Parallel evolution of histophagy in ciliates of the genus Tetrahymena.

"the nucleotide sequences used in this paper are available from the genbank/embl databases under the following accession numbers: colpidium campylum x56532 [ ]; glaucoma chattoni x56533 [ ]; ichthyophthirius multifiliis u 17354 [ ]; ophryoglena catenula u 17355 [ ]; tetrahymena australis x56167 [ ]; tetrahymena borealis m98020 [ ]; tetrahymena capricornis x56172 [ ]; tetrahymena corlissi u 17356 [ ]; tetrahymena empidokyrea u 36222 [ ]; tetrahymena hegewischi x56166 [ ]; tetrahymena hyperangularis x56173 [ ]; tetrahymena malaccensis m26360 [ ]; tetrahymena patula x56174 [ ]; tetrahymena pigmentosa m26358 [ ]; tetrahymena pyriformis is x56171 [ ]; tetrahymena thermophila m 10932 [ ]; and tetrahymena tropicalis x56168 [ ]. additional file 1:table1 xls"

"AcknowledgementsThis work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to M. Strüder-Kypke (STR 550/1–1) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to D.H. Lynn. C. A. Jerome was supported by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship. We want to thank Prof. W. Foissner who sent us a culture of T. mobilis and Professors J. 0. Washburn and J. R. Anderson from whose laboratory a sample of tree-hole tetrahymenids was obtained. The helpful comments of one anonymous reviewer are gratefully acknowledged."