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Massive invasion of organellar DNA drives nuclear genome evolution in <i>Toxoplasma</i>

2023-05-22

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Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic protist pathogen that infects up to 1/3 of the human population. This apicomplexan parasite contains three genome sequences: nuclear (63 Mb); plastid organellar, ptDNA (35 kb); and mitochondrial organellar, mtDNA (5.9 kb of non-repetitive sequence). We find that the nuclear genome contains a significant amount of NUMTs (nuclear DNA of mitochondrial origin) and NUPTs (nuclear DNA of...

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Literature Corpus work: 0cda8ae7-3a33-56b4-bef9-01fea2247ace
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.22.539837

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