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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Maslov DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC359356 | biostudies-other | 1994 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Molecular and cellular biology 19941201 12
The bodonids and cryptobiids represent an early diverged sister group to the trypanosomatids among the kinetoplastid protozoa. The trypanosome type of uridine insertion-deletion RNA editing was found to occur in the cryptobiid fish parasite Trypanoplasma borreli. A pan-edited ribosomal protein, S12, and a novel 3'- and 5'-edited cytochrome b, in addition to an unedited cytochrome oxidase III gene and an apparently unedited 12S rRNA gene, were found in a 6-kb fragment of the 80- to 90-kb mitochon ...[more]