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The puzzle of plastid evolution.
Curr Biol. 2009 Jan 27;19(2):R81-8
Authors: Archibald JM
Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of the origin and spread of plastids remains an important yet elusive goal in the field of eukaryotic evolution. Combined with the discovery of new photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic protist lineages, the results of recent taxonomically broad phylogenomic studies suggest that a re-shuffling of higher-level eukaryote systematics is in order. Consequently, new models of plastid evolution involving ancient secondary and tertiary endosymbioses are needed to explain the full spectrum of photosynthetic eukaryotes.
PMID: 19174147 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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