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1: Genome Biol. 2003;4(3):209. Epub 2003 Mar 3.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Genomics and chloroplast evolution: what did cyanobacteria do for plants?

Raven JA, Allen JF.

Division of Environmental and Applied Biology, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK. j.a.raven@dundee.ac.uk

The complete genome sequences of cyanobacteria and of the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana leave no doubt that the plant chloroplast originated, through endosymbiosis, from a cyanobacterium. But the genomic legacy of cyanobacterial ancestry extends far beyond the chloroplast itself, and persists in organisms that have lost chloroplasts completely.

PMID: 12620099 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC153454