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Comment
. 2003 Jun 24;100(13):7419-20.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1533212100. Epub 2003 Jun 16.

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal evolution

Jason Raymond  1 , Robert E Blankenship
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Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal evolution

Jason Raymond et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Stepwise conceptual image of one mechanism of HGT that, as proposed by Archibald et al. (5), might operate in the chlorarachniophyte alga B. natans. Red arrows show phagocytosis and subsequent digestion of a bacterium or protist, from which foreign DNA has survived digestion and become incorporated into the algal nucleus (flow of HGT-acquired genetic information indicated with blue arrows). Although the genes studied herein by Archibald et al. are directed for function to the plastid, the significant number of horizontally transferred genes they found may only be the tip of the iceberg in phagocytic protists such as B. natans.
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