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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages R81-R88Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.067
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- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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A comprehensive understanding of the origin and spread of plastids remains an important yet elusive goal in the field of eukaryotic evolution. Combined with the discovery of new photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic protist lineages, the results of recent taxonomically broad phylogenomic studies suggest that a re-shuffling of higher-level eukaryote systematics is in order. Consequently, new models of plastid evolution involving ancient secondary and tertiary endosymbioses are needed to explain the full spectrum of photosynthetic eukaryotes.
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