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Word of the day:
"Kleptoplasty, the process by which a host organism sequesters and retains algal chloroplasts, is relatively common in protists"
#chloroplast
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001857
An interesting question from the POV of the coevolution of symbiont genomes:
"One of the unsolved mysteries of kleptoplasty, particularly in animal cells, is how the host is able to maintain algal chloroplasts in a photosynthetically competent state for long periods, after stripping them of their nuclear entourage."
#Evolution #Symbiosis #Genomics
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001857