Reverse evolution: Driving forces behind the loss of acquired photosynthetic traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  de Castro, Francisco ^a   Gaedke, Ursula ^a   Boenigk, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTERIVORY; CARBON SOURCE; CELL SIZE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FLAGELLATE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIXOTROPH; MUTANT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUKARYOTA; HETEROTROPHIC PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

ALGAE; ARCHAEPLASTIDA; CHROMALVEOLATA; EUKARYOTA; EXCAVATA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA; RHIZARIA;

EID: 77954052811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008465     Document Type: Article

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