Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication, and neofunctionalization.
A major goal of evolutionary biology is to identify the genetic basis for the emergence of complex adaptive traits. Diatoms are ancestrally photosynthetic microalgae. However, in the genus Nitzschia, loss of photosynthesis led to a group of free-living secondary heterotrophs whose manner of acquirin...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2025-04-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003038 |
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