2023-11-20

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Journey to the Microcosmos

If, for some reason, you ever find yourself reading a bunch of papers about cryptomonads, you might come across this strange fact: they have four genomes. That sounds like a lot of genomes. But what does that even mean? And what does the cryptomonas do with all those genomes?

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http://e-algae.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.4490/algae.2013.28.4.307 ↩︎

https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx123

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origin-of-plastids-14125758/

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1434461004701480

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-eukaryotes-found-without-normal-cellular-power-supply

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evq082/573270?login=false

https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/botany/chapter/cryptophytes/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265520014_Cryptomonad_taxonomy_in_the_21st_century_The_first_200_years

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Algal_Culturing_Techniques/-qWHAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

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