Organellar introns in fungi, algae, and plants

J Mukhopadhyay, G Hausner - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Introns are ubiquitous in eukaryotic genomes and have long been considered as 'junk
RNA'but the huge energy expenditure in their transcription, removal, and degradation …

Mitogenomics reveals phylogenetic relationships of Arcoida (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and multiple independent expansions and contractions in mitochondrial genome size

L Kong, Y Li, KM Kocot, Y Yang, L Qi, Q Li… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Arcoida, comprising about 570 species of blood cockles, is an ecologically and
economically important lineage of bivalve molluscs. Current classification of arcoids is …

Macrofaunal community structure and biodiversity patterns based on a wood-fall experiment in the deep South-west Atlantic

H Saeedi, AF Bernardino, M Shimabukuro… - Deep Sea Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Wood falls provide locally and temporally restricted inputs of organic material to the deep
sea supporting heterotrophic and chemotrophic fauna. These habitats also play a significant …

Continental slope and submarine canyons: benthic biodiversity and human impacts

FC De Leo, AF Bernardino, PYG Sumida - Brazilian deep-sea biodiversity, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Brazilian Continental Margin hosts a diverse deep seafloor landscape
including vast areas of sedimented slopes, submarine canyons, reef-forming and solitary …

Buried treasure in a public repository: Mining mitochondrial genes of 32 annelid species from sequence reads deposited in the Sequence Read Archive (SRA)

G Kobayashi - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Background The mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of metazoans generally include the
same set of protein-coding genes, which ensures the homology of mitochondrial genes …

Mitogenome of a stink worm (Annelida: Travisiidae) includes degenerate group II intron that is also found in five congeneric species

G Kobayashi, H Itoh, S Kojima - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Mitogenomes are useful for inferring phylogenetic relationships between organisms.
Although the mitogenomes of Annelida, one of the most morphologically and ecologically …

Mitochondrial genomes of two Polydora (Spionidae) species provide further evidence that mitochondrial architecture in the Sedentaria (Annelida) is not conserved

L Ye, T Yao, J Lu, J Jiang, C Bai - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Contrary to the early evidence, which indicated that the mitochondrial architecture in one of
the two major annelida clades, Sedentaria, is relatively conserved, a handful of relatively …

A new species of xylophilic fireworm (Annelida: Amphinomidae: Cryptonome) from deep-sea wood falls in the SW Atlantic

R Barroso, JD Kudenov, KM Halanych, H Saeedi… - Deep Sea Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wood-falls are an abundant source of food to the deep-sea along continental margins that
host high species diversity and specialized food webs. The colonization and degradation of …

First report of the mitogenome of the invasive reef-building polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Annelida: Serpulidae) and a cryptic lineage from the Japanese …

G Kobayashi, H Itoh, N Nakajima - Molecular Biology Reports, 2023 - Springer
Background The mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of the family Serpulidae are
characterized by a high nucleotide sequence divergence and a significant number of gene …

First mitochondrial genomes of Chrysopetalidae (Annelida) from shallow-water and deep-sea chemosynthetic environments

B Cejp, A Ravara, MT Aguado - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Among Annelida, Chrysopetalidae is an ecologically and morphologically diverse
group, which includes shallow-water, deep-sea, free-living, and symbiotic species. Here, the …