Table 1.

Availability of genomic data to the Marine Express partners.

Organism	Taxonomy	Gene families of interest	State of genomic data	Partner
Pyrococcus abyssi	Euryarchaeota	Proteins from the DNA replication system	Genome published [1]	IFREMER Brest, France
Zobellia galactanivorans	Flavobacteria	Polysacchride metabolism, sulfatases	Genome complete	SBR Roscoff, France
Ectocarpus siliculosus	Brown alga	Stress related genes, carbohydrate active enzymes	14000 ESTs, Genome complete	SBR Roscoff, France
Ostreococcus tauri	Green microalga	Biological clock	Genome published [4]	Arago Banyuls, France
Ciona intestinalis	Urochordate	Hox-genes, Ci-msx, Ci-RX	Genome published [5]	SZ A. Dohrn, Napoli, Italia
Sparus aurata	Teleost fish	Hormones, calcium and musculo-skeletal development, stress related	30000 ESTs and 20 full length cDNAs	CCMAR Faro, Protugal
Archaeal virus (PAV1)	Not yet classified	Any	Genome published [28]	UBO, LM2E, Brest, France