Endosymbiosis

Part I. The Heterotrophic Eukaryotes

1. Mitochondria and the Origin of Eukaryotes
B. Franz Lang

2. Modifications and Innovations in the Evolution of Mitochondrial Protein Import Pathways
Victoria Hewitt, Trevor Lithgow, Ross F. Waller

Part II. Autotrophy as the Driving Force for Endosymbiosis: Primary Endosymbiosis

3. The Single Primary Endosymbiotic Event
Wolfgang Löffelhardt

4. Insertion of Metabolite Transporters into the Endosymbiont Membrane(s) as a Prerequisite for Primary Endosymbiosis
Fabio Facchinelli, Andreas P. M. Weber

5. Evolution of the Protein Translocons of the Chloroplast Envelope
Maik S. Sommer, Enrico Schleiff

6. Evolution of Storage Polysaccharide Metabolism in Archaeplastida Opens an Unexpected Window on the Molecular Mechanisms That Drove Plastid Endosymbiosis
S. G. Ball

7. Analysis of the Genome of Cyanophora paradoxa: An Algal Model for Understanding Primary Endosymbiosis
Debashish Bhattacharya, Dana C. Price, Cheong Xin Chan, Jeferson Gross, Jürgen M. Steiner, Wolfgang Löffelhardt

Part III. Recent “Primary” Endosymbioses

8. Photosynthetic Paulinella: Recapitulation of Primary Plastid Establishment
Hwan Su Yoon, Eun Chan Yang, Huan Qiu, Debashish Bhattacharya

9.
Rhopalodia gibba: The First Steps in the Birth of a Novel Organelle?
Susann Adler, Eike M. Trapp, Christine Dede, Uwe G. Maier, Stefan Zauner

Part IV. Autotrophy as the Driving Force for Endosymbiosis: Secondary and Tertiary Endosymbioses

10.
Chromera et al.: Novel Photosynthetic Alveolates and Apicomplexan Relatives
Marjorie Linares, Dee Carter, Sven B. Gould

11. Nucleomorph Comparative Genomics
Goro Tanifuji, John M. Archibald

12. Protein Import into Complex Plastids: Current Findings and Perspectives
Christopher Grosche, Franziska Hempel, Kathrin Bolte, Lars Abram, Uwe G. Maier, Stefan Zauner

13. Tertiary Plastid Endosymbioses in Dinoflagellates
Przemysław Gagat, Andrzej Bodył, Paweł Mackiewicz, John W. Stiller

14. Endosymbioses in Sacoglossan Seaslugs: Plastid-Bearing Animals that Keep Photosynthetic Organelles Without Borrowing Genes
Heike Wägele, William F. Martin

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