ReviewThe New phytologist2015
When the lights go out: the evolutionary fate of free-living colorless green algae.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Agricultural soil microbiomes are structurally and functionally more resistant to warming than adjacent natural ecosystems.Nature food · 2026Pooled it
- Mitochondrial super complexes in the colorless chlorophycean alga Polytomella parva.Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes · 2026Article
- Chlorophyll a gradients shift heterotrophic bacterial assembly from dispersal limitation to biotic filtering of picophytoplankton.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella.The Plant cell · 2025Article
- Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green algabioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Herbicide glyphosate efficiently inhibits growth of pathogenicMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- Anticancer Properties of Macroalgae: A Comprehensive Review.Marine drugs · 2025Review
- Reduced plastid genomes of colorless facultative pathogens Prototheca (Chlorophyta) are retained for membrane transport genes.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Phylogeny and evolution of streptophyte algae.Annals of botany · 2024Review
- Complex Endosymbioses I: From Primary to Complex Plastids, Serial Endosymbiotic Events.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- The plastomes ofPlant direct · 2022Article
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- The Cryptic Plastid ofmSphere · 2020Article
- A non-photosynthetic green alga illuminates the reductive evolution of plastid electron transport systems.BMC biology · 2020Article
- Highly Reduced Plastid Genomes of the Non-photosynthetic DictyochophyceansFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Dynamic evolution of mitochondrial genomes in Trebouxiophyceae, including the first completely assembled mtDNA from a lichen-symbiont microalga (Trebouxia sp. TR9).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Complete chloroplast genomes of theMitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2017Article
- An intact plastid genome is essential for the survival of colorless Euglena longa but not Euglena gracilis.Current genetics · 2017Article
- Effect of light and prey availability on gene expression of the mixotrophic chrysophyte, Ochromonas sp.BMC genomics · 2017Article
- The Plastid Genome of Polytoma uvella Is the Largest Known among Colorless Algae and Plants and Reflects Contrasting Evolutionary Paths to Nonphotosynthetic Lifestyles.Plant physiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
The endosymbiotic origin of plastids was a launching point for eukaryotic evolution. The autotrophic abilities bestowed by plastids are responsible for much of the eukaryotic diversity we observe today. But despite its many advantages, photosynthesis has been lost numerous times and in disparate lineages throughout eukaryote evolution. For example, among green algae, several groups have lost photosynthesis independently and in response to different selective pressures; these include the parasitic/pathogenic trebouxiophyte genera Helicosporidium and Prototheca, and the free-living chlamydomonadalean genera Polytomella and Polytoma. Here, we examine the published data on colorless green algae and argue that investigations into the different evolutionary routes leading to their current nonphotosynthetic lifestyles provide exceptional opportunities to understand the ecological and genomic factors involved in the loss of photosynthesis.
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