Massive colonization of protein-coding exons by selfish genetic elements in Paramecium germline genomes
Diamantis Sellis, Frédéric Guèrin, Olivier Arnaiz, Walker Pett, Emmanuelle Lerat, Nicole Boggetto, Sascha Krenek, Thomas Ulrich Berendonk, Arnaud Couloux, Jean‐Marc Aury, Karine Labadie, Sophie Malinsky, Simran Bhullar, Éric Meyer, Linda Sperling, , Sandra Duharcourt
The paper investigates the evolutionary origin of Internal Eliminated Sequences (IESs) in Paramecium genomes, showing transposable elements drive their proliferation and diversification.
PLoS Biology · Jul 29, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics