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About Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga from the phylum Chlorophyta, which diverged from land plants over a billion years ago. C. reinhardtii is a model species for studying a broad range of fundamental biological processes including the evolution of chloroplast-based phytosysnthesis and the structure of eukaryotic flagella. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is haploid, and has a nuclear genome comprising 17 chromosomes with a total size of approx. 120 Mb, a 203 kb chloroplast genome and a ~16 kb mitochondrial genome.

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Annotation

The genome annotation for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been derived from annotation submitted to the ENA/Genbank/DDBJ databases; and enhanced by importing data from additional sources, principally UniProtKB and GOA. The archive records in turn reflect submissions from the JGI Chlamydomonas sequencing project. The non-coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997) , RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

References

• The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions.PubMed ID: 17932292; Science. 2007 Oct 12;318(5848):245-50.
• European Nucleotide Archive:ABCN00000000
• European Nucleotide Archive:BK000554
• European Nucleotide Archive:U03843