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Review
. 2010 Oct;154(2):434-8.
doi: 10.1104/pp.110.161687.

Early evolution of photosynthesis

Robert E Blankenship  1
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Review

Early evolution of photosynthesis

Robert E Blankenship. Plant Physiol. 2010 Oct.
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Small subunit rRNA evolutionary tree of life. Taxa that contain photosynthetic representatives are highlighted in color, with green highlighting indicating a type I RC, while purple highlighting indicates a type II RC. The red arrow indicates the endosymbiotic event that formed eukaryotic chloroplasts. Tree adapted from Pace (1997).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Electron transport diagram indicating the types or RCs and electron transport pathways found in different groups of photosynthetic organisms. The color coding is the same as for Figure 1 and highlights the electron acceptor portion of the RC. Figure courtesy of Martin Hohmann-Marriott.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Schematic evolutionary tree showing the development of the different types of RC complexes in different types of photosynthetic organisms. This tree is based on structural comparisons of RCs by Sadekar et al. (2006). Blue color coding indicates protein homodimer, while red indicates protein heterodimer complexes. Red stars indicate gene duplication events that led to heterodimeric RCs. Helio, Heliobacteria; GSB, green sulfur bacteria; FAP, filamentous anoxygenic phototroph.
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