Genomic reduction and evolution of novel genetic membranes and protein-targeting machinery in eukaryote-eukaryote chimaeras (meta-algae)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1429, 2003, Pages 109-134

  Cavalier Smith, T ^a   Van Der Giezen, M ^b   Martin, W ^c   Wilkins, A ^d   Doolittle, W F ^e   Allen, J F ^f   Leaver, C J ^a   Whatley, F R ^a   Howe, C J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BioEssays   (United Kingdom)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorarachneans; Chloroplast evolution; Chromalveolates; Euglenoids; Evolution of genome size; Nucleomorph

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENOME;

ALGAE; ALVEOLATA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CABOZOA; CERCOZOA; CHIMAERA; CHIMAERIFORMES; CHLOROPHYTA; CHROMISTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENIDA; EUKARYOTA; GLAUCOCYSTOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PROTOZOA; RHODOPHYTA; SPOROZOA; STRAMENOPILES; TOXOPLASMA; VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 0037471677     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1194     Document Type: Conference Paper

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