TY - JOUR AU - Simon, Andreas AU - Glöckner, Gernot AU - Felder, Marius AU - Melkonian, Michael AU - Becker, Burkhard PY - 2006 DA - 2006/02/13 TI - EST analysis of the scaly green flagellate Mesostigma viride (Streptophyta): Implications for the evolution of green plants (Viridiplantae) JO - BMC Plant Biology SP - 2 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - The Viridiplantae (land plants and green algae) consist of two monophyletic lineages, the Chlorophyta and the Streptophyta. The Streptophyta include all embryophytes and a small but diverse group of freshwater algae traditionally known as the Charophyceae (e.g. Charales, Coleochaete and the Zygnematales). The only flagellate currently included in the Streptophyta is Mesostigma viride Lauterborn. To gain insight into the genome evolution in streptophytes, we have sequenced 10,395 ESTs from Mesostigma representing 3,300 independent contigs and compared the ESTs of Mesostigma with available plant genomes (Arabidopsis, Oryza, Chlamydomonas), with ESTs from the bryophyte Physcomitrella, the genome of the rhodophyte Cyanidioschyzon, the ESTs from the rhodophyte Porphyra, and the genome of the diatom Thalassiosira. SN - 1471-2229 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-6-2 DO - 10.1186/1471-2229-6-2 ID - Simon2006 ER -