title: Bigelowiella natans
text: # Bigelowiella natans
  
  Bigelowiella natans is a species of Chlorarachniophyte alga that is a model organism for the Rhizaria.
  
  Chlorarachniophyte are unicellular marine algae with plastids of secondary endosymbiotic origin. Bigelowiella natans are a key resource for studying the supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.
  
  ## Genomes
  
  The Bigelowiella natans genome was the first rhizarian nuclear genome to be sequenced. The genome contains 94.7 Mbp encoding for 21,708 genes.
  
  