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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Main Authors: Vojtěch David, Pavel Flegontov, Evgeny Gerasimov, Goro Tanifuji, Hassan Hashimi, Maria D. Logacheva, Shinichiro Maruyama, Naoko T. Onodera, Michael W. Gray, John M. Archibald, Julius Lukeš
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-12-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01498-15