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Bigelowiella natans
Species of single-celled organism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.[1]
Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.[1]
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Genomes
The Bigelowiella natans genome was the first rhizarian nuclear genome to be sequenced. The genome contains 94.7 Mbp encoding for 21,708 genes.[2][3]
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