“…Due to the industrial and academic interest in this algal species, its genomes (nuclear, mitochondrial, and plastid) were sequenced [8][9][10]. The availability of genome sequences allowed for the development of genetic tools and DNA delivery methods such as biolistic-mediated transformation [11,12], electroporation [13][14][15] and bacterial conjugation [16,17]. Additional tools for P. tricornutum include a method for cloning whole chromosomes in yeast and Escherichia coli [18], characterized centromeres for maintaining episomal DNA [19], and genome-editing technologies [6,[20][21][22].…”