Cyanidioschyzon merolae is a small (2μm), club-shaped, unicellular haploid red alga adapted to high sulfur acidic hot spring environments (pH 1.5, 45 °C).[2][3] The cellular architecture of C. merolae is extremely simple, containing only a single chloroplast and a single mitochondrion and lacking a vacuole and cell wall.[4] In addition, the cellular and organelle divisions can be synchronized. For these reasons, C. merolae is considered an excellent model system for study of cellular and organelle division processes, as well as biochemistry and structural biology.[5][6][7] The organism's genome was the first full algal genome to be sequenced in 2004;[8] its plastid was sequenced in 2000 and 2003, and its mitochondrion in 1998.[9] The organism has been considered the simplest of eukaryotic cells for its minimalist cellular organization.[10]
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Cyanidioschyzon merolae is a small (2μm), club-shaped, unicellular haploid red alga adapted to high sulfur acidic hot spring environments (pH 1.5, 45 °C)...
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proteomes from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae, and the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. The diatom EST database...
related to that of land plants, making it useful for study. A red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae has also been used to study some basic chloroplast functions...
division comes from studying organisms like Arabidopsis and the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolæ. The division process starts when the proteins FtsZ1 and FtsZ2...
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reveals unusually simple genomic features in the hot-spring red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae". BMC Biology. 5: 28. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-5-28. PMC 1955436...
for the organism's polyextremophilic environment. By comparison to Cyanidioschyzon merolae – a unicellular thermoacidophilic red alga that is obligately...
sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae". DNA Research. 10 (2): 67–77. doi:10.1093/dnares/10.2.67....
Pinto, G.; Pollio, A. (2000). "The taxonomic position of Cyanidium, Cyanidioschyzon and Galdieria: an update". Hydrobiologia. 433 (1/3): 137–143. doi:10...
However, there seem to be some conserved aspects, e.g. in the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae, a mitochondrial FtsZ protein partially constricts the organelle...
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Pinto, G.; Pollio, A. (2000). "The taxonomic position of Cyanidium, Cyanidioschyzon and Galdieria: an update". Hydrobiologia. 433 (1/3): 137–143. doi:10...
sequence and analysis of the plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae". DNA Research. 10 (2): 67–77. doi:10.1093/dnares/10.2.67....