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Table 1 Retention time of transient plastids in dinoflagellates under laboratory conditions

From: Plastid evolution: gene transfer and the maintenance of 'stolen' organelles

Dinoflagellate host

Source of transient plastids

Retention time

Reference

Dinophysis caudata

Teleaulax sp.

(cryptophyte)1

Around 2 months

[8]

Dinophysis fortii

Teleaulax amphioxeia

(cryptophyte)1

At least 40 days

[11]

Gymnodinium acidotum

Chroomonas sp. (cryptophyte)

At least 10 days

[5]

Gymnodinium 'gracilentum'

Rhodomonas salina (cryptophyte)

1-2 days

[9]

Pfiesteria piscicida

Rhodomonas sp. (cryptophyte)

At least 9 days2

[13]

Unnamed dinoflagellate

Phaeocystis antarctica (haptophyte)

5-8 months

[14]

  1. 1D. caudata and D. fortii cannot sequester plastids directly from the cryptophyte cells, and instead obtain them from the ciliate Myrionecta rubra that consumes cryptophytes.
  2. 2Retention time varies depending on light intensity.