Endosymbiosis: Did Plastids Evolve from a Freshwater Cyanobacterium?
2017 | journal article
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- Authors
- de Vries, Jan ; Archibald, John M
- Abstract
- Photosynthetic eukaryotes are the product of an endosymbiotic event between a eukaryotic host and a cyanobacterium that became today's plastid. A new phylogenomic study suggests that the closest relative of plastids among extant cyanobacteria is the recently discovered freshwater-dwelling Gloeomargarita lithophora.
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal
- Current Biology
- ISSN
- 0960-9822
- eISSN
- 1879-0445
- Language
- English