Sentence examples for most compact genome from inspiring English sources

A draft sequence of the Japanese puffer fish genome--the most compact genome of all vertebrates--is now in the public databases (ScienceNOW, 26 October).

T. rubripes has the most compact genome, which contains only two Arp genes encoding Arp3 and Arp5, so far the smallest number of actin-related proteins in a sequenced genome (Table 6).

The most compact genome (A. terreus), contains only the core set of mitochondrial genes, while other genomes contain at least one accessory gene.

Oikopleura dioica (hereinafter Oikopleura) is a small pelagic tunicate which possesses the most compact genome identified in any chordate, at only 72 Mb [ 22].

This may be related to the fact that among these species, C. intestinalis has the smallest and most compact genome, with the exception of Oikopleura, which has a larger population size and an extraordinary short generation time [ 10].

According to the decoded sequences [ 13], the rice genome comprises 389 mega base pairs (Mb) in total nucleotide length, and is one of the most compact genomes in monocotyledonous species.

This phenomenon is common for the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the smallest free-living eukaryotes known to date, the green algae Ostreococcus lucimarinus, which also carry one of the most compact genomes among eukaryotes.

Plastids of red algae and their derivatives tend to have more genes than those of green plastid lineages [ 1, 2], so it is interesting that the smallest and most compact genomes are found among the red plastids of apicomplexa.

Similarly, both intron number and intron density are positively correlated with expression levels for the unicellular green algae Ostreococcus lucimarinus, which is the smallest free-living eukaryotes known to date and also contains one of the most compact genomes among all known eukaryotes [ 13].

> The proportion of repeats in the T. flavidus genome was greater than that in the Tetraodon nigroviridis genome, which was the most compact vertebrate genome (4.51%), and slightly less than that in the T. rubripes (7.40%).

No representatives of the cystatin superfamily can be found in the most compact metazoan genome, the Trichoplax adherens (Placozoa).