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About Thalassiosira pseudonana CCMP1335
Thalassiosira pseudonana is a species of marine centric Bulka diatoms. It was chosen as the first eukaryotic marine phytoplankton for whole genome sequencing. T. pseudonana was selected for this study because it is a model for diatom physiology studies, belongs to a genus widely distributed throughout the world's oceans, and has a relatively small genome at 34 mega base pairs. Scientists are researching on diatom light absorption, using the marine diatom of Thalassiosira. The diatom requires a high enough concentration of CO2 in order to utilize C4 metabolism (Clement et al. 2015).
Taxonomy ID 296543 (Text from Wikipedia.) Picture credit: (Image source)
More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia
Taxonomy ID 296543
Data source JGI
Comparative genomics
What can I find? Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species.
More about comparative analyses
Phylogenetic overview of gene families
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Variation
This species currently has no variation database. However you can process your own variants using the Variant Effect Predictor:
Other Data
T. pseudonana ESTs were sequenced from 7 different cDNA libraries. These ESTs were aligned to the genome using exonerate.