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SCIENCE
Volume 324, Issue 5935, Pages 1724-1726Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172983
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- NSF
- NIH [EF 04-31117, R01ES013679]
- Institutional National Research Service Award [T 32 GM98629]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Diatoms and other chromalveolates are among the dominant phytoplankters in the world's oceans. Endosymbiosis was essential to the success of chromalveolates, and it appears that the ancestral plastid in this group had a red algal origin via an ancient secondary endosymbiosis. However, recent analyses have turned up a handful of nuclear genes in chromalveolates that are of green algal derivation. Using a genome-wide approach to estimate the green contribution to diatoms, we identified >1700 green gene transfers, constituting 16% of the diatom nuclear coding potential. These genes were probably introduced into diatoms and other chromalveolates from a cryptic endosymbiont related to prasinophyte-like green algae. Chromalveolates appear to have recruited genes from the two major existing algal groups to forge a highly successful, species-rich protist lineage.
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