Abstract:Algae are organisms that have plastids, or organisms that are derived from cells whose ancestors possessed plastids. Until 1994, it was thought that the apicomplexa did not have plastids (and conseque...Algae are organisms that have plastids, or organisms that are derived from cells whose ancestors possessed plastids. Until 1994, it was thought that the apicomplexa did not have plastids (and consequently were not covered in phycology textbooks). Then it was shown that a known organelle in many apicomplexa was actually a reduced colorless plastid called an apicoplast (Fig. 8.1) (Wilson, 1993; Wilson et al., 1994). Molecular studies have shown that the apicoplast and dinoflagellate plastids originated from red algae by a single endosymbiotic event that occurred relatively early in eukaryotic evolution (Fast et al., 2001).Read More
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-03-27
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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