Title |
Analysis of EST data of the marine protist Oxyrrhis marina, an emerging model for alveolate biology and evolution
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, February 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-122 |
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Authors |
Renny Lee, Hugo Lai, Shehre Banoo Malik, Juan F Saldarriaga, Patrick J Keeling, Claudio H Slamovits |
Abstract |
The alveolates include a large number of important lineages of protists and algae, among which are three major eukaryotic groups: ciliates, apicomplexans and dinoflagellates. Collectively alveolates are present in virtually every environment and include a vast diversity of cell shapes, molecular and cellular features and feeding modes including lifestyles such as phototrophy, phagotrophy/predation and intracellular parasitism, in addition to a variety of symbiotic associations. Oxyrrhis marina is a well-known model for heterotrophic protist biology, and is now emerging as a useful organism to explore the many changes that occurred during the origin and diversification of dinoflagellates by virtue of its phylogenetic position at the base of the dinoflagellate tree. |
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