Phylogenetic analysis of LSU and SSU rDNA group I introns of lichen photobionts associated with the genera Xanthoria and Xanthomendoza (Teloschistaceae, lichenized Ascomycetes).

abstract：:A metabolite screening of cyanobacteria was performed by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of the soluble material obtained through sequential extraction of the biomass with three different extractive ability solvents (hexane, ethyl acetate, and methanol). Twenty-five strains from the Coimbra Collection of Alg...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Iglesias MJ,Soengas R,Martins CB,Correia MJ,Ferreira JD,Santos LMA,Ortiz FL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal and spatial variations in Sargassum ilicifolium thallus density and length were investigated on equatorial coral reefs in Singapore from November 2011 to October 2012. Thalli density varied little throughout the year, however, we found strong seasonal patterns in thallus length and identified temperature as t...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Low JKY,Fong J,Todd PA,Chou LM,Bauman AG

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new gynandrosporous species of Oedocladium from the United States were isolated into unialgal culture and comparative studies were made. The new taxa described, O. carolinianum sp. nov. and O. cir-ratum sp. nov., are morphologically very similar. Both species have an opercufate oogonium with inferior division, oos...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Beaney WD,Hoffman LR

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene duplication is an important evolutionary process that allows duplicate functions to diverge, or, in some cases, allows for new functional gains. However, in contrast to the nuclear genome, gene duplications within the chloroplast are extremely rare. Here, we present the chloroplast genome of the photosynthetic pr...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Bennett MS,Shiu SH,Triemer RE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CO2 levels in freshwater systems can fluctuate widely, potentially influencing photosynthetic rates and growth of phytoplankton. Given the right conditions, this can lead to bloom formation and affect water quality. This study investigated the acquisition of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) by six species of microalga...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Lines T,Beardall J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine filamentous nonheterocystous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Lyngbya aestuarii (F. K. Mert.) Liebman ex Gomont CCY 9616 was grown under diazotrophic and nondiazotrophic conditions and under an alternating 16:8 light:dark (L:D) regime. Nitrogenase activity appeared just before the onset of the dark period, re...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Ferreira D,Stal LJ,Moradas-Ferreira P,Mendes MV,Tamagnini P

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Microchaetaceae is a large group of heterocytous cyanobacteria, whose members bear typical morphological features of uniseriate heteropolar filaments never terminated by thin hairs and with simple false branching. However, phylogenetic analyses of the gene for 16S rRNA showed that members of this traditiona...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Hauer T,Bohunická M,Johansen JR,Mareš J,Berrendero-Gomez E

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some abiotic conditions are well known to play disproportionately large roles in shaping contemporary assemblages, yet their roles may not continue to have similar magnitudes of effect into the future. We tested whether forecasted levels of CO2 could alter the strength of influence of an abiotic factor (i.e., light in...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Russell BD,Passarelli CA,Connell SD

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences of the gene encoding the large subunit of RUBISCO (rbcL) for 30 genera in the six currently recognized families of conjugating green algae (Desmidiaceae, Gonatozygaceae, Mesotaeniaceae, Peniaceae, and Zygnemataceae) were analyzed using maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood; bootstrap replications were per...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： McCourt RM,Karol KG,Bell J,Helm-Bychowski KM,Grajewska A,Wojciechowski MF,Hoshaw RW

更新日期：2000-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Menadione, a quinone that undergoes redox cycles leading to the formation of superoxide radicals, induces programmed cell death (PCD) in animals and plants. In this study, we investigated whether the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii P.A.Dangeard is capable of executing PCD upon exposure to menadione st...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Sirisha VL,Sinha M,D'Souza JS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antarctica is one of the most difficult habitats for sustaining life on earth; organisms that live there have developed different strategies for survival. Among these organisms is the green alga Prasiola crispa, belonging to the class Trebouxiophyceae. The literature on P. crispa taxonomy is scarce, and many gaps in t...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Carvalho EL,Wallau GL,Rangel DL,Machado LC,Pereira AB,Victoria FC,Boldo JT,Pinto PM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructural changes which occurred during senescence in the stationary phase of growth of the unicellular green alga Spongiochloris typica were observed. The cell wall consists of a membrane like primary wall and an inner secondary wall which becomes progressively thickened with age of the culture. During sene...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： McLean RJ

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) released by macroalgae is important in the context of coral reef degradation as it contributes to coral mortality by promoting bacterial metabolism on the coral surface. Using experimental carbon dioxide (CO2 ) manipulations in outdoor flow-through tanks, we found that seawater CO2 enric...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Diaz-Pulido G,Barrón C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of horizontal gene transfers (HGTs) has primarily relied on phylogenetic tree based methods, which require a rich sampling of sequenced genomes to ensure a reliable inference. Because the success of phylogenetic approaches depends on the breadth and depth of the database, researchers usually apply strin...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Pandey RS,Saxena G,Bhattacharya D,Qiu H,Azad RK

