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Evolution: The plasticity of plastids (2023)
Journal Article

Many chloroplast-bearing plants and algae lost their photosynthetic activity during evolution but retained their chloroplasts for other functions. A group of dinoflagellate algae apparently lost one half of their photosynthetic machinery but retained... Read More about Evolution: The plasticity of plastids.

Evolution: The great photosynthesis heist (2023)
Journal Article
Howe, C. J., & Nisbet, R. E. R. (2023). Evolution: The great photosynthesis heist. Current Biology, 33(5), R185-R187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.030

Many eukaryotes acquired chloroplasts by endosymbiotic acquisition of photosynthetic bacteria or already-domesticated chloroplasts from other eukaryotes. However, the ciliate Mesodinium rubrum acquires the nucleus of a photosynthetic eukaryote, as we... Read More about Evolution: The great photosynthesis heist.

25 years of Protist: A thank you to Editor-in-Chief Michael Melkonian (2023)
Journal Article
Nisbet, R. E. R., & Howe, C. J. (2023). 25 years of Protist: A thank you to Editor-in-Chief Michael Melkonian. Protist, 174(2), Article 125947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2023.125947