Size isn't everything: lessons in genetic miniaturisation from nucleomorphs.

Abstract:

:Nucleomorphs are the vestigial nuclear genomes of eukaryotic algal cells now existing as endosymbionts within a host cell. Molecular investigation of the endosymbiont genomes has allowed important insights into the process of eukaryote/eukaryote cell endosymbiosis and has also disclosed a plethora of interesting genetic phenomena. Although nucleomorph genomes retain classic eukaryotic traits such as linear chromosomes, telomeres, and introns, they are highly reduced and modified. Nucleomorph chromosomes are extremely small and encode compacted genes which are disrupted by the tiniest spliceosomal introns found in any eukaryote. Mechanisms of gene expression within nucleomorphs have apparently accommodated increasingly parsimonious DNA usage by permitting genes to become co-transcribed or, in select cases, to overlap.

journal_name

Curr Opin Genet Dev

authors

Gilson PR,Maier UG,McFadden GI

doi

10.1016/s0959-437x(97)80043-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-12-01 00:00:00

pages

800-6

issue

6

eissn

0959-437X

issn

1879-0380

pii

S0959-437X(97)80043-3

journal_volume

7

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