Research Article Cell Biology International 10.1002/cbin.11001 Genome-wide identification, phylogenetic classification, and exon-intron structure characterisation of the tubulin and actin genes in flax (Linum usitatissimum) Nikolay Pydiura 1* , Yaroslav Pirko 1 , Dmitry Galinousky 2 , Anastasiia Postovoitova 1 , Alla Yemets 1 , Aleksandr Kilchevsky 2 , Yaroslav Blume 1 1 Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Osipovskogo St. 2a, 04123, Ukraine 2 Institute of Genetics and Cytology, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Akademicheskaya st., 27, 220072, Belarus *Corresponding author e-mail:pydiura@gmail.com Short running title: In silico analysis of tubulin and actin genes in flax Keywords flax, genome, tubulin, actin, genes Abbreviations UTR, Untranslated Region of a gene; IME, Intron-Mediated Enhancement of the gene expression; CDS, Coding Sequence, the coding region of a gene; Lus, Linum usitatissimum; SAP, single amino acid polymorphism; bp, base pairs, aa, amino acids. † This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: [10.1002/cbin.11001] This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved Received: 20 June 2017; Revised: 24 May 2018; Accepted: 31 May 2018