An improved genome of the model marine alga Ostreococcus tauri unfolds by assessing Illumina de novo assemblies

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Blanc Mathieu, Romain ^a,b   Verhelst, Bram ^c,d   Derelle, Evelyne ^a,b   Rombauts, Stephane ^c,d   Bouget, François Yves ^a,b   Carré, Isabelle ^e   Château, Annie ^f   Eyre Walker, Adam ^g   Grimsley, Nigel ^a,b   Moreau, Hervé ^a,b   Piégu, Benoit ^h   Rivals, Eric ^f   Schackwitz, Wendy ⁱ   Van de Peer, Yves ^c,d,j   Piganeau, Gwenaël ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^h CEMAGREF   (France)

ⁱ DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

Correctness of short reads assembly; Domestication of microalgae; Genome evolution; Illumina re sequencing; Ostreococcus tauri; Picoeukaryote; Plant glutamate receptor

Indexed keywords

DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GREEN ALGA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; COCCOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; OSTREOCOCCUS TAURI;

CHLOROPHYTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84925823425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1103     Document Type: Article

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