TY - JOUR

T1 - Lineage-specific and highly derived gene sequences among Amoebozoa revealed by the comparative analysis of transcriptomes from twelve amoebozoan species

AU - Bondarenko, N.

AU - Bondarenko, A.

AU - Smirnov, A.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Amoebozoa represent a difficult group for traditional morphology-based taxonomy. Molecular approaches, such as gene sequencing and DNA barcoding have greatly enhanced our knowledge on the diversity of these organisms. However, metagenomics studies of Amoebozoa still did not provide as impressive results as they did among some other groups of protists. In environmental DNA surveys done on fragments of SSU rDNA gene and other traditional DNA barcodes Amoebozoa genes normally constitute a minor part of the total gene diversity and represent only the most abundant lineages. A potential way to resolve this problem is the usage of DNA barcodes based on genes, which are unique or highly derived in this group of organisms. In the present study, we attempted to find such a genes and gene families with low level of paralogy, potentially appropriate as Amoebozoa-specific DNA barcodes. For this we re-assembled transcriptomes of 12 amoebozoan species available from the public databases and performed gene annotation and id

AB - Amoebozoa represent a difficult group for traditional morphology-based taxonomy. Molecular approaches, such as gene sequencing and DNA barcoding have greatly enhanced our knowledge on the diversity of these organisms. However, metagenomics studies of Amoebozoa still did not provide as impressive results as they did among some other groups of protists. In environmental DNA surveys done on fragments of SSU rDNA gene and other traditional DNA barcodes Amoebozoa genes normally constitute a minor part of the total gene diversity and represent only the most abundant lineages. A potential way to resolve this problem is the usage of DNA barcodes based on genes, which are unique or highly derived in this group of organisms. In the present study, we attempted to find such a genes and gene families with low level of paralogy, potentially appropriate as Amoebozoa-specific DNA barcodes. For this we re-assembled transcriptomes of 12 amoebozoan species available from the public databases and performed gene annotation and id

KW - Amoebozoa

KW - Amoebozoa-specific genes

KW - DNA barcoding

U2 - 10.1111/jeu.12397

DO - 10.1111/jeu.12397

M3 - Article

VL - 0

SP - 1

EP - 10

JO - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

JF - Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

SN - 1066-5234

ER -