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In contrast, here we provide phylogenetic evidence that plastid and nuclear-encoded proteins for the biosynthesis of phylloquinone (PhQ), a redox cofactor of the Photosystem I complex in algae and plants, may represent surviving traces of a chimeric genome in the captured endosymbiont.

The only bird group known for certain to have survived the K Pg boundary is the Neornithines (though one Paleogene species, Qinornis paleocenica, may represent a surviving non-neornithine bird).

It remains unknown to what extent the surviving record may represent the fabrications of corrupt court officials or her own possible fabrications to protect state secrets.

At Copán ritual offerings were deposited around the city's stelae until at least 1000, which may represent the offerings of a surviving elite that still remembered its ancestors, or may be due to highland Maya still regarding the city as a place of pilgrimage long after it had fallen into ruin.

Either way, the population of adult flies that survived spaceflight may represent a select population that could efficiently clear bacteria.

In the marine halophile Vibrio alginolyticus, the introduction of mscL alleviated cell lysis following osmotic downshock [ 14] and thus the product of this gene may represent an important mechanism to survive the transition from marine to freshwater environments.

Big city mayors may represent Labour's best chance of surviving as a plausible party of national government.

Antibody-positive bats may represent the portion of those infected that survived and cleared the virus.

The carved corbel heads that survive on the first floor may represent Edward II and Queen Isabella.

20 21 The function of autophagy activation in these mice, as with the human SLE data, may represent an attempt by autoreactive B cells to survive deletion.

It may turn out that apparently benign housekeeping genes are absolutely critical to the ability of propionibacteria to survive within follicles and these may represent better targets for the treatment of acne than virulence determinants.