Mikrobielle Symbiosen und die Evolution neuer Organellen

Mitochondria and plastids evolved more than one billion years ago from bacterial endosymbionts. Besides these organelles, there is a large diversity of more recently acquired bacterial endosymbionts that provide their hosts with diverse metabolic functions. We use the protists Paulinella chromatophora and Angomonas deanei as model systems to study the molecular mechanisms underpinning endosymbiotic interactions and the transformation of a...