Aureococcus

Aureococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Ochrophyta
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]} It is the only species in the genus Aureococcus.

References

1. Gobler, C. J.; Berry, D. L.; Dyhrman, S. T.; Wilhelm, S. W.; Salamov, A.; Lobanov, A. V.; Zhang, Y.; Collier, J. L.; Wurch, L. L.; Kustka, A. B.; Dill, B. D.; Shah, M.; VerBerkmoes, N. C.; Kuo, A.; Terry, A.; Pangilinan, J.; Lindquist, E. A.; Lucas, S.; Paulsen, I. T.; Hattenrath-Lehmann, T. K.; Talmage, S. C.; Walker, E. A.; Koch, F.; Burson, A. M.; Marcoval, M. A.; Tang, Y.-Z.; LeCleir, G. R.; Coyne, K. J.; Berg, G. M.; Bertrand, E. M.; Saito, M. A.; Gladyshev, V. N.; Grigoriev, I. V. (2011). "Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (11): 4352–4357. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.4352G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1016106108 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   3060233 . PMID   21368207.
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. Bibcode:1988JPcgy..24..416S. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1988.tb04485.x. ISSN   0022-3646. S2CID   84094269.

Further reading

• Zhang, Qing-Chun; Qiu, Li-Mei; Yu, Ren-Cheng; Kong, Fan-Zhou; Wang, Yun-Feng; Yan, Tian; Gobler, Christopher J.; Zhou, Ming-Jiang (2012). "Emergence of brown tides caused by Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves et Sieburth in China". Harmful Algae. 19: 117–124. doi:10.1016/j.hal.2012.06.007. ISSN   1568-9883.
• Randhawa, Varunpreet; Thakkar, Megha; Wei, Liping (15 October 2013). "Effect of algal growth phase on Aureococcus anophagefferens susceptibility to hydrogen peroxide". Aquatic Toxicology. 142: 230–238. Bibcode:2013AqTox.142..230R. doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2013.08.015. PMID   24055756.
• Dong, Hong-Po; Huang, Kai-Xuan; Wang, Hua-Long; Cen, Jing-Yi; Dong, Yue-Lei (22 October 2014). "Understanding Strategy of Nitrate and Urea Assimilation in a Chinese Strain of Aureococcus anophagefferens through RNA-Seq Analysis". PLOS ONE. 9 (10) e111069. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9k1069D. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111069 . PMC   4206512 . PMID   25338000.
• Brown, Christopher (October 2014). "Attenuation of virus production at high multiplicities of infection in Aureococcus anophagefferens". Virology. 466–467: 71–81. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.07.023 . PMID   25104555.

External links

• AlgaeBase entry