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Reverse Evolution: Driving Forces Behind the Loss of Acquired Photosynthetic Traits

BACKGROUND: The loss of photosynthesis has occurred often in eukaryotic evolution, even more than its acquisition, which occurred at least nine times independently and which generated the evolution of the supergroups Archaeplastida, Rhizaria, Chromalveolata and Excavata. This secondary loss of autot...

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Autores principales: de Castro, Francisco, Gaedke, Ursula, Boenigk, Jens
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2794545/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20041159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008465