Ancient recruitment by chromists of green algal genes encoding enzymes for carotenoid biosynthesis

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2653-2667

  Frommolt, Ruth ^a   Werner, Sonja ^b   Paulsen, Harald ^b   Goss, Reimund ^a   Wilhelm, Christian ^a   Zauner, Stefan ^c   Maier, Uwe G ^c   Grossman, Arthur R ^d   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^e   Lohr, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoid biosynthesis; Chromalveolates; Gene transfer; Plastid; Secondary endosymbiosis; Xanthophyll cycle

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; XANTHOPHYLL;

ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE TRANSFER; GREEN ALGA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ALGAE; ALGAE, GREEN; CAROTENOIDS; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS;

ALGAE; ALVEOLATA; CHROMALVEOLATA; CHROMISTA; CRYPTOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PRASINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA; RHODOPHYTA; STRAMENOPILES;

EID: 56449118832     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn206     Document Type: Article

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