Systems Genetics and Genomics of Green Microalgae
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant cell biology; chloroplast protein quality control; organelle biology; forward and reverse genetic screens; fluorescence-based imaging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As a hub of photosynthetic production and a central metabolic factory, green microalgae are at the heart of essentially all marine and freshwater food webs and this is inextricably, as well as to our atmosphere’s CO2 and O2 levels. Since microalgae is a promising platform for both basic research and industrial production, there is a growing interest in understanding gene function and its manipulation. The unique physiological features of microalgae, together with advances in technology, make them amenable for systematic screens and allow us to connect genotypes to phenotypes. Efforts include systematic data on individual proteins (such as function, localization, amount, and modifications), their physical association, and the interconnectivity between cellular functions.
This Special Issue will cover the generation of mutant collections, fluorescently tagged libraries, and the application of genome-wide forward and genetic screens to address cell biology questions in a wide arena of microalgae species. Together with tens of publicly available datasets, these developments open avenues for exciting mechanistic studies on specific pathways and the opportunity for a holistic view of how the genetic code is translated into set of frameworks that underlie the function of the microalgae system in an evolutionary perspective.
Dr. Michal Breker-Dekel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- high-throughput screening
- genome-wide library
- sub-cellular localization
- endogenous tagging
- functional genomics
- green microalgae
- uncharacterized genes
- forward and reverse genetic screens
