Chloroplast Genomics
Chloroplasts, organelles derived from once free-living cyanobacteria, are the power behind all photosynthetic eukaryotes, from diatoms to oak trees. We are sequencing the chloroplast genomes from 30 algal species to better understand the evolution of the non-chlorophyll b-containing photosynthetic lineage. Cedar McKay provides the bioinformatics for this project.
This project is a collaboration with Dr. Rose Ann Cattolico, UW Biology and Dr. Mike Jacobs at the UW Genome Center. Funding from NSF microbial genome program and Assembling the Tree of Life program.
The Stramenopile Chloroplast Genome Project
Relevant Publications
Cattolico, R.A. M. A. Jacobs, Y. Zhou, J. Chang, M. Duplessisi, T.
Lybrand, J. McKay, H.C. Ong, E. Sims, and G. Rocap. 2008. Chloroplast
genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCMP452 (West
Atlantic) and NIES 293 (West Pacific) strains BMC Genomics
doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-211 (pdf)
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