date:Jun 20, 2013
Rothamsted Research scientists have been part of an international consortium that sequenced the whole genome and started characterizing the genes of the ecologically important marine alga Emiliana huxleyi, or Ehux to its friends.
Ehux is a coccolithophore, with an exoskeleton made of calcium carbonate. Even though the process by which the alga's armor forms releases CO2, Ehux can trap as much as 20 per cent of organic carbon, derived from CO2, in some marine ecosystems.
Ehux also produce inter