@article {Rodriguez2005h,
	title = {Ecotype diversity in the marine picoeukaryote Ostreococcus (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae).},
	journal = {Environmental Microbiology},
	volume = {7},
	year = {2005},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC113,RCC143,RCC343,RCC356,RCC371,RCC393,RCC410,RCC420,RCC434,RCC501,RCC658,RCC745,Rcc141},
	pages = {853{\textendash}859},
	keywords = {rcc, RCC113, Rcc141, RCC143, RCC343, RCC356, RCC371, RCC393, rcc410, RCC420, RCC434, rcc501, RCC658, RCC745, SBR$_\textrmP$hyto$_\textrmD$PO},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00758.x},
	author = {Rodriguez, F and Derelle, E and Guillou, L and Le Gall, F and Vaulot, D and Moreau, H}
}
@article {Robbens2005,
	title = {Genome-wide analysis of core cell cycle genes in the unicellular green alga Ostreococcus tauri},
	journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {2005},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC745},
	pages = {589{\textendash}597},
	abstract = {The cell cycle has been extensively studied in various organisms, and the recent access to an overwhelming amount of genomic data has given birth to a new integrated approach called comparative genomics. Comparing the cell cycle across species shows that its regulation is evolutionarily conserved; the best-known example is the pivotal role of cyclin-dependent kinases in all the eukaryotic lineages hitherto investigated. Interestingly, the molecular network associated with the activity of the CDK-cyclin complexes is also evolutionarily conserved, thus, defining a core cell cycle set of genes together with lineage-specific adaptations. In this paper, we describe the core cell cycle genes of Ostreococcus tauri, the smallest free-living eukaryotic cell having a minimal cellular organization with a nucleus, a single chloroplast, and only one mitochondrion. This unicellular marine green alga, which has diverged at the base of the green lineage, shows the minimal yet complete set of core cell cycle genes described to date. It has only one homolog of CDKA, CDKB, CDKD, cyclin A, cyclin B, cyclin D, cyclin H, Cks, Rb, E2F, DP, DEL, Cdc25, and Wee L We have also added the APC and SCF E3 ligases to the core cell cycle gene set. We discuss the potential of genome-wide analysis in the identification of divergent orthologs of cell cycle genes in different lineages by mining the genomes of evolutionarily important and strategic organisms.},
	keywords = {Anaphase Promoting Complex, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Cdk Activity, cell division cycle, Chlorophyta, cyclin, cyclin dependant kinase, Green alga, Kinase, Ostreococcus tauri, Plant, Prasinophyceae, rcc, RCC745, Retinoblastoma Protein, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Yeast},
	doi = {10.1093/molbev/msi044},
	author = {Robbens, S and Khadaroo, B and Camasses, A and Derelle, E and Ferraz, C and Inze, D and Van, de Peer Y and Moreau, H}
}
@article {Six2005a,
	title = {New insights into the nature and phylogeny of prasinophyte antenna proteins: Ostreococcus tauri, a case study},
	journal = {Molecular Biology and Evolution},
	volume = {22},
	number = {11},
	year = {2005},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC113,RCC114,RCC745: RCC417},
	pages = {2217{\textendash}2230},
	abstract = {The basal position of the Mamiellales (Prasinophyceae) within the green lineage makes these unicellular organisms key to elucidating early stages in the evolution of chlorophyll a/b{\textendash}binding light-harvesting complexes (LHCs). Here, we unveil the complete and unexpected diversity of Lhc proteins in Ostreococcus tauri, a member of the Mamiellales order, based on results from complete genome sequencing. Like Mantoniella squamata, O. tauri possesses a number of genes encoding an unusual prasinophyte-specific Lhc protein type herein designated "Lhcp". Biochemical characterization of the complexes revealed that these polypeptides, which bind chlorophylls a, b, and a chlorophyll c{\textendash}like pigment (Mg-2,4-divinyl-phaeoporphyrin a5 monomethyl ester) as well as a number of unusual carotenoids, are likely predominant. They are retrieved to some extent in both reaction center I (RCI){\textendash} and RCII-enriched fractions, suggesting a possible association to both photosystems. However, in sharp contrast to previous reports on LHCs of M. squamata, O. tauri also possesses other LHC subpopulations, including LHCI proteins (encoded by five distinct Lhca genes) and the minor LHCII polypeptides, CP26 and CP29. Using an antibody against plant Lhca2, we unambiguously show that LHCI proteins are present not only in O. tauri, in which they are likely associated to RCI, but also in other Mamiellales, including M. squamata. With the exception of Lhcp genes, all the identified Lhc genes are present in single copy only. Overall, the discovery of LHCI proteins in these prasinophytes, combined with the lack of the major LHCII polypeptides found in higher plants or other green algae, supports the hypothesis that the latter proteins appeared subsequent to LHCI proteins. The major LHC of prasinophytes might have arisen prior to the LHCII of other chlorophyll a/b{\textendash}containing organisms, possibly by divergence of a LHCI gene precursor. However, the discovery in O. tauri of CP26-like proteins, phylogenetically placed at the base of the major LHCII protein clades, yields new insight to the origin of these antenna proteins, which have evolved separately in higher plants and green algae. Its diverse but numerically limited suite of Lhc genes renders O. tauri an exceptional model system for future research on the evolution and function of LHC components.},
