Bigelowiella natans

Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.[1]

Bigelowiella natans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
(unranked):
Phylum:
Class:
Chlorarachniophyceae
Order:
Chlorarachniales
Family:
Chlorarachniaceae
Genus:
Species:
B. natans
Binomial name
Bigelowiella natans
Moestrup, 2001

Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic region. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.[1]

Genomes

The Bigelowiella natans was the first rhizarian nuclear genome to be sequenced. The genome has 94.7 Mbp encoding for 21,708 genes.[2][3]

References

  1. Hopkins, Julia F.; Spencer, David F.; Laboissiere, Sylvie; Neilson, Jonathan A.D.; Eveleigh, Robert J.M.; Durnford, Dion G.; Gray, Michael W.; Archibald, John M. (2012). "Proteomics Reveals Plastid- and Periplastid-Targeted Proteins in the Chlorarachniophyte Alga Bigelowiella natans". Genome Biology and Evolution. 4 (12): 1391–1406. doi:10.1093/gbe/evs115. PMC 3542566. PMID 23221610.
  2. Curtis, Bruce A.; Tanifuji, Goro; Burki, Fabien; et al. (2012). "Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs". Nature. 492 (7427): 59–65. doi:10.1038/nature11681. PMID 23201678.
  3. "Bigelowiella natans". ensembl.org.
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