Pelagomonas

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Pelagomonas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Sar
Clade: Stramenopiles
Division: Ochrophyta
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pelagomonadales
Family: Pelagomonadaceae
Genus: Pelagomonas
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders
Species:
P. calceolata
Binomial name
Pelagomonas calceolata
R.A.Andersen & G.W.Saunders

Pelagomonas is a genus of heterokont algae. It is a monotypic genus and includes a single species, Pelagomonas calceolata [1] [2] which is a unicellular flagellate organism, a ubiquitous constituent of marine picoplankton. [3] [4] It is an ultra-planktonic marine alga.

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Description

Pelagomonas calceolata is uniflagellate, about 1.5 × 3 μm in size. Microtubular roots, striated roots and a second basal body are absent. A thin organic theca surrounds most of the cell. There is a single chloroplast with a girdle lamella and a single, dense mitochondrion with tubular cristae. A single Golgi body with swelled cisternae lies beneath the flagellum, and each cell has an ejectile organelle that putatively releases a cylindrical structure. A vacuole, or cluster of vacuoles, contains the putative carbohydrate storage product. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Pelagomonas". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  2. ↑ Céline Dimier; Saviello Giovanni; Tramontano Ferdinando; Christophe Brunet (2009). "Comparative ecophysiology of the xanthophyll cycle in six marine phytoplanktonic species". Protist . 160 (3): 397–411. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.03.001. PMID   19375387.
  3. ↑ Wetherbee R.; Gornik S. G.; Grant B.; Waller R. F. (2015). "Andersenia, a genus of filamentous, sand-dwelling Pelagophyceae from southeastern Australia". Phycologia. 54 (1): 35–48. Bibcode:2015Phyco..54...35W. doi:10.2216/14-107.1. S2CID   84982713.
  4. 1 2 Andersen, Robert A.; Sounders, Gary W.; Paskind, Michael P.; Sexton, Julianne P. (1993). "Ultrastructure and 18Srrna Gene Sequence Forpelagomonas Calceolatagen. Et Sp. Nov. And the Description of a New Algal Class, the Pelagophyceae Classis Nov.1". Journal of Phycology. 29 (5): 701–715. Bibcode:1993JPcgy..29..701A. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1993.00701.x . ISSN   0022-3646. S2CID   86440314.

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