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SUBMITTER: von Dassow P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2784329 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
von Dassow Peter P Ogata Hiroyuki H Probert Ian I Wincker Patrick P Da Silva Corinne C Audic Stéphane S Claverie Jean-Michel JM de Vargas Colomban C
Genome biology 20091015 10
<h4>Background</h4>Eukaryotes are classified as either haplontic, diplontic, or haplo-diplontic, depending on which ploidy levels undergo mitotic cell division in the life cycle. Emiliania huxleyi is one of the most abundant phytoplankton species in the ocean, playing an important role in global carbon fluxes, and represents haptophytes, an enigmatic group of unicellular organisms that diverged early in eukaryotic evolution. This species is haplo-diplontic. Little is known about the haploid cell ...[more]