| Entry | T00300 |
| Org code | syf |
| Name | Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 = FACHB-805 (Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942) |
| Category | Reference genome |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:1140 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Cyanobacteriota; Cyanophyceae; Synechococcales; Synechococcaceae; Synechococcus; Synechococcus elongatus |
| Org group | Bacteria; Cyanobacteriota; Synechococcales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000012525.1 Complete Genome) |
| Original db | JGI
CyanoBase |
| Keywords | Photosynthesis |
| Comment | Naturally transformable, and was the first cyanobacterial strain to be reliably transformed by exogenously added DNA. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP000100) |
| Plasmid | 1; Circular (GB: CP000101) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 2661
Number of RNA genes: 53 |
| Created | 2005 |
| Reference | PMID: 16303742 |
| Authors | Holtman CK, Chen Y, Sandoval P, Gonzales A, Nalty MS, Thomas TL, Youderian P, Golden SS |
| Title | High-throughput functional analysis of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 genome. |
| Journal | DNA Res 12:103-15 (2005)
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/12.2.103 |
