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SUBMITTER: Imanian B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3942023 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genome biology and evolution 20140201 2
A tertiary endosymbiosis between a dinoflagellate host and diatom endosymbiont gave rise to "dinotoms," cells with a unique nuclear and mitochondrial redundancy derived from two evolutionarily distinct eukaryotic lineages. To examine how this unique redundancy might have affected the evolution of metabolic systems, we investigated the transcription of genes involved in biosynthesis of the amino acid tryptophan in three species, Durinskia baltica, Kryptoperidinium foliaceum, and Glenodinium folia ...[more]