Genetic engineering of microalgae is emerging at very fast pace because of the potential of this microbe in the field of agriculture, therapeutic recombinant proteins, environment, bioenergy and so on. To work on basic understanding and production of different metabolites from microalgae, information with respect to gene sequences available, promoter, genome, selectable marker, and reporter is required. Nuclear, chloroplastic and other organeller genome information is available online which helps in better understanding of this microalgae. Information with respect to various promoters, selectable markers and reporter genes helps to design different strategies for genetic manipulation of microalgae for production of a variety of value added compounds and fundamental studies of this very promising microorganism.

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