Algal genomics: exploring the imprint of endosymbiosis.
The nuclear genomes of photosynthetic eukaryotes are littered with genes derived from the cyanobacterial progenitor of modern-day plastids. A genomic analysis of Cyanophora paradoxa - a deeply diverged unicellular alga - suggests that the abundance and functional diversity of nucleus-encoded genes of cyanobacterial origin differs in plants and algae.
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John M
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The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. jmarchib@dal.ca
D005075:Biological Evolution; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000235:genetics*; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D044424:Cyanophora / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D016678:Genome; D023281:Genomics; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics*