Unexpected conservation of the RNA splicing apparatus in the highly streamlined genome of Galdieria sulphuraria.
Huan QiuAlessandro W RossoniAndreas P M WeberHwan Su YoonDebashish BhattacharyaPublished in: BMC evolutionary biology (2018)
Our work reveals the unique nature of G. sulphuraria among red algae with respect to the conservation of the spliceosomal machinery and introns. We discuss the possible implications of these findings in the highly streamlined genome of this free-living eukaryote.
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