The Chlamydomonas Genetics Center

单细胞绿藻莱茵衣藻（Chlamydomonas reinhardtii）是研究光合作用、鞭毛生物发生与功能、信号转导等细胞生物学方面的优秀模型系统。衣藻遗传中心是接收、分类、保存和分发莱茵衣藻和其他衣藻物种的野生型和突变型培养物的中心库，对这些物种进行了广泛的遗传分析，并作为向国际科学界传播这一重要模式生物信息的资源中心。该中心还维护和分发对衣藻研究有用的分子试剂，包括衣藻细胞核、叶绿体和线粒体基因的基因组和cDNA克隆。基因组和cDNA文库将在下一个资助期内增加。一个全面的数据库可通过万维网访问，提供了所有文化的描述，历史信息和遗传位点和突变等位基因的参考资料，遗传和分子图谱，DNA序列数据，地址目录和广泛的参考书目。衣藻遗传中心的网页[http://www.botany.duke.edu/chlamy/]]协调了数据库，即生物网。衣藻新闻组，和在线菌株订单，并提供链接到其他网站的藻类研究，光合作用，和相关的主题。

The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an excellent model system for studies of photosynthesis, flagellar biogenesis and function, signal transduction, and other aspects of cell biology. The Chlamydomonas Genetics Center serves as the central repository to receive, catalogue, preserve and distribute wild type and mutant cultures of C. reinhardtii and other Chlamydomonas species in which extensive genetic analysis has been done, and as the resource center to disseminate information on this important model organism to the international scientific community. The Center also maintains and distributes molecular reagents useful for research on Chlamydomonas, including genomic and cDNA clones of Chlamydomonas nuclear, chloroplast and mitochondrial genes. Genomic and cDNA libraries will be added during the next proposed funding period. A comprehensive database accessible through the World Wide Web provides descriptions of all cultures in the collection, historical information and reference material on genetic loci and mutant alleles, genetic and molecular maps, DNA sequence data, an address directory, and an extensive bibliography. The Chlamydomonas Genetics Center web page [http://www.botany.duke.edu/chlamy/] coordinates the database, the bionet.chlamydomonas newsgroup, and on-line strain orders, and provides links to other sites on algal research, photosynthesis, and related topics.