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Diatom genomes come of age
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* Corresponding author: Paul G Falkowski falko@marine.rutgers.edu
Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08540, USA
Genome Biology 2008, 9:245 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-12-245
Published: 9 January 2009Abstract
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.