<Emphasis Type="Italic">Elliptochloris bilobata</Emphasis> var. <Emphasis Type="Italic">corticola</Emphasis> var. nov. (Trebouxiophyceae,Chlorophyta), a novel subaerial coccal green alga |
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Authors: | Marek Eliáš Jiří Neustupa Pavel Škaloud |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University of Prague, Benátská 2, Praha 2, CZ-12801, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | We investigated a previously unidentified subaerial corticolous strain of the genus Elliptochloris Tschermak-Woess. The alga shares the generic morphological characters with Elliptochloris bilobata, the type species of the genus, but it has a thicker cell wall of adult globular cells, different chloroplast structure and
it also differs in shape of elliptical autospores. The differences of the autospore shape between both species were evaluated
using landmark-based geometric morphometrics. The 18S rDNA gene sequence of the new alga forms a monophyletic clade with the
authentic strain of E. bilobata within the green algal class Trebouxiophyceae close to representatives of the genus Coccomyxa. We describe the new alga as Elliptochloris bilobata var. corticola var. nov.
Presented at the International Symposium Biology and Taxonomy of Green Algae V, Smolenice, June 26–29, 2007, Slovakia. |
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Keywords: | subaerial algae Trebouxiophyceae Elliptochloris Chlorophyta taxonomy geometric morphometrics |
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