| Bigelowiella natans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Phylum: | Cercozoa |
| Class: | Chlorarachniophyceae |
| Order: | Chlorarachniales |
| Family: | Chlorarachniaceae |
| Genus: | Bigelowiella |
| Species: | B. natans |
| Binomial name | |
| Bigelowiella natans Moestrup, 2001 | |
Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.
Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.
Genomes
The Bigelowiella natans genome was the first rhizarian nuclear genome to be sequenced. The genome contains 94.7 Mbp encoding for 21,708 genes.
References
- ^ Hopkins, Julia F.; Spencer, David F.; Laboissiere, Sylvie; Neilson, Jonathan A.D.; Eveleigh, Robert J.M.; Durnford, Dion G.; Gray, Michael W.; Archibald, John M. (2012). "Proteomics Reveals Plastid- and Periplastid-Targeted Proteins in the Chlorarachniophyte Alga Bigelowiella natans". Genome Biology and Evolution. 4 (12): 1391–1406. doi:10.1093/gbe/evs115. PMC 3542566. PMID 23221610.
- 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. Bibcode:2012Natur.492...59C. doi:10.1038/nature11681. PMID 23201678.
- "Bigelowiella natans". ensembl.org.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Bigelowiella natans | |