| Literature DB >> 19174147 |
Abstract
A comprehensive understanding of the origin and spread of plastids remains an important yet elusive goal in the field of eukaryotic evolution. Combined with the discovery of new photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic protist lineages, the results of recent taxonomically broad phylogenomic studies suggest that a re-shuffling of higher-level eukaryote systematics is in order. Consequently, new models of plastid evolution involving ancient secondary and tertiary endosymbioses are needed to explain the full spectrum of photosynthetic eukaryotes.Mesh：
Year: 2009 PMID： 19174147 DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.067
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Biol ISSN： 0960-9822 Impact factor: 10.834