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Book cover Origins of Algae and their Plastids

Part of the book series: Plant Systematics and Evolution ((SYSTEMATICS,volume 11))

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The algal lineage Glaucocystophyta is distinguished by its cyanelles (=plastids). Cyanelles were once thought to represent recent endosymbioses involving coccoid cyanobacteria since these organelles lack chlorophyll-b or -c, contain phycobilins, phycobilisomes, carboxysomes and concentric (unstacked) thylakoids and retain a bounding peptidoglycan wall. Phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear- and plastid-encoded small subunit ribosomal DNA of four members of the Glaucocystophyta provide evidence for a monophyletic origin of the glaucocystophyte host cell within the eukaryotic “crown group” radiation. The cyanelles of the glaucocystophytes are also of a monophyletic origin within this lineage, are “advanced” plastids, and form the earliest divergence within phylogenetic analyses including sequences from all other major plastid groups (excluding the dinoflagellates) and the cyanobacteria.

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    Debashish Bhattacharya

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Bhattacharya, D., Schmidt, H.A. (1997). Division Glaucocystophyta . In: Bhattacharya, D. (eds) Origins of Algae and their Plastids. Plant Systematics and Evolution, vol 11. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6542-3_7

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