"This project helps illustrate the amazing diversity of life on our planet," Armbrust says. "Diatoms display features traditionally thought to be restricted to animals and other features thought to be restricted to plants. Diatoms, with complete disregard for these presumed boundaries, have mixed and matched different attributes to create an incredibly successful microorganism. It's exciting to imagine the novelty in the oceans that still await our discovery."
Other co-authors were Winnie Lau, Micaela Schnitzler Parker and Tatiana Rynearson, University of Washington; John Berges, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Chris Bowler, Anton Montsant and Assaf Vardi, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Beverley Green, Balbir Chaal and Miroslav Obornik, University of British Columbia, Canada (Obornik now at Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic); Diego Martinez, Nicholas Putnam, J. Chris Detter, Tijana Glavina, David Goodstein, Uffee Hellsten, Susan Lucas, Mnica Medina and Paul Richardson, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Shiguo Zhou, Michael Bechner and David Schwartz, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Andrew Allen, Princeton University; Kirk Apt and J. Casey Lippmeier, Martek Biosciences Corp.; Mark Brzezinski and Mark Demarest, University of California Santa Barbara; Anthony Chiovitti, University of Melbourne, Australia; Aubrey Davis, Mark Hildebrand, Brian Palenik and Kimberlee Thamatrakoln, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Masood Hadi and Todd Lane, Sandia National Laboratory; Bethany Jenkins, University of California Santa Cruz; Jerzy Jurka and Vladimir Kapitonov, Genetic Information Research Institute; Nils Krger, Universitt Regensburg; Frank Larimer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Gregory Pazour, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Klaus Valentin, Alfred Wegener In
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