Ostreococcus C. Courties & M.-J. Chrétiennot-Dinet (1995)
Species
Ostreococcus tauri
Ostreococcus mediterraneus
Ostreococcus lucimarinus
Ostreococcus is a genus of unicellular coccoid or spherically shaped green algae belonging to the class Mamiellophyceae. It includes prominent members of the global picoplankton community, which plays a central role in the oceanic carbon cycle.
Ostreococcus tauri is a unicellular species of marine green alga about 0.8 micrometres (μm) in diameter, the smallest free-living (non-symbiotic) eukaryote...
with organic body scales; others are naked. Well studied genera include Ostreococcus, considered to be the smallest (ca. 0.95 μm) free-living eukaryote, and...
Pandoraviridae, the previous largest-known viruses, and is larger than Ostreococcus, the smallest eukaryotic cell, although Pandoravirus has the largest...
Prasinophyte algae of the genus Ostreococcus are the smallest free-living eukaryote. The single cell of an Ostreococcus measures 800 nm (0.00080 mm) across...
lagoon in France of the smallest photosynthetic eukaryote known to date, Ostreococcus tauri, by Courties. 2001: Through sequencing of the ribosomal RNA gene...
prasinos is a picoplankton belonging to the order Mamiellales, along with Ostreococcus and Micromonas. The cells are around 1–2 μm in length, are non-motile...
Eukaryotes including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the algae Ostreococcus tauri also use Coenzyme FO. F420 is structurally similar to FMN, but...
prasinoviruses include members from the genera Ostreococcus and Micromonas. Three potential species of Ostreococcus have been identified and differ based on...
"Grazing impact of different heterotrophic nanoflagellates on eukaryotic (Ostreococcus tauri) and prokaryotic picoautotrophs (Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus)"...
isoleucine in the LOV1 domain of a novel phototropin from the marine alga Ostreococcus tauri modulates the dark state recovery of the domain". Biochim Biophys...
cassava cDNAs and participated in the sequencing of the unicellular alga Ostreococcus tauri. Among the genes characterized and discovered in his laboratory...
heterotrophic, and usually contain a minimal number of organelles. For example, Ostreococcus tauri, an autotrophic picoeukaryote belonging to the class Prasinophyceae...
pigment called Chl cCS-170 can be found in some strains of Micromonas and Ostreococcus living in deeper part of the ocean, which may indicate a potential adaptation...
transcription and translation in both mammalian red blood cells and algae Ostreococcus tauri cells; this system has been seen to be conserved in many organisms...
homolog of ELF3 has been found in either Chlamydomonas reinhardtii or Ostreococcus tauri, two representative species of green algae, the organisms that...
S; Lin, YC; Follows, MJ; Worden, AZ (2017). "Co-existence of distinct Ostreococcus ecotypes at an oceanic front". Limnology and Oceanography. 62 (1): 75–88...
(April 2007). "The complete chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA sequence of Ostreococcus tauri: organelle genomes of the smallest eukaryote are examples of compaction"...
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