Decryption of the survival “black box”: gene family expansion promotes the encystment in ciliated protists

BMC Genomics

Table 2 The macronuclear (MAC) genomes and amino acid sequences sources of 17 ciliates

Class	Order	Species	MAC genomes and amino acid sequence sources
Spirotrichea	Sporadotrichida	Stylonychia lemnae	http://ciliates.org/
		Oxytricha trifallax	http://ciliates.org/
		Halteria grandinella	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
	Urostylida	Pseudokeronopsis flava	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
		Pseudokeronopsis carnea	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
		Pseudourostyla cristata	present work
	Euplotida	Euplotes octocarinatus	http://ciliates.ihb.ac.cn/
		Euplotes aediculatus	http://ciliates.org/
		Euplotes vannus	http://ciliates.org/
Oligohymenophorea	Peniculida	Paramecium tetraurelia	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
	Peniculida	Paramecium dodecaurelia	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
	Tetrahymenida	Tetrahymena thermophila	http://ciliates.org/
	Tetrahymenida	Tetrahymena borealis	http://ciliates.ihb.ac.cn/tcgd/
	Ophryoglenida	Ichthyophthirius multifiliis	http://ciliates.org/
	Philasterida	Pseudocohnilembus persalinus	http://ciliates.ihb.ac.cn/
Heterotrichea	Heterotrichida	Stentor coeruleus	http://ciliates.org/
Litostomatea	Entodiniomorphida	Entodinium caudatum	asked for data from the author [37]

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