Red Organellar Genomes

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This project includes python scripts with examples used for the below article in GBE. It is also archived on Figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17111693).

Red algal plastids exhibit large genome size variation, especially in the recently described subphylum Proteorhodophytina. By contrast, their mitochondrial genomes remain unexplored. Here, we sequenced, assembled, and analyzed new plastid and mitochondrial genomes of 25 species of red microalgae. We uncovered new cases of genome size expansion in plastids and mitochondria, in both cases associated with group II intron proliferation. The phylogenomic analysis supported that these expansions occurred several times independently. URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac037

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