Phylogenetic Placement of diatom genera using whole mitochondrial genomes

dc.contributor.authorAdams, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-01T17:26:44Z
dc.date.available2021-09-01T17:26:44Z
dc.date.created2021
dc.description2021 Celebration of Student Research and Creativity presentationen_US
dc.description.abstract"Diatoms are a diverse group of single-cell eukaryotic algae with cell walls made of silica. These algae can occupy a variety of aquatic niches and play significant roles in carbon and oxygen cycling. Previous attempts at understanding the evolutionary history of diatoms have presented conflicting results. In this study, we have focused on the mitochondria of diatoms and have described 14 diatom mitochondrial genomes to explore the utility of these genomes in phylogenetics. The phylogenetic reconstruction based on protein coding regions of the diatom mitochondria resolved similar patterns evidenced by using chloroplast. However, discrepancies still exist between the two, demonstrating the need for further sampling. Our study also investigates the gene organization among these genomes to identify patterns across species and found that closely related species seem to have a conserved gene order."en_US
dc.description.urihttps://youtu.be/CrOLostXWqIen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11216/3954
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNorthern Kentucky Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCelebration of Student Research and Creativity;2021
dc.subjectDiatomsen_US
dc.subjectEukaryotic cellsen_US
dc.subjectAlgae Phylogeny Molecular aspectsen_US
dc.titlePhylogenetic Placement of diatom genera using whole mitochondrial genomesen_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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