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A census of nuclear cyanobacterial recruits in the plant kingdom.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Makai Szabolcs, Li Xiao, Hussain Javeed, Cui Cuiju, Wang Yuesheng, Chen Mingjie, Yang Zhaowan, Ma Chuang, Guo An-Yuan, Zhou Yanhong, Chang Junli, Yang Guangxiao, He Guangyuan
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The plastids and mitochondria of the eukaryotic cell are of endosymbiotic origin. These events occurred ~2 billion years ago and produced significant changes in the genomes of the host and the endosymbiont. Previous studies demonstrated that the invasion of land affected plastids and mitochondria differently and that the paths of mitochondrial integration differed between animals and plants. Other studies...
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