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Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?

BACKGROUND: Ancient endosymbioses are responsible for the origins of mitochondria and plastids, and they contribute to the divergence of several major eukaryotic groups. Although chlamydiae, a group of obligate intracellular bacteria, are not found in plants, an unexpected number of chlamydial genes...

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Autores principales: Huang, Jinling, Gogarten, Johann Peter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2394758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r99