Genome Biology

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Paper report

Evolutionary origins of photosynthetic organisms

Devaki Bhaya

  • Correspondence: Devaki Bhaya

Genome Biology 2000, 1:reports0055 doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-2-reports0055

Published: 19 July 2000

Abstract

New phylogenetic analyses have suggested that a single primary endosymbiosis occurred at the origin of green plants, red algae and glaucophytes.