The genetic intractability of Symbiodinium microadriaticum to standard algal transformation methods.

Modern transformation and genome editing techniques have shown great success across a broad variety of organisms. However, no study of successfully applied genome editing has been reported in a dinoflagellate despite the first genetic transformation of Symbiodinium being published about 20 years ago...

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Main Authors: Jit Ern Chen, Adrian C Barbrook, Guoxin Cui, Christopher J Howe, Manuel Aranda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211936