Overview

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a single celled chlorophyte. These green algae are highly adaptable and live in many different environments throughout the world. Normally C. reinhardtii derives energy from photosynthesis, but when provided with an alternative carbon source, it can also thrive in total darkness.

Its impressive adaptability and quick generation time has made Chlamydomonas an important model for biological research. Over the years, studies of Chlamydomonas have provided major research contributions in the areas of photosynthesis, ciliary diseases and molecular biology.(from JGI - The Joint Genome Institute).

Statistics

This release of Phytozome includes the Augustus update 9 (u9) annotation of JGI assembly v4.

Genome

Approximately 112Mb arranged in 17 linkage groups and 61 additional scaffolds, with an L50 of 6.6Mb.

Loci

15,935 loci containing protein-coding transcripts

Transcripts

15,935 protein-coding transcripts