Miniature Genome in the Marine Chordate Oikopleura dioica

• DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5551.2506
• Publication Date: 2002-07-27T09:47:15Z
• Authors: Hee-Chan Seo; Michael Kube; Rolf B. Edvardsen; Marit F. Jensen; Alfred Beck; Endy Spriet; Gabriel Gorsky; Eric M. Thompson; Hans Lehrach; Richard Reinhardt; Daniel Chourrout
• Keywords: Expressed Sequence Tags; Male; 0301 basic medicine; Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; DNA, Complementary; Genome; Sequence Analysis, DNA; [SDU.STU.OC] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Spermatozoa; Introns; Ciona intestinalis; 03 medical and health sciences; Genes; Animals; DNA, Intergenic; Urochordata; 14. Life underwater; Cloning, Molecular; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

Oikopleura dioica is a small pelagic chordate belonging to the class of larvaceans ([Fig. 1][1]A). Chordates include vertebrates, cephalochordates, and urochordates, and urochordates are divided into ascidians, thaliaceans, and larvaceans. Larvaceans may be derived from the most basal branch of