RRC ID 33931
著者 Kamikawa R, Tanifuji G, Kawachi M, Miyashita H, Hashimoto T, Inagaki Y.
タイトル Plastid genome-based phylogeny pinpointed the origin of the green-colored plastid in the dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum.
ジャーナル Genome Biol Evol
Abstract Unlike many other photosynthetic dinoflagellates, whose plastids contain a characteristic carotenoid peridinin, members of the genus Lepidodinium are the only known dinoflagellate species possessing green alga-derived plastids. However, the precise origin of Lepidodinium plastids has hitherto remained uncertain. In this study, we completely sequenced the plastid genome of Lepidodinium chlorophorum NIES-1868. Our phylogenetic analyses of 52 plastid-encoded proteins unite L. chlorophorum exclusively with a pedinophyte, Pedinomonas minor, indicating that the green-colored plastids in Lepidodinium spp. were derived from an endosymbiotic pedinophyte or a green alga closely related to pedinophytes. Our genome comparison incorporating the origin of the Lepidodinium plastids strongly suggests that the endosymbiont plastid genome acquired by the ancestral Lepidodinium species has lost genes encoding proteins involved in metabolism and biosynthesis, protein/metabolite transport, and plastid division during the endosymbiosis. We further discuss the commonalities and idiosyncrasies in genome evolution between the L. chlorophorum plastid and other plastids acquired through endosymbiosis of eukaryotic photoautotrophs.
巻・号 7(4)
ページ 1133-40
公開日 2015-4-2
DOI 10.1093/gbe/evv060
PII evv060
PMID 25840416
PMC PMC4419806
MeSH Dinoflagellida / classification Dinoflagellida / genetics* Evolution, Molecular* Genome, Plastid* Molecular Sequence Data Phylogeny* Plastids / genetics
IF 3.462
引用数 20
WOS 分野 GENETICS & HEREDITY EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
リソース情報
藻類 NIES-1868