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Gerben van Ooijen1, Kirsten Knox1, Katalin Kis1, François-Yves Bouget2,3, Andrew J. Millar1
1SynthSys, University of Edinburgh, 2Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06, 3UMR 7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 06
This article describes genetic transformation of the unicellular marine alga Ostreococcus tauri by electroporation. This eukaryotic organism is an effective model platform for higher plants, possesing greatly reduced genomic and cellular complexity and being readily amenable to both cell culture and chemical biology.
Zeitschrift Für Naturforschung. Teil B: Chemie, Biochemie, Biophysik, Biologie. Jul, 1970 | Pubmed ID: 4394210