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The fate of mitochondria after infection of the Mucoralean fungus Absidia glauca by the fusion parasite Parasitella parasitica: comparison of mitochondrial genomes in zygomycetes.
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis [Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal] 2018 Jan; Vol. 29 (1), pp. 113-120. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Dec 30. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Absidia glauca and Parasitella parasitica constitute a versatile experimental system for studying horizontal gene transfer between a mucoralean host and its fusion parasite. The A. glauca chondriome has a length of approximately 63 kb and a GC content of 28%. The chondriome of P. parasitica is larger, 83 kb, and contains 31% GC base pairs. These mtDNAs contain the standard fungal mitochondrial gene set, small and large subunit rRNAs, plus ribonuclease P RNA. Comparing zygomycete chondriomes reveals an unusually high number of homing endonuclease genes in P. parasitica, substantiating the mobility of intron elements independent of host-parasite interactions.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2470-1408
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28034347
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2016.1248432