Genomics and chloroplast evolution: what did cyanobacteria do for plants?
The complete genome sequences of cyanobacteria and of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana leave no doubt that the plant chloroplast originated, through endosymbiosis, from a cyanobacterium. But the genomic legacy of cyanobacterial ancestry extends far beyond the chloroplast itself, and persists in organisms that have lost chloroplasts completely.
Raven
John A
JA
Division of Environmental and Applied Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK. j.a.raven@dundee.ac.uk
Allen
John F
JF
D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000166:cytology / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D059828:Plant Cells; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*