ReviewThe New phytologist2019
Horizontal and endosymbiotic gene transfer in early plastid evolution.
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- Recent plastid replacement in Karlodinium ballantinum (Kareniaceae, Dinoflagellata) challenges the paradigms of endosymbiotic gene transfer.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Nucleomorph phylogenomics suggests a deep and ancient origin of cryptophyte plastids within Rhodophyta.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Transient molecular chimerism for exploiting xenogeneic organelles.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Loss of state transitions in Bryopsidales macroalgae and kleptoplastic sea slugs (Gastropoda, Sacoglossa).Communications biology · 2025Article
- Long-term functional kleptoplasty in benthic foraminifera.iScience · 2025Article
- Identification and characterization of archaeal pseudomurein biosynthesis genes through pangenomics.mSystems · 2025Article
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- Putative MutS2 Homologs in Algae: More Goods in Shopping Bag?Journal of molecular evolution · 2024Article
- Factors contributing to organelle genomes size variation and the intracellular DNA transfer in Polygonaceae.BMC genomics · 2024Article
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- Endosymbioses Have Shaped the Evolution of Biological Diversity and Complexity Time and Time Again.Genome biology and evolution · 2024Review
- New plastids, old proteins: repeated endosymbiotic acquisitions in kareniacean dinoflagellates.EMBO reports · 2024Article
- Chlamydiae as symbionts of photosynthetic dinoflagellates.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Diversification of Plastid Structure and Function in Land Plants.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- How Did Thylakoids Emerge in Cyanobacteria, and How Were the Primary Chloroplast and Chromatophore Acquired?Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Taming the perils of photosynthesis by eukaryotes: constraints on endosymbiotic evolution in aquatic ecosystems.Communications biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Plastids evolved from a cyanobacterium that was engulfed by a heterotrophic eukaryotic host and became a stable organelle. Some of the resulting eukaryotic algae entered into a number of secondary endosymbioses with diverse eukaryotic hosts. These events had major consequences on the evolution and diversification of life on Earth. Although almost all plastid diversity derives from a single endosymbiotic event, the analysis of nuclear genomes of plastid-bearing lineages has revealed a mosaic origin of plastid-related genes. In addition to cyanobacterial genes, plastids recruited for their functioning eukaryotic proteins encoded by the host nucleus and also bacterial proteins of noncyanobacterial origin. Therefore, plastid proteins and plastid-localised metabolic pathways evolved by tinkering and using gene toolkits from different sources. This mixed heritage seems especially complex in secondary algae containing green plastids, the acquisition of which appears to have been facilitated by many previous acquisitions of red algal genes (the 'red carpet hypothesis').
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