@article {Turmel2019,
	title = {Tracing the evolution of the plastome and mitogenome in the chloropicophyceae uncovered convergent tRNA gene losses and a variant plastid genetic code},
	journal = {Genome Biology and Evolution},
	volume = {in press},
	year = {2019},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC15,RCC1871,RCC2335,RCC2339,RCC287,RCC3374,RCC3402,RCC4434,RCC4572,RCC4656,RCC696,RCC856,RCC998,RCC999},
	month = {apr},
	keywords = {RCC15, RCC1871, RCC2335, RCC2339, RCC287, RCC3374, RCC3402, RCC4434, RCC4572, RCC4656, RCC696, RCC856, RCC998, RCC999},
	issn = {1759-6653},
	doi = {10.1093/gbe/evz074},
	url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/530998v1 https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evz074/5425330},
	author = {Turmel, Monique and dos Santos, Adriana Lopes and Otis, Christian and Sergerie, Roxanne and Lemieux, Claude},
	editor = {Archibald, John}
}
@article {Turmel2010,
	title = {A deviant genetic code in the reduced mitochondrial genome of the picoplanktonic green alga pycnococcus provasolii},
	journal = {Journal of Molecular Evolution},
	volume = {70},
	number = {2},
	year = {2010},
	note = {ISBN: 0022-2844 tex.mendeley-tags: RCC299},
	pages = {203{\textendash}214},
	abstract = {Reduction in size of flagellated chlorophytes occurred multiple times during evolution, providing the opportunity to study the consequences of cell reduction on genome architecture. Recent investigations on the chloroplast genomes of the tiny prasinophyceans Ostreococcus tauri (Mamiellales), Micromonas sp. RCC299 (Mamiellales), and Pycnococcus provasolii (Pseudocourfieldiales) highlighted their extreme compaction and reduced gene repertoires. Genome compaction is also exemplified by the Ostreococcus and Micromonas mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) although they have retained almost all of the about 65 genes presumably present in the mitochondria of ancestral prasinophyceans. In this study, the mitochondrial genome of Pycnococcus was sequenced and compared to those of previously examined chlorophytes. Our results document the first case where cellular reduction of a free-living alga was accompanied by marked reduction in gene content of both the mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes. At 24,321 bp, the intronless Pycnococcus mitochondrial genome falls within the lower size range displayed by green algal mtDNAs. The 36 conserved genes, specifying two rRNAs with conventional structures, 16 tRNAs and 18 proteins, are all encoded on the same DNA strand and represent 88\% of the genome. Besides a pronounced codon bias, the protein-coding genes feature a variant genetic code characterized by the use of TGA (normally a stop codon) to code for tryptophan, and the unprecedented use of TTA and TTG (normally leucine codons) as stop codons. We conclude that substantial reduction of the mitochondrial genome occurred in at least three independent chlorophyte lineages and that this process entailed a number of convergent changes in these lineages.},
	keywords = {RCC299},
	doi = {10.1007/s00239-010-9322-6},
	author = {Turmel, Monique and Otis, Christian and Lemieux, Claude}
}
