User:Sdittami/Ectocarpus siliculosus

Sdittami/Ectocarpus siliculosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Chromalveolata
Division:	Heterokontophyta
Class:	Phaeophyceae
Order:	Ectocarpales
Family:	Ectocarpaceae
Genus:	Ectocarpus
Binomial name
	Ectocarpus siliculosus; (Dillwyn) Lyngbye 1819

''Ectocarpus siliculosus'' is a cosmopolitan, filamentous brown alga (Heterokontophyta)^[1]. Its genome, although not publicly available yet, was the first brown algal genome to be sequenced, making E. siliculosus a genetic and genomic model for brown algae^[2].

References

^ Charrier B, Coelho SM, Le Bail A, Tonon T, Michel G, Potin P, Kloareg B, Boyen C, Peters AF, Cock JM (2008). Development and physiology of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus: two centuries of research. New Phytol. 177(2):319-332 PMID: 18181960
^ Genoscope - Ectocarpus genome project

External links

E. siliculosus on algaebase.org

[[Category:Brown algae]]

[1] Charrier B, Coelho SM, Le Bail A, Tonon T, Michel G, Potin P, Kloareg B, Boyen C, Peters AF, Cock JM (2008). Development and physiology of the brown alga Ectocarpus siliculosus: two centuries of research. New Phytol. 177(2):319-332 PMID: 18181960

[2] Genoscope - Ectocarpus genome project

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