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Figure 1 and length distribution of clustered contigs and open reading frames.

Figure 1. Ostreococcus lucimarinus and length distribution of clustered contigs and open reading frames.

The prasinophyte green algal genus Ostreococcus is the smallest-known free-living eukaryotes, with an average size of 0.8 μm. (a) Image of Ostreococcus strain RCC 143 kindly provided by W. Eikrem and J. Throndsen (University of Oslo) (image also available in Wiki Commons). (b) and (c) Histograms showing the frequency and length distribution for clustered contigs (b) and longest open reading frames (c) for the Ostreococcus lucimarinus EST library.