Plastids in plants and algae evolved from the endosymbiotic integration of a cyanobacterium
by a heterotrophic eukaryote. New plastids can only emerge through fission; thus, the …

The trypanosomatid Angomonas deanei is a model to study endosymbiosis. Each cell
contains a single β-proteobacterial endosymbiont that divides at a defined point in the host …

Plastids in plants are assumed to have evolved from cyanobacteria as they have maintained
several bacterial features. Recently, peptidoglycans, as bacterial cell wall components, have …

The chloroplast division machinery is a mixture of a stromal FtsZ-based complex descended
from a cyanobacterial ancestor of chloroplasts and a cytosolic dynamin-related protein …

Bacterial division initiates at the site of a contractile Z-ring composed of polymerized FtsZ.
The location of the Z-ring in the cell is controlled by a system of three mutually antagonistic …

Glaucophyta are members of the Archaeplastida, the founding group of photosynthetic
eukaryotes that also includes red algae (Rhodophyta), green algae, and plants …

Chloroplasts evolved from a cyanobacterial endosymbiont. It is believed that the
synchronization of endosymbiotic and host cell division, as is commonly seen in existing …

Heterocyst‐forming cyanobacteria are organized as multicellular filaments of tightly
interacting, functionally specialized cells. N2‐fixing heterocysts differentiate from vegetative …

The Glaucophyta is one of the three major lineages of photosynthetic eukaryotes, together
with viridiplants and red algae, united in the presumed monophyletic supergroup …

The pathogenic bacterium Brucella abortus invades and multiplies inside host cells. To grow
inside host cells, B. abortus requires a functional histidine biosynthesis pathway. Here, we …