Towards understanding the evolution and functional diversification of DNA-containing plant organelles [version 1; referees: 3 approved]
Plastids and mitochondria derive from prokaryotic symbionts that lost most of their genes after the establishment of endosymbiosis. In consequence, relatively few of the thousands of different proteins in these organelles are actually encoded there. Most are now specified by nuclear genes. The most...
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F1000 Research Ltd
2016-03-01
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| Online Access: | http://f1000research.com/articles/5-330/v1 |