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An analogous genetic system ( Arr or ACR ) has also been described in the eukaryote Saccharomyces cervisiae [ 24 ] . Thus the ars operon, or similar arsenic resistance systems, appears to be relatively widespread throughout microorganisms.
The parasitic microsporidean Encephalitozoon caniculi has been under severe and sustained evolutionary pressure to reduce the size of its genome, which is the smallest of any sequenced eukaryote, with an overall length of only 3 Mbp [ 43 ] . One result of this pressure has been to compact many of the essential genes that the organism could not afford to eliminate [ 44 ] .
The baker's yeast protein RAD52 and its paralog RAD59 define a small family of proteins thus far represented in fungi, vertebrates and the early-branching ameboid eukaryote, Entamoeba histolytica.
Plant molecular biologist Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy) explains that molecular phylogeny and morphological studies suggest that diatoms originated ‘probably as the result of a eukaryote being invaded or engulfed by a photosynthetic eukaryote, most probably a red alga’.
Three individual proteins showed significant bootstrap support for a Rickettsia -eukaryote cluster in four-taxon analyses (rooted with an archaebacterium) whereas four proteins significantly supported a Rickettsia-Escherichia cluster that excluded the eukaryote.