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1Institute of Biology II, Freiburg, FRG.
Abstract:
Cryptomonads are a group of unicellular eukaryotic algae with unusual features. First, their plastids are surrounded by four membranes and second, between the two pairs of membranes there is a plasmatic compartment. This supernumerary eukaryotic compartment of the cryptomonad cell is devoid of mitochondria but contains starch grains, 80S ribosomes and a small vestigial eukaryotic nucleus called the nucleomorph. Isolation and characterization of the four genomes (from mitochondrion, plastid, nucleus and nucleomorph) of one cryptomonad, Pyrenomonas salina, demonstrates that the cryptomonads have originated from an unicellular organism related to green algae which endosymbiotically took up a eukaryotic protist related to the red algae.
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