Reductive evolution of chloroplasts in non-photosynthetic plants, algae and protists

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-017-0761-0" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-017-0761-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00294-017-0761-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00294-017-0761-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reductive evolution of chloroplasts in non-photosynthetic plants, algae and protists

Original language description

Chloroplasts are generally known as eukaryotic organelles whose main function is photosynthesis. They perform other functions, however, such as synthesizing isoprenoids, fatty acids, heme, iron sulphur clusters and other essential compounds. In non-photosynthetic lineages that possess plastids, the chloroplast genomes have been reduced and most (or all) photosynthetic genes have been lost. Consequently, non-photosynthetic plastids have also been reduced structurally. Some of these non-photosynthetic or &quot;cryptic&quot; plastids were overlooked or unrecognized for decades. The number of complete plastid genome sequences and/or transcriptomes from non-photosynthetic taxa possessing plastids is rapidly increasing, thus allowing prediction of the functions of non-photosynthetic plastids in various eukaryotic lineages. In some non-photosynthetic eukaryotes with photosynthetic ancestors, no traces of plastid genomes or of plastids have been found, suggesting that they have lost the genomes or plastids completely. This review summarizes current knowledge of non-photosynthetic plastids, their genomes, structures and potential functions in free-living and parasitic plants, algae and protists. We introduce a model for the order of plastid gene losses which combines models proposed earlier for land plants with the patterns of gene retention and loss observed in protists. The rare cases of plastid genome loss and complete plastid loss are also discussed.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10606 - Microbiology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Current Genetics

ISSN

0172-8083

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

365-387

UT code for WoS article

000427363900008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031421162