Re-evaluating the green versus red signal in eukaryotes with secondary plastid of red algal origin
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Burki, FabienFlegontov, Pavel
Oborník, Miroslav
Cihlář, Jaromír
Pain, Arnab

Lukeš, Julius
Keeling, Patrick J.
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionBioscience Program
Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)
Pathogen Genomics Laboratory
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2012-05-16Online Publication Date
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The transition from endosymbiont to organelle in eukaryotic cells involves the transfer of significant numbers of genes to the host genomes, a process known as endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT). In the case of plastid organelles, EGTs have been shown to leave a footprint in the nuclear genome that can be indicative of ancient photosynthetic activity in present-day plastid-lacking organisms, or even hint at the existence of cryptic plastids. Here,we evaluated the impact of EGTon eukaryote genomes by reanalyzing the recently published EST dataset for Chromera velia, an interesting test case of a photosynthetic alga closely related to apicomplexan parasites. Previously, 513 genes were reported to originate from red and green algae in a 1:1 ratio. In contrast, by manually inspecting newly generated trees indicating putative algal ancestry, we recovered only 51 genes congruent with EGT, of which 23 and 9 were of red and green algal origin, respectively,whereas 19 were ambiguous regarding the algal provenance.Our approach also uncovered 109 genes that branched within a monocot angiosperm clade, most likely representing a contamination. We emphasize the lack of congruence and the subjectivity resulting from independent phylogenomic screens for EGT, which appear to call for extreme caution when drawing conclusions for major evolutionary events. 2012 The Author(s).Citation
Burki F, Flegontov P, Obornik M, Cihlar J, Pain A, et al. (2012) Re-evaluating the Green versus Red Signal in Eukaryotes with Secondary Plastid of Red Algal Origin. Genome Biology and Evolution 4: evs049-evs049. doi:10.1093/gbe/evs049.Publisher
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Genome Biology and EvolutionPubMed ID
22593553PubMed Central ID
PMC3516247ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/gbe/evs049
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