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enormous species diversity of diatoms correlates with the remarkable range of cell sizes in this group. Nuclear DNA content relates fundamentally to cell volume in other eukaryotic cells. The relationship of cell volume to G1 DNA content was determined among selected members of the genus Thalassiosira, one of the ...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Von Dassow P,Petersen TW,Chepurnov VA,Virginia Armbrust E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial eukaryotes may extinguish much of their nuclear phylogenetic history due to endosymbiotic/horizontal gene transfer (E/HGT). We studied E/HGT in 32,110 contigs of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense (Dinophyceae) using a conservative phylogenomic approach. The vast maj...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Chan CX,Soares MB,Bonaldo MF,Wisecaver JH,Hackett JD,Anderson DM,Erdner DL,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic and anaerobic microalgae are of significance in both basic research and industrial application. A microalga strain was isolated from a wastewater treatment pond and identified as Chlorella sorokiniana Shihira et W. R. Krauss GXNN01 in terms of morphology, physiology, and phylogeny. The strain grows rapid...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Qiao H,Wang G,Zhang X

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The broadly defined genus Chaetophora consisted of species with minute, uniseriate branching filaments enveloped in soft or firm mucilage forming macroscopic growths that are spherical, hemispherical, and tubercular or arbuscular, growing epiphytically on freshwater aquatic plants and other submerged surfaces in stand...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Liu B,Xiong Q,Liu X,Liu G,Hu Z

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history of group I introns is characterized by repeated horizontal transfers, even among phylogenetically distant species. The symbiogenetic thalli of lichens are good candidates for the horizontal transfer of genetic material among distantly related organisms, such as fungi and green algae. The main goal of this ...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Del Hoyo A,Álvarez R,Gasulla F,Casano LM,Del Campo EM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine dinoflagellate, Glenoclinium foliaceum Stein, has been shown to contain fucoxanthin, instead of peridinin, as the major xanthophyll. In addition, 2 carotenes-β-carotene and a compound with spectral properties reminiscent of isomerized y-carotene-and 2 xanthophylls-diadinoxanthin and an unidentified compound...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Mandelli EF

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the morphologically unusual cyanobacterial family Gomontiellaceae were studied using a polyphasic approach. Cultured strains of Hormoscilla pringsheimii, Starria zimbabweënsis, Crinalium magnum, and Crinalium epipsammum were thoroughly examined, and the type specimen of the family, Gomontiella subtubulosa, ...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Bohunická M,Mareš J,Hrouzek P,Urajová P,Lukeš M,Šmarda J,Komárek J,Gaysina LA,Strunecký O

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) in promoting dominance of the toxic nitrogen (N)-fixing cyanobacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (Wołosz.) Seenayya et Subba Raju was examined in a subtropical water reservoir, Lake Samsonvale (=North Pine reservoir). A novel in situ bioassay approach, using dialys...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Posselt AJ,Burford MA,Shaw G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysts belonging to the benthic dinoflagellate Bysmatrum subsalsum were recovered from palynologically treated sediments collected in the Alvarado Lagoon (southwestern Gulf of Mexico). The cysts are proximate, reflecting the features of the parent thecal stage, and their autofluorescence implies a dinosporin compositio...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Limoges A,Mertens KN,Ruíz-Fernández AC,de Vernal A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the 1970s, Puget Sound, Washington State, USA, has experienced an increase in detections of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) in shellfish due to blooms of the harmful dinoflagellate Alexandrium. Natural patterns of climate variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and changes in local environm...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Feifel KM,Moore SK,Horner RA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyropia yezoensis (Ueda) M. S. Hwang et H. G. Choi (previously called Porphyra yezoensis) is an economically important alga. The blades generated from conchospores are genetic chimeras, which are not suitable for genetic similarity analysis. In this study, two types of blades from a single filament of P. yezoensis spo...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： He L,Zhu J,Lu Q,Niu J,Zhang B,Lin A,Wang G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chloroplast pigments of 2 species of Chloro-monadophyceae have been examined. Both Gonyo-stomum semen and Vacuolaria virescens possessed only one chlorophyll, chlorophyll a. Gonyostomum contained 4 carotenoids, but not fucoxanthin and peridinin. Vacuolaria also possessed 4 carotenoids which have been identified as...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Chapman DJ,Haxo FT

更新日期：1966-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite studies suggesting that most seaweeds are poor dispersers, many red algal species are reported to have circumglobal distributions. Such distributions have mostly been based on morphological identifications, but molecular data have revealed a range of issues with morphologically defined species boundaries. Cons...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Díaz-Tapia P,Maggs CA,Macaya EC,Verbruggen H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A giant form of Anadyomene, most similar to Anadyomene pavonina (J. Agardh) Wille, a rare and diminutive alga endemic to Florida, appeared as up to 10 m long net-like strands covering 10%-80% of a 0.5 km region of the 25-50 m deep Belizean outer reef slope where none had been present up to 12 months earlier. This new ...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Littler MM,Littler DS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a long-term study on the biology and ecology of the intertidal kelp Lessonia nigrescens Bory, we report on the occurrence of gall development on this alga, identified the possible causal agent, and assessed the extent of the phenomenon in two wild stands of the host. Our results showed that galls affecting ...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Thomas D,Beltrán J,Flores V,Contreras L,Bollmann E,Correa JA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the fluorescent stain Nile Red (NR), phytoplankton lipid accumulation can be monitored quickly and in situ. In the light of recent results in phytoplankton diversity research, there is also a need for cell- and species-specific lipid measurement techniques. The objective of this work was to investigate whether ce...

journal_title：Journal of phycology

authors： Natunen K,Seppälä J,Koivula RJ,Pellinen J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00