Parietochloris incisa comb. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) |
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| Authors: | Shin Watanabe Seishiro Hirabayashi Sammy Boussiba Zvi Cohen Avigad Vonshak Amos Richmond |
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| Institution: | Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Toyama University, Toyama 930, Japan;Microalgal Biotechnology, The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker Campus 84993, Israel |
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| Abstract: | A coccoid green alga, Myrmecia incisa Reisigl, was isolated from the soil of Mt Tateyama, Japan. Electronmicroscopy revealed that the organism has pyrenoids sparsely covered with starch segments and traversed by many parallel thylakoid membranes, and zoo-spores with counterclockwise basal body orientation. Due to the presence of these features, we have proposed a reclassification of M. incisa into the genus Parietochloris, Trebouxiophyceae. |
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| Keywords: | Chlorococcales Myrmecia Parietochloris pyrenoid soil algae Trebouxiophyceae |
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