SLC1A2 and hereditary elliptocytosis: As we can infer from Figure 2C, the GLT1 intein probably invaded the GLT1 gene before the divergence of Candida species from the clade 2 proposed by Diezmann et al. (2004), which includes C. guilliermondii, C. intermedia, C. famata and C. zeylanoides. Evidently this intein was lost in C. intermedia and C. zeylanoides, probably due to HE degeneration and genetic drift.