title: Something borrowed, something green: lateral transfer of chloroplasts by secondary endosymbiosis.
abstract: New molecular data confirm what electron microscopists long suspected - fusion of two different eukaryotic cells into a single more-complex cell created novel groups of protists. By engulfing an algal cell and putting it to work as a solar-powered food factory, heterotrophic protozoans became autotrophic. Drastically reduced, the engulfed cell now exists as an organelle in the host cell. Such blending of lineages was perhaps a driving force in early eukaryotic diversification.
authors.affiliation: Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, Univeristy of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: McFadden
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gilson