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Giving up on photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows some marine diatoms to live on a seaweed diet

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Researchers sequenced genome of Nitzschia sing1 diatom species to find out how they got their carbon source.

Genome sequence showed that the diatom carries a gene for an enzyme that breaks down alginate, a carbon polymer in the cell walls of kelp and other common seaweeds.

The gene originally came from a marine bacterium, and an ancestor took up the gene and incorporated it into its genome.

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