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The expanded genome of Hexamita inflata, a free-living diplomonad.

Zeynep Akdeniz, Michal Havelka, Michal Stoklasa, Alejandro Jiménez-González, Vojtěch Žárský, Feifei Xu, Courtney W Stairs, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Martin Kolísko, Jan Provazník and 3 more

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Stuck on you Giardia.Nature microbiology · 2026
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13 authors.

Zeynep AkdenizDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5279-6077
Michal HavelkaDepartment of Parasitology, Charles University, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre in Vestec (BIOCEV), Staré Město, Czech Republic.
Michal StoklasaDepartment of Parasitology, Charles University, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre in Vestec (BIOCEV), Staré Město, Czech Republic.
Alejandro Jiménez-GonzálezDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3493-4154
Vojtěch ŽárskýDepartment of Parasitology, Charles University, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre in Vestec (BIOCEV), Staré Město, Czech Republic.
Feifei XuDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Courtney W StairsDepartment of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-0970
Jon Jerlström-HultqvistDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Martin KolískoInstitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Jan ProvazníkEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genomics Core Facility, Heidelberg, Germany.
Staffan SvärdDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. staffan.svard@icm.uu.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7392-1746
Jan O AnderssonDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3075-4896
Jan TachezyDepartment of Parasitology, Charles University, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Centre in Vestec (BIOCEV), Staré Město, Czech Republic.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diplomonads are anaerobic, flagellated protists, being part of the Metamonada group of Eukaryotes. Diplomonads either live as endobionts (parasites and commensals) of animals or free-living in low-oxygen environments. Genomic information is available for parasitic diplomonads like Giardia intestinalis and Spironucleus salmonicida, while little is known about the genomic arrangements of free-living diplomonads. We have generated the first reference genome of a free-living diplomonad, Hexamita inflata. The final version of the genome assembly is fragmented (1241 contigs) but substantially larger (142 Mbp) than the parasitic diplomonad genomes (9.8-14.7 Mbp). It encodes 79,341 proteins; 29,874 have functional annotations and 49,467 are hypothetical proteins. Interspersed repeats comprise 34% of the genome (9617 Retroelements, 2676 DNA transposons). The large expansion of protein-encoding capacity and the interspersed repeats are the major reasons for the large genome size. This genome from a free-living diplomonad will be the basis for further studies of the Diplomonadida lineage and the evolution of parasitism-free living style transitions.

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DiplomonadidaGenome, ProtozoanInterspersed Repetitive SequencesRetroelementsRetroelements

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PMCPMC11787283

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