Functional characterization of the diatom cyclin-dependent kinase A2 as a mitotic regulator reveals plant-like properties in a non-green lineage

1 Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Ghent, 9052, Belgium

2 Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB, and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, 9052, Belgium

3 Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium

4 Environmental and Evolutionary Genomics Section, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 8186, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1024, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 75230, Cedex 05, France

5 Current address: Muroran Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Muroran 051-0013, Hokkaido, Japan