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MinireviewMergers and acquisitions: malaria and the great chloroplast heistGeoffrey I McFadden  Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 3052 Melbourne, Australia  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2000,
1:reviews1026.1-1026.4doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-4-reviews1026
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13 October 2000 |
Subject areas: Evolution, Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies, Medicine, Plant biology Abstract
The origin of the relict chloroplast recently identified in malarial parasites has been mysterious. Several new papers suggest that the parasites obtained their chloroplasts in an ancient endosymbiotic event that also created some major algal groups. | 
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