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Overview

Debashish Bhattacharya is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on interdisciplinary fields related to marine and microbial ecology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

The subfields of study relevant to their research include:

  • Ecology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics

Frequent publication venues where their work appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Phycology
  • BMC Biology
  • Science Advances

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bhattacharya include:

  • Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotes: Not if, but How Much?, 2020, Trends in Genetics
  • Pyropia yezoensis genome reveals diverse mechanisms of carbon acquisition in the intertidal environment, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genomes of the dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis encode tandemly repeated single-exon genes with adaptive functions, 2020, BMC Biology
  • Comparison of 15 dinoflagellate genomes reveals extensive sequence and structural divergence in family Symbiodiniaceae and genus Symbiodinium, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Metabolomic shifts associated with heat stress in coral holobionts, 2021, Science Advances

Their frequently collaborating coauthors include:

  • Timothy G. Stephens
  • Cheong Xin Chan
  • Yibi Chen
  • Katherine E. Dougan
  • Sarah Shah

Best Publications

  • A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes

    Hwan Su Yoon;Jeremiah D. Hackett;Claudia Ciniglia;Gabriele Pinto

  • The Single, Ancient Origin of Chromist Plastids

    Hwan Su Yoon;Jeremiah D. Hackett;Gabriele Pinto;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jae-Hyeok Lee;Thomas Mock;Pierre Rouzé

  • Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

    Eiichi Shoguchi;Chuya Shinzato;Takeshi Kawashima;Fuki Gyoja

  • Genomic Footprints of a Cryptic Plastid Endosymbiosis in Diatoms

    Ahmed Moustafa;Bánk Beszteri;Uwe G. Maier;Chris Bowler;Chris Bowler

  • Dinoflagellates: a remarkable evolutionary experiment

    Jeremiah D. Hackett;Donald M. Anderson;Deana L. Erdner;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • The Origin and Establishment of the Plastid in Algae and Plants

    Adrian Reyes-Prieto;and Andreas P.M. Weber;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • A single origin of the peridinin- and fucoxanthin-containing plastids in dinoflagellates through tertiary endosymbiosis

    Hwan Su Yoon;Jeremiah D. Hackett;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • Cyanophora paradoxa Genome Elucidates Origin of Photosynthesis in Algae and Plants

    Dana C. Price;Cheong Xin Chan;Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Eun Chan Yang

  • The natural history of group I introns.

    Peik Haugen;Dawn M. Simon;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • Photosynthetic eukaryotes unite: endosymbiosis connects the dots

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Hwan Su Yoon;Jeremiah D. Hackett

  • DEFINING THE MAJOR LINEAGES OF RED ALGAE (RHODOPHYTA)1

    Hwan Su Yoon;Kirsten M. Müller;Robert G. Sheath;Franklyn D. Ott

  • THE PHYLOGENY OF PLASTIDS: A REVIEW BASED ON COMPARISONS OF SMALL-SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA CODING REGIONS

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Linda Medlin

  • Algal Phylogeny and the Origin of Land Plants

    Debashish Bhattacharya;and Linda Medlin

  • Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Organismal Interactions in Uncultivated Marine Protists

    Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Dana C. Price;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Veeran D. Rajah

  • Horizontal gene transfer of the algal nuclear gene psbO to the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia chlorotica.

    Mary E. Rumpho;Jared M. Worful;Jungho Lee;Krishna Kannan

  • Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome of Porphyra umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)

    Susan H. Brawley;Nicolas A. Blouin;Nicolas A. Blouin;Elizabeth Ficko-Blean;Glen L. Wheeler

  • Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Monophyly of Cryptophytes and Haptophytes and the Association of Rhizaria with Chromalveolates

    Jeremiah D. Hackett;Jeremiah D. Hackett;Hwan Su Yoon;Shenglan Li;Adrian Reyes-Prieto

  • Remodeling of intermediate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrogen stress

    Orly Levitan;Jorge Dinamarca;Ehud Zelzion;Desmond S. Lun;Desmond S. Lun

  • Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

    Debashish Bhattacharya;Dana C. Price;Cheong Xin Chan;Huan Qiu

  • Evaluating Support for the Current Classification of Eukaryotic Diversity

    Laura Wegener Parfrey;Erika Barbero;Elyse Lasser;Micah Saul Dunthorn

  • Proteomic analysis of skeletal organic matrix from the stony coral Stylophora pistillata

    Jeana L. Drake;Tali Mass;Liti Haramaty;Ehud Zelzion

  • Migration of the plastid genome to the nucleus in a peridinin dinoflagellate.

    Jeremiah D. Hackett;Hwan Su Yoon;M. Bento Soares;Maria F. Bonaldo

Frequent Co-Authors

Hwan Su Yoon
Hwan Su Yoon Sungkyunkwan University
Andreas P. M. Weber
Andreas P. M. Weber Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mark A. Ragan
Mark A. Ragan University of Queensland
Ahmed A. Moustafa
Ahmed A. Moustafa Bond University
Hollie M. Putnam
Hollie M. Putnam University of Rhode Island
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Arthur R. Grossman
Arthur R. Grossman Carnegie Institution for Science
Steven G. Ball
Steven G. Ball University of Lille
Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
Senjie Lin
Senjie Lin University of Connecticut

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