The plastid ancestor originated among one of the major cyanobacterial lineages

2014/09/15 by Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda, Rocío Esteban, María Luz Diago Egaña +2 · 97 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Anabaena #Ancestor #Bacteria #Biology #Chloroplast #Cyanobacteria #Endosymbiosis #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Heterocyst #Lineage (genetic) #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Most recent common ancestor #Phylogenetic tree #Phylogenetics #Plastid #Protist diversity and phylogeny

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/ncomms5937

published in Nature Communications 5(1), 4937 (Nature Portfolio)

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• Plastid [wikipedia]