Publications:
Tekle Y. I., Grant J.,
Cole J., Nerad T. A., Patterson D. J., Anderson O. R., Katz L. A.
in press. Phylogenetic placement of diverse amoebae inferred
from multigene analysis and assessment of the stability of clades
within ‘Amoebozoa’ upon removal of varying fast rate
classes of SSU-rDNA. Mol. Phylog. and Evol.
DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.11.015
Yoon, H. S., J. Grant, Y. I. Tekle, M. Wu, B. C. Chaon, J. C. Cole, J. M. Logsdon, D. J. Patterson, D. Bhattacharya, L. A. Katz. 2008. in press. A Broadly Sampled Multigene Tree of Eukaryotes. BMC Evolutionary Biology
Tekle,Y.
I., Grant J., Cole J.C., Nerad T.A., Anderson O.R.,
Patterson D.J., Katz L., 2007. A Multigene Analysis of
Corallomyxa tenera sp. nov. Suggests its Membership in a
Clade that Includes Gromia, Haplosporidia and Foraminifera.
Protist doi:10.1016/j.protis.2007.05.002
Tekle Y. I., Raikova, O., Justine,
J-L. and
Jondelius, U. 2007. Ultrastructure and Tubulin
Immunocytochemistry
of the Copulatory Stylet-like structure in Childia species
(Acoela). Journal of Morphology 268:166–180.
Tekle, Y. I., Raikova, O., Justine,
J-L.,
Hendelberg, J. and Jondelius, U. 2007. Ultrastructural and
immunocytochemical investigation of acoel sperms with 9 + 1 axoneme
structure: new sperm characters for unraveling phylogeny in Acoela.
Zoomorphology 126:1-16.
Raikova,
O.I., Tekle, Y. I., Reuter, M.,
Gustafsson, M.K.,
Jondelius, U. 2006. Copulatory organ musculaturein
Childia
(Acoela) as revealed by phalloidin fluorescence and
confocal
microscopy. Tissue Cell 38(4):219-32.
Tekle, Y. I., Raikova, O. and
Jondelius, U.
2006. A new viviparous acoel Childia vivipara
sp. n. with
observations on the developing embryos, sperm
ultrastructure, body
wall and stylet musculatures. Acta
Zoologica 87:121–130.
Ogunlana, M.V., Hooge, M. D., Tekle, Y.
I.,
Benayahu, Y., Barneah, O., and Tyler, S. 2005. Waminoa
brickneri n. sp. (Acoela: Acoelomorpha) associated with corals
in the Red Sea. Zootaxa 1008:1-11.
Tekle, Y. I., Raikova O., Ahmadzadeh,
A., and
Jondelius, U. 2005. Revision of the Childiidae (Acoela), a
total
evidence approach in reconstructing the phylogeny of acoels
with
reversed muscle layers. J. Zool. Systemat. Evol. Res.
43(1):72–90.
Tekle, Y. I.
2004. A new
Haploposthia species (Acoela) from the
Swedish west coast.
Sarsia 89:85–90.
Theses:
Tekle, Y.
I. 2006.
Phylogeny and Taxonomy of
Childia (Acoela): New characters
for
unraveling ac:oel phylogenies from molecules, ultrastructure,
immunocytochemistry and confocal microscopy. Acta Universitatis
Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from
the Faculty of Science and Technology; 140. 44 pp. Uppsala.
Tekle, Y. I. 2004. Evolution of the
Acoela, with
emphasis on the Childiidae, acoels with reversed
body-wall
musculature. (Licentiate Thesis, Department of Systematic
Zoology,
Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University).
Tekle, Y. I. 2002. Can Histone H3
alone or
combined with 18S rDNA and Elongation factor 1-alpha solve
the
phylogenetic position of the Acoela? (Master’s Thesis,
Department of Systematic Zoology, Evolutionary Biology Centre,
Uppsala University)
Manuscripts in
review/in preparation:
Tekle,
Y. I., Parfrey L.W., Katz L.A. Origin and diversification of
Eukaryotes. (submitted to Bioscience)
Cole J., Andersen O.R., Tekle Y. I., J. Grant,
Katz L. A., Nerad T. A Description of a New ‘Amoebozoa’
isolated from the American Lobster, Homarus americanus.
(submitted to JEM)
Grant J.,
Tekle, Y. I., Katz, L.A. Phylogenetic
placement of Leukarachnion Geitler, 1942 inferred from
multigene analyses. (in prep.)
Tekle, Y. I., Grant J., Kovner, A., Katz,
L. Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the
eukaryotic tree of life. (in prep.)
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