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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlamydomonas_reinhardtii_v5.5) ▼

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About Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga from the phylum Chlorophyta, which diverged from land plants over a billion years ago. C. reinhardtii is a model species for studying a broad range of fundamental biological processes including the evolution of chloroplast-based photosynthesis and the structure of eukaryotic flagella. It is haploid, and has a nuclear genome comprising 17 chromosomes with a total size of ~120 Mb.

Taxonomy ID 3055

Data source Joint Genome Institute

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Genome assembly: Chlamydomonas_reinhardtii_v5.5

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Gene annotation

What can I find? Protein-coding and non-coding genes, splice variants, cDNA and protein sequences, non-coding RNAs.

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Comparative genomics

What can I find? Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species.

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Variation

This species currently has no variation database. However you can process your own variants using the Variant Effect Predictor: