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    The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses

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    Stiller, John W.; Schreiber, John; Yue, Jipei; Hui, Guo; Ding, Qin; Huang, Jinling
    Abstract
    Chromist algae include diverse photosynthetic organisms of great ecological and social importance. Despite vigorous research efforts, a clear understanding of how various chromists acquired photosynthetic organelles has been complicated by conflicting phylogenetic results, along with an undetermined number and pattern of endosymbioses, and the horizontal movement of genes that accompany them. We apply novel statistical approaches to assess impacts of endosymbiotic gene transfer on three principal chromist groups at the heart of long-standing controversies. Our results provide robust support for acquisitions of photosynthesis through serial endosymbioses, beginning with the adoption of a red alga by cryptophytes, then a cryptophyte by the ancestor of ochrophytes, and finally an ochrophyte by the ancestor of haptophytes. Resolution of how chromist algae are related through endosymbioses provides a framework for unravelling the further reticulate history of red algal-derived plastids, and for clarifying evolutionary processes that gave rise to eukaryotic photosynthetic diversity.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4739
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     Biological sciences; Evolution 
    Date
    2014-12-10
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    Stiller, John W., & Schreiber, John, & Yue, Jipei, & Hui, Guo, & Ding, Qin, & Huang, Jinling. (December 2014). The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses. Nature Communications, (5764. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4739

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    Stiller, John W., and Schreiber, John, and Yue, Jipei, and Hui, Guo, and Ding, Qin, and Huang, Jinling. "The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses". Nature Communications. . (5764.), December 2014. August 17, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4739.
    Chicago:
    Stiller, John W. and Schreiber, John and Yue, Jipei and Hui, Guo and Ding, Qin and Huang, Jinling, "The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses," Nature Communications 5, no. (December 2014), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4739 (accessed August 17, 2022).
    AMA:
    Stiller, John W., Schreiber, John, Yue, Jipei, Hui, Guo, Ding, Qin, Huang, Jinling. The evolution of photosynthesis in chromist algae through serial endosymbioses. Nature Communications. December 2014; 5() 5764. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4739. Accessed August 17, 2022.
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