title: Single, ancient origin of a plastid metabolite translocator family in Plantae from an endomembrane-derived ancestor.
abstract: Phylogenetic analyses show the single origin of a plastid metabolite translocator family in the Plantae from a gene encoding an existing endomembrane-derived protein. Red algal secondary endosymbiosis has spread a translocator gene into the ancestor of the "chromalveolate" protists, where it has diversified into a novel clade of proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, 446 Biology Building, Iowa City, IA 52242-1324, USA.
authors.forename: Andreas P M
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Linka
authors.forename: Debashish
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
mesh_terms: D001499:Bayes Theorem; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017343:Genes, Plant; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D013559:Symbiosis