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The ultrastructure and taxonomy of Rhizochromulina marina gen. et sp.nov., an amoeboid marine chrysophyte

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

David J. Hibberd
Affiliation:
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa, 36, Storey's Way, Cambridge
Marie-Josèphe Chretiennot-Dinet
Affiliation:
Station Marine d'Endoume, Rue de la Batterie-des-Lions, 13007 Marseille, France

Extract

A new member of the Chrysophyceae, Rhizochromulina marina gen. et sp.nov. is described by means of both light and electron microscopy of cultured material. Vegetative cells are non-flagellate and amoeboid with many fine beaded filipodia and a single golden-brown chloroplast. Zoospores are fusiform in shape and genuinely uniflagellate with no emergent vestigial second flagellum. They appear to possess the most reduced and phylogenetically advanced type of motile cell organization yet found in the Chrysophyceae.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1979

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