McFadden G I
Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 3052 Melbourne, Australia.
Genome Biol. 2000;1(4):REVIEWS1026. doi: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-4-reviews1026. Epub 2000 Oct 13.
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.
最近在疟原虫中发现的残留叶绿体的起源一直是个谜。几篇新论文表明,这些寄生虫在一次古老的内共生事件中获得了它们的叶绿体,这次事件还产生了一些主要的藻类群体。