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Genome of tiny predator with big appetite

The capture and enslavement of eukaryotic algae by unicellular predators to acquire photosynthesis was a major driving force in early eukaryotic diversification. A genome presented in BMC Biology provides a glimpse of how such a tiny predator might have preyed on red algae and detained them to creat...

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Autor principal: McFadden, Geoffrey Ian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6260725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30482182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-018-0610-8