Evolutionary dynamics of the chromatophore genome in three photosynthetic Paulinella species

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 2560
• Main Authors: Lhee, Duckhyun, Ha, Ji-San, Kim, Sunju, Park, Myung Gil, Bhattacharya, Debashish, Yoon, Hwan Su
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 22.02.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 45; 45/23; 631/181/757; 631/449; Chromatophores; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; Gene deletion; Gene families; Genes; Genomes; Humanities and Social Sciences; Insertion; multidisciplinary; Nucleotide sequence; Paulinella; Plastids; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

The thecate amoeba Paulinella is a valuable model for understanding plastid organellogenesis because this lineage has independently gained plastids (termed chromatophores) of alpha-cyanobacterial provenance. Plastid primary endosymbiosis in Paulinella occurred relatively recently (90–140 million yea...