	keywords = {rcc, RCC113, RCC114, RCC417, RCC745, SBR$_\textrmP$hyto$_\textrmD$PO},
	doi = {10.1093/molbev/msi220},
	author = {Six, C and Worden, A Z and Rodriguez, F and Moreau, H and Partensky, F}
}
@article {Ral2004,
	title = {Starch division and partitioning. A mechanism for granule propagation and maintenance in the picophytoplanktonic green alga Ostreococcus tauri},
	journal = {Plant Physiology},
	volume = {136},
	number = {2},
	year = {2004},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC745},
	pages = {3333{\textendash}3340},
	abstract = {Whereas Glc is stored in small-sized hydrosoluble glycogen particles in archaea, eubacteria, fungi, and animal cells, photosynthetic eukaryotes have resorted to building starch, which is composed of several distinct polysaccharide fractions packed into a highly organized semicrystalline granule. In plants, both the initiation of polysaccharide synthesis and the nucleation mechanism leading to formation of new starch granules are currently not understood. Ostreococcus tauri, a unicellular green alga of the Prasinophyceae family, defines the tiniest eukaryote with one of the smallest genomes. We show that it accumulates a single starch granule at the chloroplast center by using the same pathway as higher plants. At the time of plastid division, we observe elongation of the starch and division into two daughter structures that are partitioned in each newly formed chloroplast. These observations suggest that in this system the information required to initiate crystalline polysaccharide growth of a new granule is contained within the preexisting polysaccharide structure and the design of the plastid division machinery.},
	keywords = {Adp Glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Amylopectin, Arabidopsis, Bacterial Glycogen, Biogenesis, Biosynthesis, Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, Enzyme, Prasinophyceae, rcc, RCC745, Synthase},
	doi = {10.1104/pp.104.044131},
	author = {Ral, J P and Derelle, E and Ferraz, C and Wattebled, F and Farinas, B and Corellou, F and Buleon, A and Slomianny, M C and Delvalle, D and D, Hulst C and Rombauts, S and Moreau, H and Ball, S}
}
@article {Derelle2002,
	title = {DNA libraries for sequencing the genome of Ostreococcus tauri (Chlorophyta, Prasinophyceae): The smallest free-living eukaryotic cell},
	journal = {Journal of Phycology},
	volume = {38},
	number = {6},
	year = {2002},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC745},
	pages = {1150{\textendash}1156},
	abstract = {Ostreococcus tauri is a marine photosynthetic picoeukaryote presenting a minimal cellular organization with one nucleus, one chloroplast, and one mitochondrion. It has the smallest genome described among free-living eukaryotic cells, and we showed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) that it is divided between 15 bands ranging from 1.2 to 0.15 Mb, giving a total size of 9.7 Mb. A Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) library was prepared from genomic DNA extracted from a culture of O. tauri. A total of 2457 clones was obtained with an average insert size of around 70 kb, representing an 18-fold coverage of the genome. The library was spotted on high density filters, and several probes of coding sequences were hybridized to both the high density BAC library filters and directly to the dried PFGE gels of the O. tauri genomic DNA. These hybridizations allowed a preliminary organization of the library and the localization of several markers on the chromosomes. Randomly selected fragments were also sequenced, representing 12\% of the O. tauri genome. Many sequences showed significant similarities in data banks, mainly with plant and algae sequences. About 1000 coding sequences could be identified. These data confirmed the position of O. tauri in the green lineage and the hypothesis of a very compact organization of its genome.},
	keywords = {Pico$_\textrmR$eview, rcc, RCC745},
	doi = {10.1046/j.1529-8817.2002.02021.x},
	url = {c:\%5CDV\%5CPapers reprints\%5CPhytoplankton Physiology\%5CDerelle Ostreococcus DNA libraries JPhycol 02.pdf},
	author = {Derelle, E and Ferraz, C and Lagoda, P and Eychenie, S and Cooke, R and Regad, F and Sabau, X and Courties, C and Delseny, M and Demaille, J and Picard, A and Moreau, H}
}
