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Morphological and transcriptomic evidence for ammonium induction of sexual reproduction in Thalassiosira pseudonana and other centric diatoms.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Moore Eric R, Bullington Briana S, Weisberg Alexandra J, Jiang Yuan, Chang Jeff, Halsey Kimberly H
Abstract excerpt
The reproductive strategy of diatoms includes asexual and sexual phases, but in many species, including the model centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana, sexual reproduction has never been observed. Furthermore, the environmental factors that trigger sexual reproduction in diatoms are not understood. Although genome sequences of a few diatoms are available, little is known about the molecular basis for sexual...
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