Investigators at Dalhousie University, Genome Atlantic and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research target gene therapy

Fresh data on gene therapy are presented in the report 'Plastid genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina CCMP1319: lateral transfer of putative DNA replication machinery and a test of chromist plastid phylogeny.' "Cryptophytes are a group of unicellular algae with chlorophyll c-containing plastids derived from the uptake of a secondary (i.e., eukaryotic) endosymbiont. Biochemical and molecular data indicate that cryptophyte plastids are derived from red algae, yet the question of whether or not cryptophytes acquired their red algal plastids independent of those in heterokont, haptophyte, and dinoflagellate algae is of long-standing debate," investigators in Halifax, Canada...

Want to see the full article?

• Purchase this article for only $3.00