Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri.

E Prochnik, Simon; Umen, James; M Nedelcu, Aurora; Hallmann, Armin; M Miller, Stephen; Nishii, Ichiro; Ferris, Patrick; Kuo, Alan; Mitros, Therese; K Fritz-Laylin, Lillian; Hellsten, Uffe; Chapman, Jarrod; Simakov, Oleg; A Rensing, Stefan; Terry, Astrid; Pangilinan, Jasmyn; Kapitonov, Vladimir; Jurka, Jerzy; Salamov, Asaf; Shapiro, Harris; Schmutz, Jeremy; Grimwood, Jane; Lindquist, Erika; Lucas, Susan; V Grigoriev, Igor; Schmitt, Rüdiger; Kirk, David; S Rokhsar, Daniel

doi:10.1126/science.1188800

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Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri.

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Simon E Prochnik

James Umen

Aurora M Nedelcu

Abstract

The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri and its morphologically diverse close relatives (the volvocine algae) are well suited for the investigation of the evolution of multicellularity and development. We sequenced the 138-mega-base pair genome of V. carteri and compared its approximately 14,500...

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