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1: Genome Biol. 2000;1(4):REVIEWS1026. Epub 2000 Oct 13. Links

Mergers and acquisitions: malaria and the great chloroplast heist.

McFadden GI.

Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, 3052 Melbourne, Australia. g.mcfadden@botany.unimelb.edu.au

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.

PMID: 11178253 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC138874

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