Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2008) The origin of the oxygen-evolving complex. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, In Press. (IR, R)
Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2008) Evolution of type I photosynthetic reaction centers. In: Structure of Photosynthetic Proteins, P Fromme, Ed., Wiley-VCH, In press. (IR)
Swingley WD, Blankenship RE and Raymond J, (2008) Using automated Markov clustering to reconstruct the cyanobacterial species tree from conserved protein families. Molecular Biology and Evolution. In Press. (R)
Blankenship RE and Haffa A (2008) Why we need to teach the evolution of photosynthesis. In: Proc. 14th Int. Cong. On Photosynthesis Research, Glasgow, UK, In Press. (CP)
Chen M, Zhang Y and Blankenship RE (2008) Nomenclature for membrane-bound lightharvesting complexes of cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis Research, In Press. (R)
Rensing SA, Lang D, Zimmer A, Terry A, SalamovA, Shapiro H, Nishiyama T, Perroud P-F, Lindquist E, Kamisugi Y, Tanahashi T, Sakakibara K, Fujita T, Oishi K, Shin-I T, Kuroki Y, Toyoda A, Suzuki Y, Hashimoto S, Yamaguchi K, Sugano S, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Anterola A, Aoki S, Ashton N, Barbazuk WB, Barker E, Bennetzen J, Blankenship R, Cho SH, Dutcher S, Estelle M, Fawcett JA, Gundlach H, Hanada K, Heyl A, Hicks KA, Hughes J, Lohr M, Mayer K, Melkozernov A, Murata T, Nelson D, Pils B, Prigge M, Reiss B, Renner T, Rombauts S, Rushton P, Sanderfoot A, Schween G, Shiu SH, Stueber K, Theodoulou FL, Tu H3, Van de Peer Y, Verrier PJ, Waters E, Wood A, Yang L, Cove D, Cuming AC, Hasebe M, Lucas S, Mishler BD, Reski R, GrigorievI, Quatrano RS and Boore JL (2008) The genome of the moss Physcomitrella patens reveals evolutionary insights into the conquest of land by plants. Science, In Press. (R)
Swingley WD, Chen M, Cheung PC, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Hao J, Honchak BM, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Miyashita H, Page LE, Ramakrishna P, Satoh S, Sattley WM, Shimada Y, Taylor HL, Tomo T, Tsuchiya T, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Mimuro M, Blankenship RE and Touchman JW (2008) Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. USA, In Press. (R)
Rathgeber C, Lince M, Alric J, Lang AS, Humphrey E, Blankenship RE, Verméglio A, Plumley FG, Van Dover CL, Beatty JT and Yurkov V (2008) Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. In revision. (R)
Read EL, Schlau-Cohen G, Engel GS, Wen J, Blankenship RE, Fleming GR (2008) Visualization of Excitonic Structure in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Photosynthetic Complex by Polarization-Dependent Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. Submitted. (R)
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 and Touchman JW (2008) The complete genome sequence of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, an endospore-forming, thermophilic, anoxygenic phototroph. Submitted. (R)
Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2008) Introduction to photosynthesis. In: Photosynthesis, J Eaton-Rye, Ed. In Preparation. (IR)
Swingley WD, Gholba S, Mastrian SD, Matthies HJ, Hao J, Ramos H, Acharya CR, Conrad AL, Taylor HL, Dejesa LC, Shah MK, O’Huallachain ME, Lince MT, Blankenship RE, Beatty JT and Touchman JW (2007) The Complete Genome Sequence of Roseobacter denitrificans Reveals a Mixotrophic Rather than Photosynthetic Metabolism. J. Bacteriology 189: 683-690. (R)
Kiang N, Siefert J, Govindjee, Blankenship RE, (2007) Spectral Signatures of Photosynthesis. I. Review of Earth Organisms. Astrobiology 7: 222-251. (R)
Kiang N, Segura A, Tinetti G, Govindjee, Blankenship RE, Cohen M, Siefert J, Crisp D and Meadows VS (2007) Spectral signatures of photosynthesis. II. Coevolution with other stars and the atmosphere on extrasolar worlds. Astrobiology 7: 252-274. (R)
Blankenship RE, Sadekar S and Raymond J (2007) The Evolutionary Transition from Anoxygenic to Oxygenic Photosynthesis. In: Evolution of Aquatic Photoautotrophs, Falkowski P and Knoll AN, Eds, Academic Press, New York, pps 21-35. (IR)
Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2007) Variable fluorescence in green sulfur bacteria. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1767: 106-113. (R)
Blankenship RE and Govindjee (2007) Photosynthesis, In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, NY, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.511700. http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=511700 (IR)
Govindjee, Blankenship RE and Shopes RJ (2007) Bacterial Photosynthesis, In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, NY, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.511700. http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=511700 (IR)
