Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist
Researcher at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and immunology
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 270 16 88
- E-mail:
- jon.jerlstrom.hultqvist@icm.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Husargatan 3
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 596
751 24 Uppsala
Keywords
- microbiology
- molecular evolution
- evolution
- horizontal gene transfer
- evolutionary genomics
- anaerobic protists
- anaeramoeba
- hydrogenosome
- syntrophy
- symbiosome
- anaerobiosis
- ectosymbiosis

Publications
Recent publications
The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
Part of Scientific Data, 2025
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Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the social amoeba Dictyostelium firmibasis
Part of Scientific Data, 2024
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A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Part of Science Advances, 2024
- DOI for Nitrogen fixation in the widely distributed marine γ-proteobacterial diazotroph Candidatus Thalassolituus haligoni
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All publications
Articles in journal
The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad
Part of Scientific Data, 2025
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Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the social amoeba Dictyostelium firmibasis
Part of Scientific Data, 2024
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A unique symbiosome in an anaerobic single-celled eukaryote
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Extreme mitochondrial reduction in a novel group of free-living metamonads
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Part of Science Advances, 2024
- DOI for Nitrogen fixation in the widely distributed marine γ-proteobacterial diazotroph Candidatus Thalassolituus haligoni
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Meteora sporadica, a protist with incredible cell architecture, is related to Hemimastigophora
Part of Current Biology, 2024
Draft genomes of Blastocystis subtypes from human samples of Colombia
Part of Parasites & Vectors, 2023
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Massive intein content in Anaeramoeba reveals aspects of intein mobility in eukaryotes
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
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RNA interactome capture in Escherichia coli globally identifies RNA-binding proteins
Part of Nucleic Acids Research, p. 4572-4587, 2023
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Ancient and pervasive expansion of adaptin-related vesicle coat machinery across Parabasalia
Part of International Journal of Parasitology, p. 233-245, 2023
Part of Genomics, 2022
- DOI for Comprehensive characterization of Cysteine-rich protein-coding genes of Giardia lamblia and their role during antigenic variation
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Structure and mechanism of a phage-encoded SAM lyase revises catalytic function of enzyme family
Part of eLIFE, 2021
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A Detailed Gene Expression Map of Giardia Encystation
Part of Genes, p. 1932, 2021
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Part of Nature Communications, 2021
- DOI for Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist
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Part of Current Biology, p. 5605-561200000, 2021
- DOI for Anaeramoebae are a divergent lineage of eukaryotes that shed light on the transition from anaerobic mitochondria to hydrogenosomes
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Evolution of a New Function by Fusion between Phage DNA and a Bacterial Gene
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1329-1341, 2020
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Part of Microbial Genomics, 2020
Part of BMC Biology, 2019
- DOI for Oxygen induces the expression of invasion and stress response genes in the anaerobic salmon parasite Spironucleus salmonicida
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Proximity Staining using Enzymatic Protein Tagging in Diplomonads
Part of mSphere, 2019
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Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 1321-1330, 2018
Part of BMC Biology, 2016
- DOI for On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp PC1
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Comparative cell biology and evolution of Annexins in Diplomonads
Part of mSphere, 2016
Comparative genomic analyses of freshly isolated Giardia intestinalis assemblage A isolates
Part of BMC Genomics, 2015
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2014
- DOI for The genome of Spironucleus salmonicida highlights a fish pathogen adapted to fluctuating environments
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Transcriptome Profiling of Giardia intestinalis Using Strand-specific RNAseq
Part of PloS Computational Biology, 2013
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Hydrogenosomes in the diplomonad Spironucleus salmonicida
Part of Nature Communications, p. 2493, 2013
Part of Eukaryotic Cell, p. 864-873, 2012
Laboratory cryo soft X-ray microscopy
Part of Journal of Structural Biology, p. 267-272, 2012
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 2895-2898, 2012
Stable transfection of the diplomonad parasite Spironucleus salmonicida
Part of Eukaryotic Cell, p. 1353-1361, 2012
Part of BMC Genomics, 2010
- DOI for Large genomic differences between the morphologically indistinguishable diplomonads Spironucleus barkhanus and Spironucleus salmonicida
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Genome analysis and comparative genomics of a Giardia intestinalis assemblage E isolate.
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 543, 2010
Part of PLoS Pathogens, 2009
Spironucleus mitochondrial remnants suggest that hydrogenosomes are ancient organelles
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Articles, review/survey
Evolution of New Functions De Novo and from Preexisting Genes
Part of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2015
Behind the smile: cell biology and disease mechanisms of Giardia species
Part of Nature Reviews Microbiology, p. 413-422, 2010
Chapters in book
The genome of Giardia and other diplomonads
Part of Anaerobic Parasitic Protozoa: Genomics and Molecular Biology, p. 23-44, Caister Academic Press, 2010