• DOI:10.1093/molbev/msn285
Corpus ID: 8664165

The chloroplast genomes of the green algae Pyramimonas, Monomastix, and Pycnococcus shed new light on the evolutionary history of prasinophytes and the origin of the secondary chloroplasts of euglenids.

@article{Turmel2009TheCG,
  title={The chloroplast genomes of the green algae Pyramimonas, Monomastix, and Pycnococcus shed new light on the evolutionary history of prasinophytes and the origin of the secondary chloroplasts of euglenids.},
  author={M. Turmel and M. Gagnon and Charley J. O’Kelly and C. Otis and C. Lemieux},
  journal={Molecular biology and evolution},
  year={2009},
  volume={26 3},
  pages={
          631-48
        }
}

M. Turmel, M. Gagnon, +2 authors C. Lemieux

Published 2009

Biology, Medicine

Molecular biology and evolution

Because they represent the earliest divergences of the Chlorophyta and include the smallest known eukaryotes (e.g., the coccoid Ostreococcus), the morphologically diverse unicellular green algae making up the Prasinophyceae are central to our understanding of the evolutionary patterns that accompanied the radiation of chlorophytes and the reduction of cell size in some lineages. Seven prasinophyte lineages, four of which exhibit a coccoid cell organization (no flagella nor scales), were… CONTINUE READING

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