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SUBMITTER: Di Dato V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520147 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Dato Valeria V Orefice Ida I Amato Alberto A Fontanarosa Carolina C Amoresano Angela A Cutignano Adele A Ianora Adrianna A Romano Giovanna G
The ISME journal 20170328 7
Diatoms are among the most successful primary producers in ocean and freshwater environments. Deriving from a secondary endosymbiotic event, diatoms have a mixed genome containing bacterial, animal and plant genes encoding for metabolic pathways that may account for their evolutionary success. Studying the transcriptomes of two strains of the diatom Skeletonema marinoi, we report, for the first time in microalgae, an active animal-like prostaglandin pathway that is differentially expressed in th ...[more]