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Chromalveolata Life   Chromalveolata

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Groups Algae Groups Protista

Kinds

Alveolata Cryptophyta Haptophyta, Prymnesiophyte algae Stramenopila, Stramenopiles

Overview A contested group, said to have arisen from a common ancestor with chloroplasts derived from a red alga and supported by molecular evidence. Major chromalveolate groups include the alveolates and stramenopiles.

Phylogeny

• Tree of Life

• Phylogenomic Analysis Identifies Red Algal Genes of Endosymbiotic Origin in the Chromalveolates, Roy J. Carver, University of Iowa
• The tiny enslaved genome of a rhizarian alga, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, University of Oxford
• Photosynthetic eukaryotes unite: endosymbiosis connects the dots, Debashish Bhattacharya, Hwan Su Yoon, and Jeremiah D. Hackett, University of Iowa
• The Proterozoic Fossil Record of Heterotrophic Eukaryotes, Susannah M. Porter, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Genomic studies of the evolution of haptophytes and dinoflagellates with emphasis on the chromalveolate hypothesis, Sanchez Puerta, Maria Virginia, University of Maryland
• The tree of eukaryotes, Patrick J. Keeling, Gertraud Burger, Dion G. Durnford, B. Franz Lang, Robert W. Lee, Ronald E. Pearlman, Andrew J. Roger, and Michael W. Gray, University of Arizona

• Ashley MacDonald, University of Georgia, Athens
• Amberlie McKee, University of Georgia, Athens

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