Gene Loss and Error-Prone RNA Editing in the Mitochondrion of <italic toggle="yes">Perkinsela</italic>, an Endosymbiotic Kinetoplastid
ABSTRACT Perkinsela is an enigmatic early-branching kinetoplastid protist that lives as an obligate endosymbiont inside Paramoeba (Amoebozoa). We have sequenced the highly reduced mitochondrial genome of Perkinsela, which possesses only six protein-coding genes (cox1, cox2, cox3, cob, atp6, and rps1...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2015-12-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01498-15 |