A genomic survey of the fish parasite Spironucleus salmonicida indicates genomic plasticity among diplomonads and significant lateral gene transfer in eukaryote genome evolution

Jan O Andersson¹ , Åsa M Sjögren^2,6 , David S Horner^3,7 , Colleen A Murphy⁴ , Patricia L Dyal³ , Staffan G Svärd¹ , John M Logsdon Jr⁵ , Mark A Ragan^4,8 , Robert P Hirt^3,9 and Andrew J Roger²

¹  Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Center, Uppsala, Sweden

²  The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

³  Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

⁴  Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

⁵  Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

⁶  Department of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

⁷  Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolare e Biotecnologie, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

⁸  ARC Centre in Bioinformatics, and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

⁹  School of Biology, The Devonshire building, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK