Chloropicon primus
Description
Documentation:
A streamlined and predominantly diploid genome in the tiny marine green alga Chloropicon primus (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12014-x)
A single species, Micromonas pusilla (Prasinophyceae), dominates the eukaryotic picoplankton in the western English Channel (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15240284/)
Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity (https://www.nature.com/articles/35054541)