The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution
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- Bram Verhelst (UGent) , Yves Van de Peer (UGent) and Pierre Rouzé (UGent)
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- Genes in pieces and spliceosomal introns are a landmark of eukaryotes, with intron invasion usually assumed to have happened early on in evolution. Here, we analyse the intron landscape of Micromonas, a unicellular green alga in the Mamiellophyceae lineage, demonstrating the co-existence of several classes of introns and the occurrence of recent massive intron invasion. This study focuses on two strains, CCMP1545 and RCC299, and their related individuals from ocean samplings, showing that they not only harbour different classes of introns depending on their location in the genome, as for other Mamiellophyceae, but uniquely carry several classes of repeat introns. These introns, dubbed introner elements (IEs), are found at novel positions in genes and have conserved sequences, contrary to canonical introns. This IE invasion has a huge impact on the genome, doubling the number of introns in the CCMP1545 strain. We hypothesize that each IE class originated from a single ancestral IE that has been colonizing the genome after strain divergence by inserting copies of itself into genes by intron transposition, likely involving reverse splicing. Along with similar cases recently observed in other organisms, our observations in Micromonas strains shed a new light on the evolution of introns, suggesting that intron gain is more widespread than previously thought.
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- RESOURCE, GENES, EUKARYOTES, ORIGIN, SPLICEOSOMAL INTRONS, introner elements, Micromonas, intron gain, Mamiellophyceae, intron evolution, GAINS, FUNGI
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4190304
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- Verhelst, Bram, et al. “The Complex Intron Landscape and Massive Intron Invasion in a Picoeukaryote Provides Insights into Intron Evolution.” GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, vol. 5, no. 12, 2013, pp. 2393–401, doi:10.1093/gbe/evt189.
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- Verhelst, B., Van de Peer, Y., & Rouzé, P. (2013). The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 5(12), 2393–2401. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt189
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- Verhelst, Bram, Yves Van de Peer, and Pierre Rouzé. 2013. “The Complex Intron Landscape and Massive Intron Invasion in a Picoeukaryote Provides Insights into Intron Evolution.” GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 5 (12): 2393–2401. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt189.
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- Verhelst, Bram, Yves Van de Peer, and Pierre Rouzé. 2013. “The Complex Intron Landscape and Massive Intron Invasion in a Picoeukaryote Provides Insights into Intron Evolution.” GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 5 (12): 2393–2401. doi:10.1093/gbe/evt189.
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- 1.Verhelst B, Van de Peer Y, Rouzé P. The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 2013;5(12):2393–401.
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- [1]B. Verhelst, Y. Van de Peer, and P. Rouzé, “The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution,” GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 2393–2401, 2013.
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abstract = {{Genes in pieces and spliceosomal introns are a landmark of eukaryotes, with intron invasion usually assumed to have happened early on in evolution. Here, we analyse the intron landscape of Micromonas, a unicellular green alga in the Mamiellophyceae lineage, demonstrating the co-existence of several classes of introns and the occurrence of recent massive intron invasion. This study focuses on two strains, CCMP1545 and RCC299, and their related individuals from ocean samplings, showing that they not only harbour different classes of introns depending on their location in the genome, as for other Mamiellophyceae, but uniquely carry several classes of repeat introns. These introns, dubbed introner elements (IEs), are found at novel positions in genes and have conserved sequences, contrary to canonical introns. This IE invasion has a huge impact on the genome, doubling the number of introns in the CCMP1545 strain. We hypothesize that each IE class originated from a single ancestral IE that has been colonizing the genome after strain divergence by inserting copies of itself into genes by intron transposition, likely involving reverse splicing. Along with similar cases recently observed in other organisms, our observations in Micromonas strains shed a new light on the evolution of introns, suggesting that intron gain is more widespread than previously thought.}},
author = {{Verhelst, Bram and Van de Peer, Yves and Rouzé, Pierre}},
issn = {{1759-6653}},
journal = {{GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION}},
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language = {{eng}},
number = {{12}},
pages = {{2393--2401}},
title = {{The complex intron landscape and massive intron invasion in a picoeukaryote provides insights into intron evolution}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt189}},
volume = {{5}},
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}
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