“…As their counterparts in S. cerevisiae, the S. exiguus COX1 and COB genes exhibit a mosaic intronic structure, but the ai1, ai2, ai5K, ai5L, and ai5Q introns of COX1 [18] were not detected in S. exiguus. Similar observations have been reported for S. kluyveri and S. servazzii [12,16], suggesting a di¡erent organization of introns. Several intronic ORFs were also detected to be associated to COX1, COB and the 21S rRNA gene.…”