Supported by National High-Tech Research and Development Pro-gram of China (863 Program, No. 2002AA628050) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30270031).
Dunaliella salina, a halotolerant unicellular green alga without a rigid cell wall, can live in salinities ranging from 0.05 to 5 mol/L NaC1. These features of D. salina make it an ideal host for the production of ant...