The world's first! The 10,000-species native genome project was launched

recently, the world's first Protist 10,000 Genomes Project (P10K) was officially launched to map the genomes of 10,000 representative protogeniary organisms and establish a large-scale database of proto-living genetic resources.
Protozoa is one of the five biological boundaries (plant, fungal, animal, protobiotic and proto-nuclear biomes), mainly composed of a large group of single-celled etonymites, including single-celled etony algae and protozoa, the number of species described more than 60,000 species, unknown species incalculable.
, the distribution of native organisms is extremely wide, as long as there is water, there are native organisms. Progenitives are an important component of the aquatic ecosystem, in which algae contribute nearly 50% of the planet's photogasing behavior, but also aquatic animals and humans excellent bait and nutrition, in addition, some algae and diatoms will cause rivers and ocean toxic algae, causing serious environmental problems. At the same time, many protozoa are important pathogenic parasites of humans, livestock and aquatic animals, such as malaria parasites, sleeping trypanosomiasis, chicken ballworms, and so on.
present, some native organisms have made important contributions as model organisms in basic biology research. For example, nucleases found in heat-thymosin worms, as well as telomeres and telomerases, won Nobel Prizes in
and 2009, respectively. However, only more than 400 species of native organisms have published genomic data.
it is reported that the project was jointly initiated by
Aquatic Institute, Tibet University, Henan Agricultural University, China Agricultural
Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute,
Beijing Genomics Research Institute and Hua zhong University of Science and Technology.
, deputy director of the Institute of Aquatic Biology, the 10,000 Progenotic Genome Project is the first large-scale genome sequencing program for the progeny community in the world. The program will complete the genome sequencing and analysis of approximately 10,000 progenitic organisms over the next three years, including all 26 categories/classes of progenitic organisms, covering more than 85 per cent of the species, 60 per cent of the species and 30 per cent of the genus, based on the more than 3,000 or so ethyrical algae and native vivid species quality resources held by the initiators.
To carry out the genome plan of 10,000 proto-living organisms will help to understand the major basic life science issues such as the mechanism of biodiversity formation, the origin and evolution of multicellular organisms/sexual reproduction, promote the interconnection of information on the national science and technology resource sharing service platform, and promote the excavation and application of protosomal mass transmission resources related to ecological environment protection, nutritional health and disease prevention and control.
note that the program will operate under an open alliance model, with interested research teams at home and abroad joining.