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The draft assembly of the radically organized Stylonychia lemnae macronuclear genome.
Genome biology and evolution - 20 Jun 2014
Aeschlimann Samuel H, Jönsson Franziska, Postberg Jan, Stover Nicholas A, Petera Robert L, Lipps Hans-Joachim, Nowacki Mariusz, Swart Estienne C
Abstract excerpt
Stylonychia lemnae is a classical model single-celled eukaryote, and a quintessential ciliate typified by dimorphic nuclei: A small, germline micronucleus and a massive, vegetative macronucleus. The genome within Stylonychia's macronucleus has a very unusual architecture, comprised variably and highly amplified "nanochromosomes," each usually encoding a single gene with a minimal amount of surrounding noncoding...
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