The Cryptic Plastid of <italic toggle="yes">Euglena longa</italic> Defines a New Type of Nonphotosynthetic Plastid Organelle
ABSTRACT Most secondary nonphotosynthetic eukaryotes have retained residual plastids whose physiological role is often still unknown. One such example is Euglena longa, a close nonphotosynthetic relative of Euglena gracilis harboring a plastid organelle of enigmatic function. By mining transcriptome...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2020-10-01
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| Series: | mSphere |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00675-20 |