Biology:Thalassiosirales
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| Order: | Thalassiosirales Glezer & Makarova, 1986
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Thalassiosirales is an order of centric diatoms. The order currently contains 471 species.[1] Species in the order Thalassiosirales are common in brackish, nearshore, and open-ocean habitats, with approximately the same number of freshwater and marine species.[2]
The Thalassiosirales species Thalassiosira pseudonana was chosen as the first eukaryotic marine phytoplankton for whole genome sequencing.[3] T. pseudonana was selected for this study because it is a model for diatom physiology studies, belongs to a genus widely distributed throughout the world's oceans, and has a relatively small genome at 34 mega base pairs. Scientists are researching on diatom light absorption, using the marine diatom Thalassiosira.
References
- ↑ "Taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase. http://www.algaebase.org/browse/taxonomy/?id=4465. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- ↑ Alverson, Andrew (2013). "Timing marine–freshwater transitions in the diatom order Thalassiosirales". Paleobiology 40 (1): 91–101. doi:10.1666/12055.
- ↑ Armbrust, E.; Berges, J.; Bowler, C.; Green, B.; Martinez, D.; Putnam, N.; Zhou, S.; Allen, A. et al. (2004). "The genome of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana: ecology, evolution, and metabolism". Science 306 (5693): 79–86. doi:10.1126/science.1101156. PMID 15459382. Bibcode: 2004Sci...306...79A.
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