Mitochondrial genome diversity across the subphylum Saccharomycotina.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Eukaryotic life depends on the functional elements encoded by both the nuclear genome and organellar genomes, such as those contained within the mitochondria. The content, size, and structure of the mitochondrial genome varies across organisms with potentially large implications for phenotypic variance and resulting evolutionary trajectories. Among yeasts in the subphylum Saccharomycotina, extensive differences have been observed in various species relative to the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but mitochondrial genome sampling across many groups has been scarce, even as hundreds of nuclear genomes have become available.

Methods

By extracting mitochondrial assemblies from existing short-read genome sequence datasets, we have greatly expanded both t

SUBMITTER: Wolters JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10701893 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature