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ArticleScientific reports2017

Keeping it complicated: Mitochondrial genome plasticity across diplonemids.

Matus Valach, Sandrine Moreira, Steve Hoffmann, Peter F Stadler, Gertraud Burger

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. A single-cell genome reveals diplonemid-like ancestry of kinetoplastid mitochondrial gene structure.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 6 countries.

Matus ValachDepartment of biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, 2900 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal, H3T 1J4, QC, Canada. matus.a.valach@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8689-0080
Sandrine MoreiraDepartment of biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, 2900 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal, H3T 1J4, QC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-3566
Steve HoffmannLeipzig University, LIFE - Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Haertelstrasse 16-18, Leipzig, D-04107, Germany.
Peter F StadlerBioinformatics Group, Department Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University Leipzig, Härtelstrasse 16-18, D-04107, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5016-5191
Gertraud BurgerDepartment of biochemistry and Robert-Cedergren Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Université de Montréal, 2900 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal, H3T 1J4, QC, Canada. gertraud.burger@umontreal.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-8679-8812
Université de Montréal · CALeipzig University · DEUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

CIHR MOP-79309
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chromosome rearrangements are important drivers in genome and gene evolution, with implications ranging from speciation to development to disease. In the flagellate Diplonema papillatum (Euglenozoa), mitochondrial genome rearrangements have resulted in nearly hundred chromosomes and a systematic dispersal of gene fragments across the multipartite genome. Maturation into functional RNAs involves separate transcription of gene pieces, joining of precursor RNAs via trans-splicing, and RNA editing by substitution and uridine additions both reconstituting crucial coding sequence. How widespread these unusual features are across diplonemids is unclear. We have analyzed the mitochondrial genomes and transcriptomes of four species from the Diplonema/Rhynchopus clade, revealing a considerable genomic plasticity. Although gene breakpoints, and thus the total number of gene pieces (~80), are essentially conserved across this group, the number of distinct chromosomes varies by a factor of two, with certain chromosomes combining up to eight unrelated gene fragments. Several internal protein-coding gene pieces overlap substantially, resulting, for example, in a stretch of 22 identical amino acids in cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5. Finally, the variation of post-transcriptional editing patterns across diplonemids indicates compensation of two adverse trends: rapid sequence evolution and loss of genetic information through unequal chromosome segregation.

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Genome, MitochondrialRNA EditingChromosomesDNA, MitochondrialEuglenozoaPhylogenyTrans-SplicingDNA, Mitochondrial

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