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Nucleomorph genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Chroomonas mesostigmatica CCMP1168 reveals lineage-specific gene loss and genome complexity.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2012
Moore Christa E, Curtis Bruce, Mills Tyler, Tanifuji Goro, Archibald John M
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Cryptophytes are a diverse lineage of marine and freshwater, photosynthetic and secondarily nonphotosynthetic algae that acquired their plastids (chloroplasts) by "secondary" (i.e., eukaryote-eukaryote) endosymbiosis. Consequently, they are among the most genetically complex cells known and have four genomes: a mitochondrial, plastid, "master" nuclear, and residual nuclear genome of secondary endosymbiotic...
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