Detection of Introns in Eukaryotic Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences

Table 5

Taxonomy and location of described introns.

Number of Introns	Cell Location	Clade
33	chloro-SSU	Viridiplantae
2	mito-LSU	Fungi
7	mito-LSU	Viridiplantae
1	mito-LSU	Stramenopiles
40	mito-SSU	Fungi
1	mito-SSU	Haptophyceae
1	mito-SSU	Ichthyosporea
7	mito-SSU	Viridiplantae
9	Nuclear	Alveolata
253	Nuclear	Amoebozoa
1	Nuclear	Euglenozoa
1928	Nuclear	Fungi
24	Nuclear	Heterolobosea
1	Nuclear	Metazoa
10	Nuclear	Rhizaria
338	Nuclear	Rhodophyta
968	Nuclear	Viridiplantae
13	Nuclear	Stramenopiles