Bigelowiella natans
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota
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Phylum: | |
Class: | Chlorarachniophyceae
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Order: | Chlorarachniales
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Family: | Chlorarachniaceae
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Genus: | Bigelowiella
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Species: | B. natans
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Binomial name | |
Bigelowiella natans Moestrup, 2001
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Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.[1]
Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.[1]
Genomes[]
The Bigelowiella natans genome was the first rhizarian nuclear genome to be sequenced. The genome contains 94.7 Mbp encoding for 21,708 genes.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Bigelowiella natans". ensembl.org.
Categories:
- Filosa
- Model organisms
- Species described in 2001