Biology:Tetrabaenaceae
Tetrabaenaceae is a family of green algae in the order Chlamydomonadales.[1] It is widespread but occasional, and found in freshwater habitats.[2]
Members of the family Tetrabaenaceae consists of four-celled colonial organisms.[3] Each cell is ovoid and biflagellate (with two equal flagella) and is embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Cells contain a large cup-shaped chloroplast with a basal pyrenoid, a stigma, and two contractile vacuoles at the base of the flagella. Sexual reproduction is isogamous.[2]
The family contains two genera, Tetrabaena and Basichlamys. The two form a clade within the larger phylogroup Reinhardtinia,[4] and were traditionally thought to be sister to the clade containing Volvocaceae and Goniaceae.[5] However, recent phylogenomic evidence suggest that Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its allies, and Vitreochlamys ordinata are nested within the Tetrabaenaceae+Goniaceae+Volvocaceae clade, rendering it paraphyletic. Therefore, the phylogenetic relationships would be as follows:[6]
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References
- ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Tetrabaenaceae. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nakada, Takashi; Nozaki, Hisayoshi (2014). "Chapter 6. Flagellate Green Algae". Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification (2 ed.). Elsevier Inc.. pp. 265–313. ISBN 978-0-12-385876-4.
- ↑ Nozaki, Hisayoshi; Itoh, Motomi (1994). "Phylogenetic relationships within the colonial Volvocales (Chlorophyta) inferred from cladistic analysis based on morphological data". Journal of Phycology 30 (2): 353–365. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1994.00353.x. Bibcode: 1994JPcgy..30..353N.
- ↑ Nakada, Takashi; Tsuchida, Yudai; Tomita, Masaru (2019). "Improved taxon sampling and multigene phylogeny of unicellular chlamydomonads closely related to the colonial volvocalean lineage Tetrabaenaceae-Goniaceae-Volvocaceae (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 1–8. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.013. PMID 30266459. Bibcode: 2019MolPE.130....1N.
- ↑ Herron, Matthew D. (2016). "Origins of multicellular complexity: Volvox and the volvocine algae". Molecular Ecology 25 (6): 1213–1223. doi:10.1111/mec.13551. PMID 26822195. Bibcode: 2016MolEc..25.1213H.
- ↑ Lindsey, Charles Ross; Rosenzweig, Frank; Herron, Matthew D. (2021). "Phylotranscriptomics points to multiple independent origins of multicellularity and cellular differentiation in the volvocine algae". BMC Biology 19 (1): 182. doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01087-0. PMID 34465312. Bibcode: 2021BMCB...19..182L.
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