Bigelowiella

Bigelowiella are Chlorarachniophyte alga, containing a secondary plastid within a reduced cytoplasmic compartment that contains a vestigial nucleomorph.

Genomes

The Bigelowiella natans nuclear genome was the first to be sequenced from a rhizarian protist, containing 94.7 Mbp encoding 21,708 genes.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs
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