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A single origin of the photosynthetic organelle in different Paulinella lineages

BACKGROUND: Gaining the ability to photosynthesize was a key event in eukaryotic evolution because algae and plants form the base of the food chain on our planet. The eukaryotic machines of photosynthesis are plastids (e.g., chloroplast in plants) that evolved from cyanobacteria through primary endo...

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Autores principales: Yoon, Hwan Su, Nakayama, Takuro, Reyes-Prieto, Adrian, Andersen, Robert A, Boo, Sung Min, Ishida, Ken-ichiro, Bhattacharya, Debashish
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19439085
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-98