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Protist December 2018 PMID 30447617

Molecular Investigation of the Ciliate Spirostomum semivirescens, with First Transcriptome and New Geographical Records.

Hunter N Hines, Henning Onsbring, Thijs J G Ettema, Genoveva F Esteban

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  • The study presents the first molecular data and transcriptome analysis of the freshwater ciliate Spirostomum semivirescens from the UK and Sweden, revealing its close relation to S minus and identifying its green algal endosymbiont as related to Chlorella vulgaris.
  • Researchers examined genetic features such as stop codon usage, finding a decrease in TGA stop codon frequency with higher gene expression, which may indicate an early stage of codon reassignment in this species.
  • The findings suggest S. semivirescens can survive in oxygen-depleted environments using rhodoquinol-dependent fumarate reduction for respiration, and despite being sampled over large distances, morphologically identical species share the same molecular signature, implying a possible global distribution.]
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