Bigelowiella natans

Bigelowiella natans
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Rhizaria
(unranked): Cercozoa
(unranked): Chlorarachniophyceae
Genus: Bigelowiella
Species: B. natans
Binomial name
Bigelowiella natans'

Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.[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. "Proteomics Reveals Plastid- and Periplastid-Targeted Proteins in the Chlorarachniophyte Alga Bigelowiella natans". Genome Biology and Evolution 4 (12): 1391–1406. 2012. doi:10.1093/gbe/evs115.
  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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