@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref18985,
author = {Taylor L Weiss and J S Johnston and Kazuhiro Fujisawa and Shigeru Okada and Tim P Devarenne},
title = {Genome size and phylogenetic analysis of the A and L races of Botryococcus braunii},
year = {2010},
keywords = {18S rRNA sequences, Botryococcus braunii, genome size, green algae, hydrocarbons, phylogenetic analysis},
doi = {},
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journal = {Journal of Applied Phycology},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {Botryococcus braunii is a colony forming green microalga that produces large amounts of liquid hydrocarbons, which can be converted into transportation fuels. There are three different races of B. braunii, A, B, and L, that are distinguished based on the type of hydrocarbon each produces. Each race also has many strains that are distinguished by their location of identification. While B. braunii has been well studied for the chemistry of the hydrocarbon production, very little is known about B. braunii from a molecular aspect. To begin to address this problem, we determined the genome size of the A race, Yamanaka strain, and the L race, Songkla Nakarin strain of B. braunii. Flow cytometry analysis indicates that the A race of B. braunii has a genome size of 167.0 +/- 0.4 Mb, while the L race has a significantly larger genome size at 211.3 +/- 1.7 Mb. We also used phylogenetic analysis with the nuclear small subunit (18S) rRNA gene to classify strains of the A and B race that have not yet been evolutionarily compared to previously published B. braunii phylogenetics. The analysis suggests that B. braunii races are evolutionarily related based on the type of liquid hydrocarbon they produce.}
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Citation title: "Genome size and phylogenetic analysis of the A and L races of Botryococcus braunii".
