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Transposable element abundance correlates with mode of transmission in microsporidian parasites.
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- Microsporidia: evolution, infection mechanisms and host impact.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Evolutionary Study of Transposable Elements: Structural Characterization and Phylogenomic Profiling in Plant Genomes.Journal of molecular evolution · 2026Review
- Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of Microsporidia sp. MB, a microsporidian symbiont of Anopheles coluzzii isolated from Burkina Faso.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Variation in Genome Architecture and Epigenetic Modification Across the Microsporidia Phylogeny.Genome biology and evolution · 2025Article
- MicroAnnot: A Dedicated Workflow for Accurate Microsporidian Genome Annotation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Functional annotation of a divergent genome using sequence and structure-based similarity.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Near chromosome-level genome assembly of the microsporidium Hamiltosporidium tvaerminnensis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- The intracellular parasite Anncaliia algerae induces a massive miRNA down-regulation in human cells.Non-coding RNA research · 2023Article
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- Population genetic analysis of the microsporidium Ordospora colligata reveals the role of natural selection and phylogeography on its extremely compact and reduced genome.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2023Article
- Human follicular mites: Ectoparasites becoming symbionts.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Transposable elements promote the evolution of genome streamlining.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Comparative Genomics of Microsporidia.Experientia supplementum (2012) · 2022Article
- Distribution of Merlin in eukaryotes and first report of DNA transposons in kinetoplastid protists.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
The extreme genome reduction and physiological simplicity of some microsporidia has been attributed to their intracellular, obligate parasitic lifestyle. Although not all microsporidian genomes are small (size range from about 2 to 50 MB), it is suggested that the size of their genomes has been streamlined by natural selection. We explore the hypothesis that vertical transmission in microsporidia produces population bottlenecks, and thus reduces the effectiveness of natural selection. Here we compare the transposable element (TE) content of 47 microsporidian genomes, and show that genome size is positively correlated with the amount of TEs, and that species that experience vertical transmission have larger genomes with higher proportion of TEs. Our findings are consistent with earlier studies inferring that nonadaptive processes play an important role in microsporidian evolution.
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