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Host origin of plastid solute transporters in the first photosynthetic eukaryotes

Heather M Tyra1, Marc Linka2, Andreas PM Weber3,2* and Debashish Bhattacharya1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biological Sciences and Roy J Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, 446 Biology Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1324, USA

2 Department of Plant Biology, S-336 Plant Biology Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1312, USA

3 Current address: Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University, Gebäude 26.03.01, Universitätsstrasse 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R212 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r212

Published: 5 October 2007

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Additional data file 1:

PHYML bootstrap trees of plastid targeted solute transporters of putative 'Host', 'Cyanobacterial', 'Chlamydia-like', 'Other', and 'Plantae-specific' origin found in our study.

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