[Chen, Tianbing
; Yi, Zhenzhen
; Lin, Xiaofeng] S China Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Lab Protozool, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, Peoples R China
; [Huang, Jie] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Key Lab Aquat Biodivers & Conservat, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
WOS标题词:
Science & Technology
; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]:
Microbiology
研究领域[WOS]:
Microbiology
英文摘要:
In hypotrichous ciliates, macronuclear chromosomes are gene-sized, and micronuclear genes contain short, noncoding internal eliminated segments (IESs) as well as macronuclear-destined segments (MDSs). In the present study, we characterized the complete macronuclear gene and two to three types of micronuclear actin genes of two urostylid species, i.e. Pseudokeronopsis rubra and Uroleptopsis citrina. Our results show that (1) the gain/loss of IES happens frequently in the subclass Hypotrichia (formerly Stichotrichia), and high fragmentation of germline genes does not imply for gene scrambling; and (2) the micronuclear actin gene is scrambled in the order Sporadotrichida but nonscrambled in the orders Urostylida and Stichotrichida, indicating the independent evolution of MIC-actin gene patterns in different orders of hypotrichs; (3) locations of MDS-IES junctions of micronuclear actin gene in coding regions are conserved among closely related species.
1.S China Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Lab Protozool, Guangzhou 510631, Guangdong, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Key Lab Aquat Biodivers & Conservat, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China
