''Bathycoccus prasinos'' is a picoplankton belonging to the order
Mamiellales, along with ''
Ostreococcus'' and ''
Micromonas''. The cells are around 1-2 μm in length, are non-motile and are covered in scales.
Genome
The small
genome (15 Mb) was recently sequenced
and many of the genes are related to plants, though there is significant
horizontal gene transfer from other
eukaryote
Eukaryotes () are organisms whose cells have a nucleus. All animals, plants, fungi, and many unicellular organisms, are Eukaryotes. They belong to the group of organisms Eukaryota or Eukarya, which is one of the three domains of life. Bacte ...
s. There are 19 chromosomes, two of which have a significantly different
GC-content
In molecular biology and genetics, GC-content (or guanine-cytosine content) is the percentage of nitrogenous bases in a DNA or RNA molecule that are either guanine (G) or cytosine (C). This measure indicates the proportion of G and C bases out o ...
.
References
External links
AlgaeBase
Mamiellophyceae
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