Tracing the evolution of the plastome and mitogenome in the Chloropicophyceae uncovered convergent tRNA gene losses and a variant plastid genetic code

• Main Authors: Turmel, Monique, Lopes dos Santos, Adriana, Otis, Christian, Sergerie, Roxanne, Lemieux, Claude
• Other Authors: Archibald, John
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Prasinophyte Green Algae; DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering; Picocystis Salinarum
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105927; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48811
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The tiny green algae belonging to the Chloropicophyceae play a key role in marine phytoplankton communities; this newly erected class of prasinophytes comprises two genera (Chloropicon and Chloroparvula) containing each several species. We sequenced the plastomes and mitogenomes of eight Chloropicon...