Abstract
The green unicellular flagellated alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has emerged as an attractive model system because of its small size, fast growth, and short sexual cycle. It is amenable to both forward, and reverse genetic analysis and efficient transformation methods for the nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial compartments have been established. Its nuclear, chloroplast, and mitochondrial genomes have been entirely sequenced. This alga is ideally suited for fundamental biological research, in particular in photosynthesis, starch metabolism, organelle biogenesis, flagellar assembly and function, cell growth, gametogenesis and cell mating, adaptation to changing environmental conditions, phototaxis, and circadian rhythms. Moreover, C. reinhardtii also appears to be very promising for research on biofuel production.
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