Chris Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms has an absolutely stunning review of the origin of chloroplasts in eukaryotes. It's so good I thought it was from Elio Schaechter's blog Small Things Considered when it first popped up in my reader - higher praise there is not.
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Nice. Good to see how the secondary acquisitions are being sorted out.
If you think that Christopher Taylor is blushing, Merry and I are aglow!
Elio (Small Things Considered)
I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
Do go to Small Things Considered and play the Swine flu protein translated to music.
I remember learning that chlorophyll had a heme structure like that of hemoglobin, but with a Magnesium ion in the center instead of an iron atom.