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John M. Archibald*
Patrick J. Keeling
Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research,
Dept Botany, University
of British Columbia,
3529-6270 University Blvd,
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada V6T 1Z4.
*e-mail: jarch@
interchange.ubc.ca
It is now well established that plastids, the light-
harvesting organelles of photosynthetic eukaryotes,
are the product of an ancient symbiosis between a
eukaryote and a cyanobacterium. Together with the

Source: Archibald, John - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Keeling, Patrick - Department of Botany, University of British Columbia

Collections: Biology and Medicine; Environmental Sciences and Ecology