Clamydomonas

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a single-celled green alga(Algae) found in temperate soil habitats (Figure 1). It has proven to be such a powerful model for dissecting fundamental processes in biology that investigators have dubbed it the 'green yeast' (Goodenough, 1992; Rochaix, 1995). Ehrenberg described the genus Chlamydomonas in 1833, and Dangeard the species C. reinhardtii in 1888 (Harris et al., 2009). Chlamydomonas was found suitable for genetic studies in the early 20th century (Harris, 2001), while the development of C. reinhardtii as a model organism dates to the 1950s when the first mutants were generated (Harris, 2009). Figure 1. Image

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Clhlamyfomonas