White spruce (Picea glauca) is a dominant conifer of the boreal forests of North America, and
providing genomics resources for this commercially valuable tree will help improve forest …

In this review, we discuss types of mitochondrial genome structural organization
(architecture), which includes the following characteristic features: size and the shape of …

The macronuclear genome of the ciliate Oxytricha trifallax displays an extreme and unique
eukaryotic genome architecture with extensive genomic variation. During sexual genome …

Programmed DNA rearrangements in the single-celled eukaryote Oxytricha trifallax
completely rewire its germline into a somatic nucleus during development. This elaborate …

We review what has been inferred about the changes at the level of the proteome that
accompanied the evolution of the mitochondrion from an alphaproteobacterium. We regard …

Genome duality in ciliated protozoa offers a unique system to showcase their epigenome as
a model of inheritance. In Oxytricha, the somatic genome is responsible for vegetative …

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms based on
shared characteristics and, more recently, on evolutionary relationships. With the birth of …

Notwithstanding the initial claims of general conservation, mitochondrial genomes are a
largely heterogeneous set of organellar chromosomes which displays a bewildering …

So far, the phylogenetic studies on ciliated protists have mainly based on single locus, the
nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA). In order to avoid the limitations of single gene/genome trees …

Stylonychia lemnae is a classical model single-celled eukaryote, and a quintessential ciliate
typified by dimorphic nuclei: A small, germline micronucleus and a massive, vegetative …