The New Red Algal Subphylum Proteorhodophytina Comprises the Largest and Most Divergent Plastid Genomes Known

Red algal plastid genomes are often considered ancestral and evolutionarily stable, and thus more closely resembling the last common ancestral plastid genome of all photosynthetic eukaryotes [1Lang B.F. Nedelcu A.M. Plastid genomes of algae.in: Bock R. Knoop V. Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration. Springer, 2012: 59-87Crossref Google Scholar, 2Janouškovec J. Liu S.-L. Martone P.T. Carré W. Leblanc...