PLOS Biology<p>The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/diatom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diatom</span></a> genus Nitzschia lost photosynthesis to become free-living heterotrophs. This study shows how <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HGT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HGT</span></a> from marine bacteria, followed by <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GeneDuplication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneDuplication</span></a> & <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/neofunctionalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neofunctionalization</span></a>, allowed them to catabolize <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/alginate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alginate</span></a> & live off brown algal polysaccharides <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PLOSBiology</span></a></span> <a href="https://plos.io/41WaW8e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">plos.io/41WaW8e</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>