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ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 163-173Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-018-0365-7
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Genome evolution; C-value; Heterotrophic nanoflagellates; Algae; Microbial eukaryotes; Stramenopiles
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- German Research Foundation [BO 3245/17, BO 3245/19]
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The cellular content of nuclear DNA varies up to 200,000-fold between eukaryotes. These differences can arise via different mechanisms. In particular, cell size and nutritional mode may influence evolution of the nuclear DNA content. Chrysophytes comprise organisms with different cell organizations and nutritional modes. Heterotrophic clades evolved independently several times from phototrophic or mixotrophic ancestors. Thus, chrysophytes are an ideal model taxon for investigating the effect of the nutritional mode on cellular DNA content. We investigated the genome size of heterotrophic, mixotrophic, and phototrophic chrysophytes. We demonstrate that cell sizes and genome sizes differ significantly between taxa with different nutritional modes. Phototrophic strains tend to have larger cell volumes and larger genomes than heterotrophic strains do. The investigated mixotrophic strains had intermediate cell volumes and small to intermediate genome sizes. Heterotrophic chrysophytes had the smallest genomes and cell volumes compared to other chrysophytes. In general, genome size increased with cell volume, but cell volume only partially explained the variation in genome size. In particular, genome sizes of mixotrophic strains were smaller than expected based on cell sizes.
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