Gene fragmentation and RNA editing without borders: eccentric mitochondrial genomes of diplonemids

B Kaur, K Záhonová, M Valach… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Diplonemids are highly abundant heterotrophic marine protists. Previous studies showed
that their strikingly bloated mitochondrial genome is unique because of systematic gene …

Ophirina amphinema n. gen., n. sp., a New Deeply Branching Discobid with Phylogenetic Affinity to Jakobids

A Yabuki, Y Gyaltshen, AA Heiss, K Fujikura, E Kim - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We report a novel nanoflagellate, Ophirina amphinema n. gen. n. sp., isolated from a lagoon
of the Solomon Islands. The flagellate displays 'typical excavate'morphological …

A comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes in eustigmatophyte algae

T Ševčíková, V Klimeš, V Zbránková… - Genome biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Eustigmatophyceae (Ochrophyta, Stramenopiles) is a small algal group with
species of the genus Nannochloropsis being its best studied representatives. Nuclear and …

Comparative mitochondrial genomics of cryptophyte algae: gene shuffling and dynamic mobile genetic elements

JI Kim, HS Yoon, G Yi, W Shin, JM Archibald - Bmc Genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Cryptophytes are an ecologically important group of algae comprised of
phototrophic, heterotrophic and osmotrophic species. This lineage is of great interest to …

Hyper-Eccentric Structural Genes in the Mitochondrial Genome of the Algal Parasite Hemistasia phaeocysticola

A Yabuki, G Tanifuji, C Kusaka… - Genome Biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Diplonemid mitochondria are considered to have very eccentric structural genes. Coding
regions of individual diplonemid mitochondrial genes are fragmented into small pieces and …