reorganization of the plastid the apicoplast lost its ability to photosynthesize. These losses of function are hypothesized to have occurred at an early evolutionary stage in order to have allowed sufficient time for the complete degradation of acknowledged photosynthetic relicts and the disappearance of a nucleomorph.

Architecture and distribution

Most Apicomplexa contain a single ovoid shaped apicoplast that is found at the anterior of the invading parasitic

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