Assertion: cryptomonad's plastid | /r/HasProperty | cryptomonad
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text: in some algae having plastids of secondary origin (cryptomonads and chlorarachinophytes) a plastid based, double membrane enclosed structure containing DNA arranged in small chromosomes and other features suggesting origin from a eukaryotic nucleus
text: The most detailed phylogenies to date demonstrate the existence of a number of well‐supported cryptomonad lineages and suggest that a clade consisting of freshwater species with two plastids per cell (Cryptomonas and Chilomonas ) is the earliest diverging lineage among plastid‐containing cryptomonads (Marin et al. 1998, Clay and Kugrens 1999).