Biology:Aureococcus

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Short description: Species of alga

Aureococcus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pelagomonadales
Family: Pelagomonadaceae
Genus: Aureococcus
Species:
A. anophagefferens
Binomial name
Aureococcus anophagefferens
Hargraves & Sieburth, 1988

Aureococcus anophagefferens is a species of heterokont alga. Its cells have a single chloroplast, nucleus, and mitochondrion and an unusual exocellular polysaccharide-like layer. It causes harmful algal blooms.[1][2]

References

  1. Gobler, C. J.; Berry, D. L.; Dyhrman, S. T.; Wilhelm, S. W.; Salamov, A.; Lobanov, A. V.; Zhang, Y.; Collier, J. L. et al. (2011). "Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (11): 4352–4357. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016106108. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 21368207. PMC 3060233. Bibcode2011PNAS..108.4352G. https://works.bepress.com/steven_wilhelm/21/download/. 
  2. Sieburth, John McN.; Johnson, Paul W.; Hargraves, Paul E. (1988). "Ultrastructure and Ecology of Aureococcus Anophageferens Gen. Et Sp. Nov. (Chrysophyceae): The Dominant Picoplankter During a Bloom in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Summer 1985". Journal of Phycology 24 (3): 416–425. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1988.tb04485.x. ISSN 0022-3646. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16835444 entry