Did an ancient chlamydial endosymbiosis facilitate the establishment of primary plastids?

Jinling Huang¹^,2^,3 and Johann Peter Gogarten³

¹Department of Biology, Howell Science Complex, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA

²NASA Astrobiology Institute at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

³Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, 91 North Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3125, USA

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R99doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-6-r99


Published:	4 June 2007

Subject areas: Evolution, Genome studies, Microbiology and parasitology, Bioinformatics

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