12 Result(s)

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A chromosome-scale reference genome for Spironucleus salmonicida

Spironucleus salmonicida is a diplomonad causing systemic infection in salmon. The first S. salmonicida genome assembly was published 2014 and has been a valuable reference genome in protist research. However, th...

Feifei Xu, Alejandro Jiménez-González, Zeynep Kurt, Ásgeir Ástvaldsson… in Scientific Data (2022)

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Erratum to: On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1

Feifei Xu, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Martin Kolisko, Alastair G. B. Simpson… in BMC Biology (2016)

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On the reversibility of parasitism: adaptation to a free-living lifestyle via gene acquisitions in the diplomonad Trepomonas sp. PC1

It is generally thought that the evolutionary transition to parasitism is irreversible because it is associated with the loss of functions needed for a free-living lifestyle. Nevertheless, free-living taxa are...

Feifei Xu, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Martin Kolisko, Alastair G. B. Simpson… in BMC Biology (2016)

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Hydrogenosomes in the diplomonad Spironucleus salmonicida

Acquisition of the mitochondrion is a key event in the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, but diversification of the organelle has occurred during eukaryotic evolution. One example of such mitochondria-related ...

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Elin Einarsson, Feifei Xu, Karin Hjort… in Nature Communications (2013)

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Genome analysis and comparative genomics of a Giardia intestinalis assemblage E isolate

Giardia intestinalis is a protozoan parasite that causes diarrhea in a wide range of mammalian species. To further understand the genetic diversity between the Giardia intestinalis species, we have performed geno...

Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Oscar Franzén, Johan Ankarklev, Feifei Xu… in BMC Genomics (2010)

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Large genomic differences between the morphologically indistinguishable diplomonads Spironucleus barkhanus and Spironucleus salmonicida

Microbial eukaryotes show large variations in genome structure and content between lineages, indicating extensive flexibility over evolutionary timescales. Here we address the tempo and mode of such changes wi...

Katarina Roxström-Lindquist, Jon Jerlström-Hultqvist, Anders Jørgensen… in BMC Genomics (2010)

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A genomic survey of the fish parasite Spironucleus salmonicida indicates genomic plasticity among diplomonads and significant lateral gene transfer in eukaryote genome evolution

Comparative genomic studies of the mitochondrion-lacking protist group Diplomonadida (diplomonads) has been lacking, although Giardia lamblia has been intensively studied. We have performed a sequence survey proj...

Jan O Andersson, Åsa M Sjögren, David S Horner, Colleen A Murphy… in BMC Genomics (2007)

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Evolution of four gene families with patchy phylogenetic distributions: influx of genes into protist genomes

Lateral gene transfer (LGT) in eukaryotes from non-organellar sources is a controversial subject in need of further study. Here we present gene distribution and phylogenetic analyses of the genes encoding the ...

Jan O Andersson, Robert P Hirt, Peter G Foster, Andrew J Roger in BMC Evolutionary Biology (2006)

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Evolution of glutamate dehydrogenase genes: evidence for lateral gene transfer within and between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Lateral gene transfer can introduce genes with novel functions into genomes or replace genes with functionally similar orthologs or paralogs. Here we present a study of the occurrence of the latter gene replac...

Jan O Andersson, Andrew J Roger in BMC Evolutionary Biology (2003)