This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
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Tertiary endosymbiosis |
An event in which a eukaryotic cell enslaves another eukaryotic cell that possesses a plastid derived from a secondary endosymbiosis (see secondary endosymbiosis). This has occurred several times in the dinoflagellates, and the captured plastid is thought to have replaced a pre-existing Secondary plastid (see also endosymbiosis). |