| Title |
Are algal genes in nonphotosynthetic protists evidence of historical plastid endosymbioses?
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| Published in |
BMC Genomics, October 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-10-484 |
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| Authors |
John W Stiller, Jinling Huang, Qin Ding, Jing Tian, Carol Goodwillie |
| Abstract |
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 numerous plastid losses from certain heterotrophic groups that now are entirely aplastidic. In this context, discoveries of putatively algal genes in plastid-lacking protists have been cited as evidence of gene transfer from a photosynthetic endosymbiont that subsequently was lost completely. Here we examine this evidence, as it pertains to the chromalveolate hypothesis, through genome-level statistical analyses of similarity scores from queries with two diatoms, Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Thalassiosira pseudonana, and two aplastidic sister taxa, Phytophthora ramorum and P. sojae. |
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| Czechia | 2 | 3% |
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| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
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| Student > Master | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 9% |
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| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 11% |
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| Computer Science | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
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