Massive colonization of protein-coding exons by selfish genetic elements in Paramecium germline genomes.
Sellis D, Guérin F, Arnaiz O, Pett W, Lerat E, Boggetto N, Krenek S, Berendonk T, Couloux A, Aury JM, Labadie K, Malinsky S, Bhullar S, Meyer E, Sperling L, Duret L, Duharcourt S.
Sellis D, et al.
PLoS Biol. 2021 Jul 29;19(7):e3001309. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001309. eCollection 2021 Jul.
PLoS Biol. 2021.
PMID: 34324490
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To understand the evolutionary origin of this peculiar genomic architecture, we sequenced the MIC genomes of 9 Paramecium species (from approximately 100 Mb in Paramecium aurelia species to >1.5 Gb in Paramecium caudatum). We detected several waves of IES gains, both in …
To understand the evolutionary origin of this peculiar genomic architecture, we sequenced the MIC genomes of 9 Paramecium species (from appr …