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Diatom genomes come of age

Assaf Vardi, Kimberlee Thamatrakoln, Kay D Bidle and Paul G Falkowski email

Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08540, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:245doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-245

Published: 9 January 2009

Subject areas: Evolution, Biochemistry and structural biology, Cell biology, Genome studies

Abstract

The results of two published genome sequences from marine diatoms provide basic insights into how these remarkable organisms evolved to become one of the most successful groups of eukaryotic algae in the contemporary ocean.


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