| Value |
69.2
kbp
|
| Organism |
Chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans |
| Reference |
Rogers MB, Gilson PR, Su V, McFadden GI, Keeling PJ. The complete chloroplast genome of the chlorarachniophyte Bigelowiella natans: evidence for independent origins of chlorarachniophyte and euglenid secondary endosymbionts. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Jan24(1):54-62. abstract and p.56 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID16990439
|
| Method |
PCR |
| Comments |
Unlike
the vast majority of cercozoans, chlorarachniophytes
are photosynthetic, having acquired a plastid by secondary
endosymbiosis of a green alga. The secondary endosymbiont
of chlorarachniophytes is also noteworthy because it
has retained its nucleus and genome in a highly reduced form
known as a nucleomorph. The B. natans chloroplast genome maps as a circle of
69,166 bp. Note-for smaller non-photosynthetic plastid genomes see fig. 3 p. 58 |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
105425 |