title: The fate of mitochondria after infection of the Mucoralean fungus Absidia glauca by the fusion parasite Parasitella parasitica: comparison of mitochondrial genomes in zygomycetes.
abstract: Absidia glauca and Parasitella parasitica constitute a versatile experimental system for studying horizontal gene transfer between a mucoralean host and its fusion parasite. The A. glauca chondriome has a length of approximately 63 kb and a GC content of 28%. The chondriome of P. parasitica is larger, 83 kb, and contains 31% GC base pairs. These mtDNAs contain the standard fungal mitochondrial gene set, small and large subunit rRNAs, plus ribonuclease P RNA. Comparing zygomycete chondriomes reveals an unusually high number of homing endonuclease genes in P. parasitica, substantiating the mobility of intron elements independent of host-parasite interactions.
authors.affiliation: a Chair for General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics , Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany.
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ellenberger
authors.affiliation: a Chair for General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics , Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany.
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burmester
authors.affiliation: a Chair for General Microbiology and Microbe Genetics , Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena , Germany.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wöstemeyer
mesh_terms: D020095:Absidia / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D007438:Introns; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D009090:Mucorales / Q000235:genetics; D009091:Mucormycosis; D016415:Sequence Alignment
keywords: Absidia glauca; Parasitella parasitica; endonuclease; fusion parasite; zygomycete