keeling PJ Enslaved eukaryotic genomes: the nuclei of secondary endosymbionts. International conference on marine algae and global warming (Korean society of phycology) October 16th-19th 2006, Seoul, Korea (invitation)
Patron NJ, Rogers MB and Keeling PJ Comparative rates of evolution in endosymbiotic nuclear genomes. International Society of Evolutionary Protistology. August 1-5 2006, Wroclaw, Poland.
Patron NJ & Keeling PJ Intracellular gene transfer in endosymbiotic genome integration. Arthur M Sacker Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences. The Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements. December 12-13 2005, Irvine, California, USA
Patron NJ, Waller RF & Keeling PJ Targeting to secondary red plastids Meeting of the Internation Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution, June 19-23 2005 Auckland, New Zealand
Patron NJ & Smith HG Host specificity in genus Polerovirus The XIth International Congress of Virology, August 9-13 1999 Sydney, Australia
Patron NJ, Mayo MA, Barker H, Liney MS & Smith HG Assessment of risks associated with growing virus resistant transgenic sugar beet. Aspects of Applied Biology; Sugar Beet and Potatoes December 1998, Cambridge, UK
BOOK CHAPTERS AND NON-SCIENCE PRESS
Kopriva S*, Patron NJ, Leustek T and Keeling PJ. (2008) Phylogenetic analysis of sulfate assimilation and cysteine biosynthesis in phototrophic organisms In Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms, Eds: C. Dahl, Hell, D. Knaff, and T. Leustek from the series Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration; Series Editor: Govindjee
Smith HG & Patron NJ (2000) Risk assessment of virus resistant transgenic sugar beet. British Sugar Beet Review 68 (2) 47-50
THESES
Patron NJ (1999) Diversity, epidemiology and the genetic control of host specificity in the genus Polerovirus. 248pp. PhD Thesis. University of East Anglia.
Patron NJ (1996) AGMV, A novel geminivirus BSc Thesis. University of East Anglia.