“…(Knauf and Hachtel, 2002;Borza et al, 2005;Suzuki et al, 2018), the parasitic plant Epifagus virginiana (de Pamphilis and Palmer, 1990), members of the free-living green algal genus Polytoma (Nedelcu, 2001;Figueroa-Martinez et al, 2017), and the euglenoid alga Euglena longa (Gockel and Hachtel, 2000). Additionally, genome-containing non-photosynthetic plastids of red-algal secondary endosymbiotic origin are diverse in nature, and can be found in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum (Wilson et al, 1996;Waller and McFadden, 2005), the cryptophyte Cryptomonas paramecium (Donaher et al, 2009;Tanifuji et al, 2020), the colorless diatom Nitzschia species. (Kamikawa et al, 2018), and the chrysophyte "Spumella" sp.…”