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BMC Genomics
Open AccessResearch article
Complete Sequence and Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of
Hemiselmis andersenii CCMP644 (Cryptophyceae)
Eunsoo Kim1, Christopher E Lane1, Bruce A Curtis2, Catherine Kozera2,
Sharen Bowman2,3 and John M Archibald*1
Address: 1Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2The Atlantic Genome Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and 3Department of
Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Email: Eunsoo Kim - eunsookim@dal.ca; Christopher E Lane - C.Lane@dal.ca; Bruce A Curtis - Bbcurtis@genomeatlantic.ca;
Catherine Kozera - Catherine.Kozera@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca; Sharen Bowman - Sharen.Bowman@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca; John M Archibald* - jmarchib@dal.ca
* Corresponding author
Abstract
Background: Cryptophytes are an enigmatic group of unicellular eukaryotes with plastids derived
by secondary (i.e., eukaryote-eukaryote) endosymbiosis. Cryptophytes are unusual in that they
possess four genomes­a host cell-derived nuclear and mitochondrial genome and an
endosymbiont-derived plastid and 'nucleomorph' genome. The evolutionary origins of the host and

Source: Archibald, John - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University
Lane, Chris - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island

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