Comparative Genomics of the Pennate Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum1[w]

From: Plant Physiology | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Bowler, Chris; Jabbari, Kamel; Maheswari, Uma; Montsant, Anton | Copyright information

Diatoms are one of the most important constituents of phytoplankton communities in aquatic environments, but in spite of this, only recently have large-scale diatom-sequencing projects been undertaken. With the genome of the centric species Thalassiosira pseudonana available since mid-2004, accumulating sequence information for a pennate model species appears a natural subsequent aim. We have generated over 12,000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutu...

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