A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes

A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes

A widespread coral-infecting apicomplexan with chlorophyll biosynthesis genes, Published online: 03 April 2019; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1072-z

A newly identified lineage of apicomplexans, named corallicolids, are intracellular symbionts of many coral species, and possesses a plastid that retains genes for chlorophyll biosynthesis despite lacking photosystem genes.

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