Learn about all of the new findings about Paulinella and plastid endosymbiosis

D Bhattacharya, JV Etten, LF Benites, TG Stephens.
Endosymbiotic ratchet accelerates divergence after organelle origin: The Paulinella model for plastid evolution. BioEssays, 2200165. doi: 10.1002/bies.202200165

Gabr, TG Stephens, D Bhattacharya.
Loss of key endosymbiont genes may facilitate early host control of the chromatophore in Paulinella. Iscience 25 (9), 104974. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104974

Calatrava V, Stephens TG, Gabr A, Bhaya D, Bhattacharya D, Grossman AR. Retrotransposition Facilitated the Establishment of a Primary Plastid in the Thecate Amoeba Paulinella. Proc Acad Natl Sci USA. doi:
10.1073/pnas.2121241119.

Gabr A, Stephens TG, Bhattacharya D. Hypothesis: Trans-splicing Generates Evolutionary Novelty in the Photosynthetic Amoeba Paulinella. J Phycol. 2022 Mar 7. doi: 10.1111/jpy.13247. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35255163.

Gabr A, Zournas A, Stephens TG, Dismukes GC, Bhattacharya D. Evidence for a robust photosystem II in the photosynthetic amoeba Paulinella. New Phytol. 2022 May;234(3):934-945. doi: 10.1111/nph.18052. Epub 2022 Mar 8. PMID: 35211975.

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