Browsing by Subject "organelle loss"

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    • Endosymbiosis undone by stepwise elimination of the plastid in a parasitic dinoflagellate 

      Gornik, Sebastian G.; Febrimarsa,; Cassin, Andrew M.; MacRae, James I.; Ramaprasad, Abhinay; Rchiad, Zineb; McConville, Malcolm J.; Bacic, Antony; McFadden, Geoffrey I.; Pain, Arnab; Waller, Ross F. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015-04-20)
      Organelle gain through endosymbiosis has been integral to the origin and diversification of eukaryotes, and, once gained, plastids and mitochondria seem seldom lost. Indeed, discovery of nonphotosynthetic plastids in many ...