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A Modern Descendant of Early Green Algal Phagotrophs

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, May 2013
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Title
A Modern Descendant of Early Green Algal Phagotrophs
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Current Biology, May 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.063
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Shinichiro Maruyama, Eunsoo Kim

Abstract

Green algae, land plants, and other photosynthetic eukaryotes possess plastids, such as chloroplasts, which have evolved from cyanobacterial ancestors via endosymbiosis. An early evolutionary merger between heterotrophic eukaryotes and cyanobacteria called primary endosymbiosis gave rise to the first photosynthetic eukaryotes. A series of plastid acquisitions involving engulfment of eukaryotic phototrophs, known as secondary or tertiary endosymbiosis, followed. Through these repeated symbiotic events, photosynthesis spread across a number of eukaryotic lineages. While the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis was undoubtedly a fundamentally important evolutionary event in Earth's history, without which much of the modern marine phytoplankton would not exist, the cellular processes that shaped this initial plastid genesis remain largely unknown. Here, we report ultrastructural evidence for bacterial phagocytosis in a primary plastid-bearing alga. This mixotrophic green alga utilizes a mouth-like opening, a tubular channel, and a large permanent vacuole to engulf, transport, and digest bacterial cells. This mode of phagocytosis, likely inherited from its plastid-lacking ancestor, differs from those displayed by many other eukaryotes, including animals, amoebas, and ciliates. These results provide insight into the key phagocytosis step during the origin of the first photosynthetic eukaryotes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 2 2%
France 2 2%
United States 2 2%
Brazil 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Unknown 118 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 31 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Student > Master 17 13%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Professor 9 7%
Other 13 10%
Unknown 19 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 61 47%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 12%
Environmental Science 14 11%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 3%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 23 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2023.
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#784,492
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Current Biology
#2,554
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Outputs of similar age
#5,808
of 208,166 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Current Biology
#24
of 172 outputs
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