The evolutionary history of algal plastids acquired by secondary endosymbiosis remains uncertain and there is some evidence that non-photosynthetic stramenopile (e.g., oomycetes) and rhizarian (e.g., foraminifera) lineages may have once acquired a plastid that was subsequently lost (Tyler et al., 2006; Keeling, 2010; Glöckner et al., 2014).
Most welcomed the more modern, speedier app at the time, but realistically, warm feelings toward Flickr may have to more with our own sympathies to how maligned and abandoned the promising service had became once acquired by Yahoo years ago.
Save for the small flower-based memorials that are scattered around different corners of the protest zone, the area has once again acquired a good-natured feel.
A friend recalled that Mr. Clarity — who likened the ponderous pronouncements of legislators and reporters to the bleatings of sheep — had once somehow acquired several hundred lambs' tongues and surreptitiously Scotch-taped them into the clothing, desks and gear of his colleagues.
The data firm had once been acquired by The New York Times company a few years ago, but was spun out and sold back to its previous owners in 2011.
Several suggested that Honeywell woo Karl J. Krapek, president of the United Technologies Corporation, which had once tried to acquire Honeywell.
Anheuser had once sought to acquire the remaining half of Modelo it did not own, as a means to make itself too expensive for InBev, but those talks faltered.
But once acquired, it has the cutting impact of an extra-dry gin martini.
The word "fogy," which had once meant a wounded veteran, acquired its current meaning.
A dealer who was interested in his work had once approached the company about acquiring one of the paintings but was told that Walmart didn't buy art.
