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Ostreococcus



Ostreococcus

Transmission electron microscopy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Prasinophyceae
Order: Mamiellales
Genus: Ostreococcus
C. Courties & M.-J. Chrétiennot-Dinet (1995)
Species
  • O. tauri

Ostreococcus is a genus of unicellular coccoid green alga belonging to the class Prasinophyceae. It was discovered in 1994 in the Thau lagoon by Courties[1] and has been since been found in many oceanic regions. It is the smallest known free-living eukaryote with an average size of 0.8 µm. Its genome sequence was published in 2006[2].

References

Cited references

  1. ^ Courties, C. et al. (1994). Smallest eukaryotic organism. Nature 370: 255.
  2. ^ Derelle, E. et al. (2006). Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103: 11647-52.
 
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