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Spliceosome loss in the red tide ciliate <i>Mesodinium rubrum</i> presents a symbiotic cul-de-sac

2026-07-13

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Mesodinium rubrum , a marine microbial eukaryote associated with some of the largest red tides on Earth, has the remarkable ability to commandeer the plastids, mitochondria and nuclei from the alga Teleaulax amphioxeia for photosynthesis. Here we report analyses of assemblies of M. rubrum ’s two nuclear genomes. Unexpectedly, M. rubrum appears to have completely lost its spliceosomal introns, most spliceosomal...

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Literature Corpus work: 5cae605c-aa69-557c-a2c9-c02d69866409
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.09.736142

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