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- Title
Genome erosion in a nitrogen-fixing vertically transmitted endosymbiotic multicellular cyanobacterium.
- Authors
Ran, Liang; Larsson, John; Vigil-Stenman, Theoden; Nylander, Johan A A; Ininbergs, Karolina; Zheng, Wei-Wen; Lapidus, Alla; Lowry, Stephen; Haselkorn, Robert; Bergman, Birgitta
- Abstract
An ancient cyanobacterial incorporation into a eukaryotic organism led to the evolution of plastids (chloroplasts) and subsequently to the origin of the plant kingdom. The underlying mechanism and the identities of the partners in this monophyletic event remain elusive.
- Publication
PloS one, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 7, pe11486
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0011486