Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?

Genome Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Huang, Jinling ^a,b,c   Gogarten, Johann Peter ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CHLAMYDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLA; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; HETEROTROPH; HOST CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOAUTOTROPH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROTPCHLAMYDIA; RED ALGA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL GENE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; CYANIDIOSCHYZON MEROLAE; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; RHODOPHYTA;

ALGAE, RED; CHLAMYDIA; CYANOBACTERIA; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 39549122214     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r99     Document Type: Article

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