Genome Size of Cyanobacteria

Genome Size of Cyanobacteria

The genome sizes of 128 strains of cyanobacteria, representative of all major taxonomic groups, lie in the range 1.6 x lo9 to 8.6 x lo9 daltons. The majority of unicellular cyanobacteria contain genomes of 1.6 x lo9 to 2-7 x lo9 daltons, comparable in size to those of other bacteria, whereas most pleurocapsalean and filamentous strains possess larger genomes. The genome sizes are discontinuousl...

Genome Analysis of Cyanobacteria

CyanoBase: the cyanobacteria genome database update 2010

CyanoBase (http://genome.kazusa.or.jp/cyanobase) is the genome database for cyanobacteria, which are model organisms for photosynthesis. The database houses cyanobacteria species information, complete genome sequences, genome-scale experiment data, gene information, gene annotations and mutant information. In this version, we updated these datasets and improved the navigation and the visual dis...

Genome size

Materials and Methods Genome Size The haploid genome size (C-value, in pg) of 1461 ray-finned fish species (Actinopterygii) was downloaded from the Animal Genome Size Database (www.genomesize.com). Unless otherwise stated, comparisons of genome sizes are performed on the C-values, which can be converted to number of base pairs by the following: number of base pairs = C-value × 0.978 × 109. Seve...

Database tool CyanoClust: comparative genome resources of cyanobacteria and plastids

Cyanobacteria, which perform oxygen-evolving photosynthesis as do chloroplasts of plants and algae, are one of the best-studied prokaryotic phyla and one from which many representative genomes have been sequenced. Lack of a suitable comparative genomic database has been a problem in cyanobacterial genomics because many proteins involved in physiological functions such as photosynthesis and nitr...