Lobosphaera

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Lobosphaera
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Lobosphaera incisa
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Clade: Viridiplantae
Division: Chlorophyta
Class: Trebouxiophyceae
Order: Trebouxiales
Family: Trebouxiaceae
Genus: Lobosphaera
Reisigl
Type species
Lobosphaera tirolensis
Reisigl [1]
Species [1]

Lobosphaera is a genus of green algae in the family Trebouxiaceae. [2] It was originally described from soils in Austria, [1] but has since been found in freshwater habitats and as a symbiont within lichens. [3]

Lobosphaera consists of solitary, spherical cells around 15 μm in diameter, surrounded by a thin cell wall. Cells contain a single chloroplast that is parietal with marginal indentations. Chloroplasts lack pyrenoids but have starch grains. Reproduction is asexual and occurs by the formation of 4-32 autospores; these are released by the rupture of the parental cell wall. [1] Species in the genus Lobosphaera have also been placed in Myrmecia . [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Lobosphaera". AlgaeBase . University of Galway . Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  2. See the NCBI webpage on Lobosphaera. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. Lee, Seungki; Lim, Se Ra; Jeong, Dae Gwin; Kim, Ji Hyung (2018). "Characterization of an Oleaginous Unicellular Green Microalga, Lobosphaera incisa (Reisigl, 1964) Strain K-1, Isolated from a Tidal Flat in the Yellow Sea, Republic of Korea". Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 2159. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02159 . PMC   6139321 . PMID   30250461.
  4. Ettl, Hanuš; Gärtner, Georg (2013). Syllabus der Boden-, Luft- und Flechtenalgen (in German) (2nd ed.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN   9783642394614.