Trypanosoma cruzi strain and starvation-driven mitochondrial RNA editing and transcriptome variability

Trypanosoma cruzi strain Sylvio X/10 remodels its mitochondrial gene expression upon starvation. Relative mitochondrial mRNA abundances derived from total reads obtained in three feeding conditions: Fed, Abrupt starvation, and Slow starvation. Mitochondrial transcripts are ordered based on their order on the maxicircle, regardless of orientation. The inset shows the transcripts of lowest abundance, never-edited transcripts and MURF2, on a log-scale Y-axis. Abundances are shown for strains Sylvio X/10 (A) and CL Brener (B).