nucleomorph

id: GO:0033009
name: nucleomorph
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A small, vestigial nucleus found in some plastids that derive from a eukaryotic endosymbiont. Observed in chlorarachniophytes and cryptomonads, which acquired their plastids from a green and red alga respectively.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043231intracellular membrane-bounded organelle
GO:0044435plastid part