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Overview

Hwan Su Yoon is affiliated with Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work delves into subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Aquatic Science.

The main topics addressed in Yoon's research include Marine and coastal plant biology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

The scientist has published multiple papers in several prominent academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Phycology
  • Phycologia
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Genome-wide signatures of adaptation to extreme environments in red algae," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "A genome-wide investigation of the effect of farming and human-mediated introduction on the ubiquitous seaweed Undaria pinnatifida," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Evolutionary genomics of the emergence of brown algae as key components of coastal ecosystems," 2024, Cell
  • "Revised classification of the Cyanidiophyceae based on plastid genome data with descriptions of the Cavernulicolales ord. nov. and Galdieriales ord. nov. (Rhodophyta)," 2023, Journal of Phycology
  • "High-quality genome assembles from key Hawaiian coral species," 2022, GigaScience

Yoon frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Debashish Bhattacharya
  • Chung Hyun Cho
  • Louis Graf
  • Jihoon Jo
  • Ga Hun Boo

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Plant ABC Transporters Enable Many Unique Aspects of a Terrestrial Plant's Lifestyle

    Jae-Ung Hwang;Won-Yong Song;Daewoong Hong;Donghwi Ko

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

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

  • 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

  • Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum

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

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

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

  • Hidden biodiversity of the extremophilic Cyanidiales red algae.

    Claudia Ciniglia;Hwan Su Yoon;Antonino Pollio;Gabriele Pinto

  • Insights into a dinoflagellate genome through expressed sequence tag analysis

    Jeremiah D Hackett;Todd E Scheetz;Hwan Su Yoon;Marcelo B Soares

  • Tertiary Endosymbiosis Driven Genome Evolution in Dinoflagellate Algae

    Hwan Su Yoon;Jeremiah D. Hackett;Frances M. Van Dolah;Tetyana Nosenko

  • Divergence time estimates and the evolution of major lineages in the florideophyte red algae.

    Eun Chan Yang;Sung Min Boo;Debashish Bhattacharya;Gary W. Saunders

  • Broadly sampled multigene trees of eukaryotes.

    Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Jessica Grant;Yonas I Tekle;Min Wu

  • Phylogeny of Alariaceae, Laminariaceae, and Lessoniaceae (Phaeophyceae) Based on Plastid-Encoded RuBisCo Spacer and Nuclear-Encoded ITS Sequence Comparisons

    Hwan Su Yoon;Hwan Su Yoon;Ju Yeon Lee;Sung Min Boo;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • Algal endosymbionts as vectors of horizontal gene transfer in photosynthetic eukaryotes.

    Huan Qiu;Hwan Su Yoon;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • PHYLOGENETIC EVIDENCE FOR THE CRYPTOPHYTE ORIGIN OF THE PLASTID OF DINOPHYSIS (DINOPHYSIALES, DINOPHYCEAE)1

    Jeremiah D. Hackett;Lucie Maranda;Hwan Su Yoon;Debashish Bhattacharya

  • Data mining approach identifies research priorities and data requirements for resolving the red algal tree of life

    Heroen Verbruggen;Christine A Maggs;Gary W Saunders;Line Le Gall

Frequent Co-Authors

Debashish Bhattacharya
Debashish Bhattacharya Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andreas P. M. Weber
Andreas P. M. Weber Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Wendy A. Nelson
Wendy A. Nelson University of Auckland
Steven G. Ball
Steven G. Ball University of Lille
Heinz Himmelbauer
Heinz Himmelbauer BOKU University
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee
Michael Melkonian
Michael Melkonian Max Planck Society
J. Mark Cock
J. Mark Cock Sorbonne University
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Dominique Marie
Dominique Marie Sorbonne University

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