Authors
Chris Bowler, Andrew E Allen, Jonathan H Badger, Jane Grimwood, Kamel Jabbari, Alan Kuo, Uma Maheswari, Cindy Martens, Florian Maumus, Robert P Otillar, Edda Rayko, Asaf Salamov, Klaas Vandepoele, Bank Beszteri, Ansgar Gruber, Marc Heijde, Michael Katinka, Thomas Mock, Klaus Valentin, Fréderic Verret, John A Berges, Colin Brownlee, Jean-Paul Cadoret, Anthony Chiovitti, Chang Jae Choi, Sacha Coesel, Alessandra De Martino, J Chris Detter, Colleen Durkin, Angela Falciatore, Jérome Fournet, Miyoshi Haruta, Marie JJ Huysman, Bethany D Jenkins, Katerina Jiroutova, Richard E Jorgensen, Yolaine Joubert, Aaron Kaplan, Nils Kröger, Peter G Kroth, Julie La Roche, Erica Lindquist, Markus Lommer, Véronique Martin–Jézéquel, Pascal J Lopez, Susan Lucas, Manuela Mangogna, Karen McGinnis, Linda K Medlin, Anton Montsant, Marie-Pierre Oudot–Le Secq, Carolyn Napoli, Miroslav Obornik, Micaela Schnitzler Parker, Jean-Louis Petit, Betina M Porcel, Nicole Poulsen, Matthew Robison, Leszek Rychlewski, Tatiana A Rynearson, Jeremy Schmutz, Harris Shapiro, Magali Siaut, Michele Stanley, Michael R Sussman, Alison R Taylor, Assaf Vardi, Peter Von Dassow, Wim Vyverman, Anusuya Willis, Lucjan S Wyrwicz, Daniel S Rokhsar, Jean Weissenbach, E Virginia Armbrust, Beverley R Green, Yves Van de Peer, Igor V Grigoriev
Publication date
2008/11/13
Journal
Nature
Volume
456
Issue
7219
Pages
239-244
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Diatoms are photosynthetic secondary endosymbionts found throughout marine and freshwater environments, and are believed to be responsible for around one-fifth of the primary productivity on Earth,. The genome sequence of the marine centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana was recently reported, revealing a wealth of information about diatom biology,,. Here we report the complete genome sequence of the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum and compare it with that of T. pseudonana to clarify evolutionary origins, functional significance and ubiquity of these features throughout diatoms. In spite of the fact that the pennate and centric lineages have only been diverging for 90 million years, their genome structures are dramatically different and a substantial fraction of genes (∼40%) are not shared by these representatives of the two lineages. Analysis of molecular divergence compared with yeasts and …
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