Gene Sequencing
Phaeodactylum tricornutum is one of two diatoms to have its genome sequenced (the other being Thalassiosira pseudonana). The genome contains approximately 10% prokaryote like genes, a unusually large proportion. Over 30000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have been organized into the Diatom EST Database.
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