The Diatom Functional Genomics Team (Angela Falciatore and Antonio E. Fortunato) contributed to the manuscript “Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus”,  published on Nature in January 2017. This study, coordinated by Prof. Thomas Mock, University of East Anglia, Norwich, has revealed the existence of highly diverged alleles in the genome of this polar diatom species that may be involved in adaptation to environmental fluctuations in the Southern Ocean.

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