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Chlamydial genes shed light on the evolution of photoautotrophic eukaryotes

BACKGROUND: Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria of protists, invertebrates and vertebrates, but have not been found to date in photosynthetic eukaryotes (algae and embryophytes). Genes of putative chlamydial origin, however, are present in significant numbers in sequenced genomes of photo...

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Main Authors: Becker, Burkhard, Hoef-Emden, Kerstin, Melkonian, Michael
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2490706/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18627593
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-203
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