Marine diatoms rose to prominence about 100 million years ago and today generate most of
the organic matter that serves as food for life in the sea. They exist in a dilute world where …

Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many
similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the …

Functional annotation of novel sequence data is a primary requirement for the utilization of
functional genomics approaches in plant research. In this paper, we describe the Blast2GO …

The ancestors of modern cyanobacteria invented O2-generating photosynthesis some 3.6
billion years ago. The conversion of water and CO2 into energy-rich sugars and O2 slowly …

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 …

Diatoms and other chromalveolates are among the dominant phytoplankters in the world's
oceans. Endosymbiosis was essential to the success of chromalveolates, and it appears that …

The establishment of the photosynthetic organelle (plastid) in eukaryotes and the
diversification of algae and plants were landmark evolutionary events because these taxa …

Plastids are descended from a cyanobacterial symbiosis which occurred over 1.2 billion
years ago. During the course of endosymbiosis, most genes were lost from the …

The endosymbiotic origin of plastids from cyanobacteria was a landmark event in the history
of eukaryotic life. Subsequent to the evolution of primary plastids, photosynthesis spread …

Plastids evolved from a cyanobacterium that was engulfed by a heterotrophic eukaryotic
host and became a stable organelle. Some of the resulting eukaryotic algae entered into a …