Complex endosymbioses I: From primary to complex plastids, multiple independent events
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F18%3A43898101" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/18:43898101 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/18:00502997
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_2" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-1-4939-8654-5_2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Complex endosymbioses I: From primary to complex plastids, multiple independent events
Original language description
A substantial portion of eukaryote diversity consists of algae with complex plastids, i.e., plastids originating from eukaryote-to-eukaryote endosymbioses. These plastids are characteristic by a deviating number of envelope membranes (higher than two), and sometimes a remnant nucleus of the endosymbiont alga, termed the nucleomorph, is present. Complex plastid-bearing algae are therefore much like living matryoshka dolls, eukaryotes within eukaryotes. In comparison, primary plastids of Archaeplastida (plants, green algae, red algae, and glaucophytes) arose upon a single endosymbiosis event with a cyanobacterium and are surrounded by two membranes. Complex plastids were acquired several times by unrelated groups nested within eukaryotic heterotrophs, suggesting complex plastids are somewhat easier to obtain than primary plastids. This is consistent with the existence of higher-order and serial endosymbioses, i.e., engulfment of complex plastid-bearing algae by (tertiary) eukaryotic hosts and functional plastid replacements, respectively. Plastid endosymbiosis is typical by a massive transfer of genetic material from the endosymbiont to the host nucleus and metabolic rearrangements related to the trophic switch to phototrophy; this is necessary to establish metabolic integration of the plastid and control over its division. Although photosynthesis is the main advantage of plastid acquisition, algae that lost photosynthesis often maintain complex plastids, suggesting their roles beyond photosynthesis. This chapter summarizes basic knowledge on acquisition and functions of complex plastid.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-24027S" target="_blank" >GA16-24027S: Chromera velia as a model organism to study evolution of apicomplexans and chrompodellids</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
PLASTIDS: METHODS AND PROTOCOLS
ISBN
978-1-4939-8654-5
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
17-35
Number of pages of the book
409
Publisher name
Humana Press Inc.
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
—