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+[[!meta title="Gene functionalities and genome structure in Bathycoccus prasinos reflect cellular specializations at the base of the green lineage."]]
+[[!tag genome chromosome repeats]]
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+Moreau H, Verhelst B, Couloux A, Derelle E, Rombauts S, Grimsley N, Van Bel M, Poulain J, Katinka M, Hohmann-Marriott MF, Piganeau G, Rouzé P, Da Silva C, Wincker P, Van de Peer Y, Vandepoele K.
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+Genome Biol. 2012 Aug 24;13(8):R74. doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-8-r74
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+Gene functionalities and genome structure in Bathycoccus prasinos reflect cellular specializations at the base of the green lineage.
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+[[!pmid 22925495 desc="7,847 genes, no transposons. Two “outlier” chromosomes are found with lower GC content, like in _Ostreococcus_ and _Micromonas_. Genes in the big outlier chromosomes have a high number of small AT-rich introns with no apparent conserved motifs."]]
Two (out of 20) chromosomes in the genome of the unicellular green alga
_Ostreococcus tauri_ have a markedly different GC and transposable element
-content compared to the others. [[Derelle et al., 2003|biblio/16868079]].
+content compared to the others. [[Derelle and coll., 2003|biblio/16868079]].
+The same phenomeon has then been reported in _Bathycoccus prasinos_ ([[Moreau
+and coll., 2012|biblio/22925495]]) and other species.
Chr4 in _Polypedilum vanderplanki_ has lower GC content than the others
([[Yoshida et al., 2022|biblio/35387384]]), and it has been speculated that it