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Comparative Genomics Reveals Two Major Bouts of Gene Retroposition Coinciding with Crucial Periods of Symbiodinium Evolution.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2017
Song Bo, Morse David, Song Yue, Fu Yuan, Lin Xin, Wang Wenliang, Cheng Shifeng, Chen Wenbin, Liu Xin, Lin Senjie
Abstract excerpt
Gene retroposition is an important mechanism of genome evolution but the role it plays in dinoflagellates, a critical player in marine ecosystems, is not known. Until recently, when the genomes of two coral-symbiotic dinoflagellate genomes, Symbiodinium kawagutii and S. minutum, were released, it has not been possible to systematically study these retrogenes. Here we examine the abundant retrogenes (∼23% of the...
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