Assertion: living dinoflagellate | /r/HasProperty | dependent on plastid
Facets:
value: metabolically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Three distantly related, fundamentally nonphotosynthetic dinoflagellates, Noctiluca, Oxyrrhis, and Dinophysis, contain cryptic plastidial metabolisms and lack alternative cytosolic pathways, suggesting that all free-living dinoflagellates are metabolically dependent on plastids.
text: This suggests that all free-living dinoflagellates are metabolically dependent on plastids that have taken over important cellular functions, apparently early in the evolution of the group; plastidial tetrapyrrole biosynthesis may also explain the existence of bioluminescent luciferin in nonpigmented dinoflagellates.