The Draft Genome of the Centric Diatom Conticribra weissflogii (Coscinodiscophyceae, Ochrophyta)

Linzhou Li; Hongli Wang; Sibo Wang; Yan Xu; Hongping Liang; Huan Liu; Eva C Sonnenschein

doi:10.1016/j.protis.2021.125845

The Draft Genome of the Centric Diatom Conticribra weissflogii (Coscinodiscophyceae, Ochrophyta)

Protist. 2021 Oct-Dec;172(5-6):125845. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2021.125845. Epub 2021 Nov 16.

Authors

Linzhou Li¹, Hongli Wang², Sibo Wang³, Yan Xu², Hongping Liang², Huan Liu³, Eva C Sonnenschein⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 221, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark; State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
² State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China; College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
⁴ Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads 221, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark. Electronic address: evaso@bio.dtu.dk.

PMID: 34916152
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2021.125845

Abstract

Here, we present a 231 Mb draft genome of the centric diatom Conticribra weissflogii CCMP1336. Comparative genomics of C. weissflogii and other Ochrophyta support the existence of unique carbon-concentrating mechanisms and chitin metabolic processes in diatoms. The whole-genome project is available at CNSA (https://db.cngb.org/search/project/CNP0001903/).

Keywords: Diatom; carbon-concentrating mechanism; chitin synthases; genomics; photosynthesis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Diatoms* / genetics
Genome

Substances

Carbon Dioxide
Carbon