A functional bacterial-derived restriction modification system in the mitochondrion of a heterotrophic protist
The overarching trend in mitochondrial genome evolution is functional streamlining coupled with gene loss. Therefore, gene acquisition by mitochondria is considered to be exceedingly rare. Selfish elements in the form of self-splicing introns occur in many organellar genomes, but the wider diversity...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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