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Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?

BACKGROUND: How photosynthetic organelles, or plastids, were acquired by diverse eukaryotes is among the most hotly debated topics in broad scale eukaryotic evolution. The history of plastid endosymbioses commonly is interpreted under the "chromalveolate" hypothesis, which requires numerou...

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Autores principales: Stiller, John W, Huang, Jinling, Ding, Qin, Tian, Jing, Goodwillie, Carol
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2770532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19843329
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-484