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Science 11 January 1985:
Vol. 227. no. 4683, pp. 192 - 194
DOI: 10.1126/science.227.4683.192
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Dinoflagellate with Blue-Green Chloroplasts Derived from an Endosymbiotic Eukaryote

LEE W. WILCOX 1 and GARY J. WEDEMAYER 1

1 Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

The dinoflagellate, Amphidinium wigrense, contains triple membrane-bound bodies we have termed "blue-green chloroplasts." We believe these chloroplasts were derived from a cryptomonad endosymbiont similar to that present in another blue-green dinoflagellate, Gymnodinium acidotum. These dinoflagellates provide evidence that a chloroplast has evolved from an endosymbiotic eukaryote.

Submitted on June 11, 1984
Accepted on September 13, 1984


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