Evolutionary Dynamics of Cryptophyte Plastid Genomes
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Cryptophyte Plastid Genomes
Cryptophytes are an ecologically important group of largely photosynthetic unicellular eukaryotes. This lineage is of great interest to evolutionary biologists because their plastids are of red algal secondary endosymbiotic origin and the host cell retains four different genomes (host nuclear, mitochondrial, plastid, and red algal nucleomorph). Here, we report a comparative analysis of plastid ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genome Biology and Evolution
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1759-6653
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx123