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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22044-z
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (Juan de la Cierva fellowship) [IJCI-2016-29566]
- European Research Council (ERC-StG `TerreStriAL') [852725]
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- NERC [NE/P00251X/1]
- Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) [2017-7-65, 2017-7-355, 2018-3-147, 2018-3-288, 2018-8-187, 2018-8-192, 2019-3-305]
- Science for Life Laboratory
- European Research Council (ERC) [852725] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Researchers evaluated the chronological possibility of proposed plastid origins and transmissions in eukaryotic phytoplankton through Bayesian molecular clock analyses. The study established a timeframe for the origin of red algal-derived plastids under scenarios of serial endosymbiosis, revealing that the hypotheses of serial endosymbiosis are chronologically possible.
In modern oceans, eukaryotic phytoplankton is dominated by lineages with red algal-derived plastids such as diatoms, dinoflagellates, and coccolithophores. Despite the ecological importance of these groups and many others representing a huge diversity of forms and lifestyles, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of their evolution and how they obtained their plastids. New hypotheses have emerged to explain the acquisition of red algal-derived plastids by serial endosymbiosis, but the chronology of these putative independent plastid acquisitions remains untested. Here, we establish a timeframe for the origin of red algal-derived plastids under scenarios of serial endosymbiosis, using Bayesian molecular clock analyses applied on a phylogenomic dataset with broad sampling of eukaryote diversity. We find that the hypotheses of serial endosymbiosis are chronologically possible, as the stem lineages of all red plastid-containing groups overlap in time. This period in the Meso- and Neoproterozoic Eras set the stage for the later expansion to dominance of red algal-derived primary production in the contemporary oceans, which profoundly altered the global geochemical and ecological conditions of the Earth. There are several competing hypotheses for the acquisition of red algal-derived plastids by eukaryotic phytoplankton. Here, the authors use Bayesian molecular clock analyses to evaluate the chronological possibility of the proposed plastid origins and transmissions.
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