title: ENDOSYMBIOTIC AND HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER IN CHROMALVEOLATES(1).
abstract: Chromalveolates include photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic (some plastid-lacking) algae and protists that define a vast swath of eukaryotic diversity. These taxa are masters of gene acquisition through serial endosymbiosis (endosymbiotic gene transfer, EGT) and horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Understanding the contribution of these sources to nuclear genomes is key to elucidating chromalveolate evolution and to identifying suitable phylogenetic markers to place this lineage in the tree of life. Here we briefly review recent findings in our lab with regard to EGT and HGT in chromalveolates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and the Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, 446 Biology Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1324, USA.
authors.forename: Debashish
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences and the Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, University of Iowa, 446 Biology Building, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1324, USA.
authors.forename: Tetyana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nosenko
keywords: chromalveolates; endosymbiosis; endosymbiotic gene transfer; horizontal gene transfer