This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/ ) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2009 The Author 1 LETTER Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal that two enigmatic protist lineages, Telonemia and Centroheliozoa, are related to photosynthetic chromalveolates Burki F 1 , Inagaki Y 2 , Brate J 3 , Archibald JM 4 , Keeling PJ 5 , Cavalier-Smith T 6 , Sakaguchi M 2 , Hashimoto T 2 , Horak A 5 , Kumar S 3 , Klaveness D 3 , Jakobsen KS 3,7 , Pawlowski J 1* , and Shalchian-Tabrizi K 3* * Authors for Correspondence: Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, Tel: +47 41045328, E-mail: kamran@bio.uio.no Jan Pawlowski, Tel: +41 223793069, E-mail: Jan.Pawlowski@unige.ch 1 Department of Zoology and Animal biology, University of Geneva, 30 quai Ernest- Ansermet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland 2 Center for Computational Sciences, Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan 3 Microbial Evolution Research Group (MERG), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway 4 Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1X5, Canada 5 Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6S 1T4, Canada 6 Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK 7 Department of Biology, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway Genome Biology and Evolution Advance Access published July 27, 2009 doi:10.1093/gbe/evp022 by guest on February 16, 2016 http://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from