Spliceosome loss in the red tide ciliate Mesodinium rubrum presents a symbiotic cul-de-sac
Brandon Kwee Boon Seah, Nurislam Shaikhutdinov, Wesley C. DeMontigny…·Estienne Carl Swart
The paper analyzes the nuclear genomes of Mesodinium rubrum and finds it lacks spliceosomal introns and related machinery, suggesting introns hinder endosymbiotic genomic integration.