Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri
- Prochnik, S. E.
- Umen, J.
- Nedelcu, A. M.
- Hallmann, Armin
- Miller, S. M.
- Nishii, I.
- Ferris, P.
- Kuo, A.
- Mitros, T.
- Fritz-Laylin, L. K.
- Hellsten, U.
- Chapman, J.
- Simakov, O.
- Rensing, S. A.
- Terry, A.
- Pangilinan, J.
- Kapitonov, V.
- Jurka, J.
- Salamov, A.
- Shapiro, H.
- Schmutz, J.
- Grimwood, J.
- Lindquist, E.
- Lucas, S.
- Grigoriev, I. V.
- Schmitt, R.
- Kirk, D.
- Rokhsar, D. S.
DOIAbstract
Prochnik SE, Umen J, Nedelcu AM, et al. Genomic analysis of organismal complexity in the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri. Science. 2010;329(5988):223-226.The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri and its morphologically diverse close relatives (the volvocine algae) are well suited for the investigation of the evolution of multicellularity and development. We sequenced the 138-mega-base pair genome of V. carteri and compared its approximately 14,500 predicted proteins to those of its unicellular relative Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Despite fundamental differences in organismal complexity and life history, the two species have similar protein-coding potentials and few species-specific protein-coding gene predictions. Volvox is enrich...
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