The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism

EV Armbrust, JA Berges, C Bowler, BR Green… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Diatoms are unicellular algae with plastids acquired by secondary endosymbiosis. They are
responsible for∼ 20% of global carbon fixation. We report the 34 million–base pair draft …

The Phaeodactylum genome reveals the evolutionary history of diatom genomes

C Bowler, AE Allen, JH Badger, J Grimwood, K Jabbari… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Diatoms are photosynthetic secondary endosymbionts found throughout marine and
freshwater environments, and are believed to be responsible for around one-fifth of the …

Oceanographic and biogeochemical insights from diatom genomes

C Bowler, A Vardi, AE Allen - Annual review of marine science, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Diatoms are the most successful group of eukaryotic phytoplankton in the modern ocean
and have risen to dominance relatively quickly over the last 100 million years. Recently …

Identification And Comparative Genomic Analysis Of Signaling And Regulatory Components In The Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana 1

A Montsant, AE Allen, S Coesel, AD Martino… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Diatoms are unicellular brown algae that likely arose from the endocytobiosis of a red alga
into a single‐celled heterotroph and that constitute an algal class of major importance in …

A Model for Carbohydrate Metabolism in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum Deduced from Comparative Whole Genome Analysis

PG Kroth, A Chiovitti, A Gruber, V Martin-Jezequel… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Diatoms are unicellular algae responsible for approximately 20% of global
carbon fixation. Their evolution by secondary endocytobiosis resulted in a complex cellular …

Genomic footprints of a cryptic plastid endosymbiosis in diatoms

A Moustafa, B Beszteri, UG Maier, C Bowler, K Valentin… - science, 2009 - science.org
Diatoms and other chromalveolates are among the dominant phytoplankters in the world's
oceans. Endosymbiosis was essential to the success of chromalveolates, and it appears that …

Genome Properties of the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

S Scala, N Carels, A Falciatore, ML Chiusano… - Plant …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Diatoms are a ubiquitous class of microalgae of extreme importance for global primary
productivity and for the biogeochemical cycling of minerals such as silica. However, very …

The regulation of carbon and nutrient assimilation in diatoms is significantly different from green algae

C Wilhelm, C Büchel, J Fisahn, R Goss, T Jakob… - Protist, 2006 - Elsevier
Diatoms are the major players in the biochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,
and silicon with a strong impact on global climate not only in the ocean but also in the …

An ecological and evolutionary context for integrated nitrogen metabolism and related signaling pathways in marine diatoms

AE Allen, A Vardi, C Bowler - Current opinion in plant biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Whole-genome sequence analysis has revealed that diatoms contain genes and pathways
that are novel in photosynthetic eukaryotes. More generally, the unique evolutionary …

Digital expression profiling of novel diatom transcripts provides insight into their biological functions

U Maheswari, K Jabbari, JL Petit, BM Porcel, AE Allen… - Genome biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Diatoms represent the predominant group of eukaryotic phytoplankton in the
oceans and are responsible for around 20% of global photosynthesis. Two whole genome …