Project description:Dunaliella salina Bardawil (also known as Dunaliella bardawil) is an extremophilic, unicellular green alga from the Chlorophyte lineage. D. salina is found in hypersaline environments where it can tolerate extremes of heat, light, pH, and up to saturating concentrations of salt. The D. salina Bardawil isolate (UTEX LB 2538) was found in a salt pond near the Bardawil Lagoon on the Sinai peninsula in 1976. This isolate of D. salina is the richest natural source of beta-carotene, a highly valuable commercial product. This accession includes an RNA-Seq analysis of D. salina Bardawil cultures grown in iron-replete (1.5 µM) or iron-deficient (0 µM) media.
Project description:RNA sequencing was performed to investigate the transcriptomic response of Dunaliella salina cultivated in Sistan deep water. Four RNA-seq libraries representing two biological replicates for the control and two biological replicates for the deep water treatment were generated using the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform. Raw sequencing data are available in SRA under BioProject PRJNA1267574. Processed gene count data are provided.