Olson TL, van de Meene AML, Francis JN, Pierson BK and Blankenship RE (2007) Pigment Analysis of “Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila”, a Green Filamentous Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacterium. J. Bacteriology 189: 4187-4195. (R)
van de Meene AML, Olson TL, Collins AM and Blankenship RE (2007) Initial Characterization of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of “Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila”: A Filamentous, Anoxygenic Photoautotroph. J. Bacteriology 189: 4196-4203. (R)
Engel GS, Calhoun TR, Read EL, Ahn TK, Mancal T, Cheng Y-C, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR (2007) Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems. Nature 446: 782-786. (R)
Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE, (2007) Hypothesis on chlorosome biogenesis in green photosynthetic bacteria. FEBS Lett. 581: 800-803. (R)
Blankenship RE, Raymond J, Staples C and Mukhopadhyay B (2007) Evolution of functional diversity in nitrogenase homologs. Proc. 15th Int. Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, In Press. (CP)
Read EL, Engel GS, Calhoun TR, Mancal T, Ahn TK, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR (2007) Cross-Peak Specific Two Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 14203-14208. (R)
Staples CR, Lahiri S, Raymond J, Von Herbulis L, Mukhophadhyay B and Blankenship RE (2007) The Expression and Association of Group IV Nitrogenase NifD And NifH Homologs in the Non-Nitrogen Fixing Archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. J. Bacteriology 189: 7392-7398. (R)
Swingley WD, Blankenship RE and Raymond J, (2007) Insights into cyanobacterial evolution from comparative genomics. In: Genomics and Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria, Herrero A and Flores E, Eds., Horizon Scientific Press, Norwich, UK. pps. 22-43. (IR)
Xin Y, Lin S and Blankenship RE (2007) Femtosecond spectroscopy of the primary charge separation in reaction centers of Chloroflexus aurantiacus with selective excitation in Qy and Soret bands. J. Phys. Chem. 111: 9367-9373. (R)
Blankenship RE (2007) Evolution of Anoxygenic and Oxygenic Photosynthesis. In: Photosynthesis: A Comprehensive Treatise. Physiology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology. Volume 2, Tripathy B, Ed. Springer, Dordrecht, In Preparation. (IR)
Blankenship RE (2007) 2007 Awards of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR). Photosynthesis Research, 94: 179-181. (CP)
Melkozernov AN, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2006) Light-harvesting in photosystem I supercomplexes. Biochemistry 45: 331-345. (IR, R)
Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2006) How did the Photosystem I Reaction Center Evolve? In: Photosystem I: The Light-Driven, Plastocyanin:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase. J Golbeck, Ed, Springer, Dordrecht, pps 669-682. (IR)
Blankenship RE (2006) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions, Chapter 7 in: Plant Physiology, 4th Ed., L Taiz and E Zeiger, Eds., Sinauer Publishing, 125-158. (IR, R)
Sadekar S, Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2006) Conservation of Distantly Related Membrane Proteins: Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Share a Common Structural Core. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 23: 2001-2007. (R)
Brixner T, Stenger J, Vaswani HM, Cho M, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR (2006) Electronic 2D Spectroscopy of Light Harvesting. In: Femtochemistry VII: Fundamental Ultrafast Processes in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Castleman AW Jr., Kimble ML, Eds., Elsevier Science, 331-336. (CP)
Melkozernov AN and Blankenship RE (2006) Photosynthetic Functions of Chlorophylls. In: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Vol. 25, B Grimm, RJ Porra, W Rüdiger and H Scheer, Eds, Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Functions and Applications. Springer, Dordrecht, 397-412. (IR)
Raymond, J. and Blankenship, R. E. (2003) Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal evolution. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 7419-7420. (IR)
Montaño, G. A., H.-M. Wu, S. Lin, D. C. Brune and R. E. Blankenship (2003) Isolation and Characterization of the B798 Baseplate Light-Harvesting Complex from the Chlorosomes of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 42, 10246-10251. (R)
Montaño, G. A., B. P. Bowen, J. T. LaBelle, N. W. Woodbury, V. B. Pizziconi and R. E. Blankenship (2003) Characterization of Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes- A calculation of bacteriochlorophyll c per chlorosome and oligomer modeling. Biophys. J. 85, 2560-2565. (R)
Melkozernov A. N. and Blankenship R. E. (2003) Structural modeling of the Lhca4 subunit of LHCI-730 peripheral antenna in photosystem I based on similarity with LHCII. J. Biol. Chem. 278: 44542 - 44551. (R)