A new lineage of non-photosynthetic green algae with extreme organellar genomes.
Tomáš PánekDovilė BarcytėSebastian Cristian TreitliKristína ZáhonováMartin SokolTereza ŠevčíkováEliška ZadrobílkováKarin JaškeNaoji YubukiIvan ČepičkaMarek EliášPublished in: BMC biology (2022)
With its unprecedented combination of plastid and mitochondrial genome characteristics, Leontynka pushes the frontiers of organellar genome diversity and is an interesting model for studying organellar genome evolution.