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Eukaryotic Cell doi:10.1128/EC.00396-07
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Evolutionary dynamics of light-independent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (LIPOR) genes in the secondary plastids of cryptophyte algae

Anna Fong and John M. Archibald*

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: john.archibald{at}dal.ca.


  Abstract

Plastid genes encoding light-independent protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (LIPOR) subunits were isolated from cryptophyte algae, the first example of such genes in plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. The presence of functional and non-functional copies of LIPOR genes in cryptophytes suggests that light-independent chlorophyll biosynthesis is a non-essential pathway in these organisms.




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