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- Title
Chlorophyll b and phycobilins in the common ancestor of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.
- Authors
Tomitani, Akiko; Okada, Kiyotaka; Miyashita, Hideaki; Matthijs, Hans C.P.; Ohno, Terufumi; Tanaka, Ayumi
- Abstract
Presents research in which the chlorophyll b synthesis genes from two prochlorophytes and from major groups of chlorophytes are isolated. Evidence of a common evolutionary origin through phylogenetic analysis; Indications that the progenitors of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, including the ancestor of chloroplasts, has both chlorophyll b and phycobilins; Details of the research.
- Subjects
CHLOROPHYLL analysis; BIOLOGICAL evolution; PHYCOBILINS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC bacteria; CHLOROPLASTS
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 400, Issue 6740, p159
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/22101