• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.067
Corpus ID: 51989

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

@article{Archibald2009ThePO,
  title={The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution},
  author={J. Archibald},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2009},
  volume={19},
  pages={R81-R88}
}

• J. Archibald
• Published 2009
• Biology, Medicine
• Current Biology

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… Expand