Heterotachy processes in rhodophyte-derived second-hand plastid genes: implications for addressing the origin and evolution of dinoflagellate plastids Research article to MBE
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* Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Dep. of Biology, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway; ** Program for Plankton Biology, Dep. of Biology, University of Oslo, N-0316, Oslo, Norway. † Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden; ‡ Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742 USA; § USIT, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway;
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Heterotachy processes in rhodophyte-derived secondhand plastid genes: Implications for addressing the origin and evolution of dinoflagellate plastids.
Serial transfer of plastids from one eukaryotic host to another is the key process involved in evolution of secondhand plastids. Such transfers drastically change the environment of the plastids and hence the selection regimes, presumably leading to changes over time in the characteristics of plastid gene evolution and to misleading phylogenetic inferences. About half of the dinoflagellate prot...
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