Dunaliella salina Bardawil genome sequencing

Dunaliella salina Bardawil (also known as Dunaliella bardawil) is an extremophilic, unicellular green alga from the Chlorophyte lineage. D. salina is found in hypersaline environments where it can tolerate extremes of heat, light, pH, and up to saturating concentrations of salt. The D. salina Bardawil isolate (UTEX LB 2538) was found in a salt pond near the Bardawil Lagoon on the Sinai peninsula in 1978. This isolate of D. salina is the richest natural source of beta-carotene, a highly valuable commercial product. This BioProject includes genomic sequencing data from paired end Illumina short-read sequencing, PacBio long-read sequencing, and Illumina Hi-C sequencing.