Endosymbiosis: Did Plastids Evolve from a Freshwater Cyanobacterium?
Abstract
Summary. 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.
- Publication:
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Current Biology
- Pub Date:
- February 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cub.2016.12.006
- Bibcode:
- 2017CBio...27.R103D