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Diatom genomics: genetic acquisitions and mergers
R Ellen R Nisbet1, Oliver Kilian, Geoffrey I McFadden
1Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Current Biology : CB
|December 29, 2004
Abstract:
Diatom algae arose by two-step endosymbiosis. The complete genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana has now been sequenced, allowing us to reconstruct the remarkable intracellular gene transfers that occurred during this convoluted cellular evolution.