Pyrenomonas

Pyrenomonas
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Chromalveolata
Phylum: Cryptophyta
Class: Cryptophyceae
Order: Pyrenomonadales
Family: Pyrenomonadaceae
Genus: Pyrenomonas
Santore

Pyrenomonas is a genus of cryptomonad.

One species is Pyrenomonas helgolandii.[1][2]

Pyrenomonas salina was characterized in 1990,[3] but has since been renamed to Rhodomonas salina.[4]

References

  1. ^ Tanifuji G, Erata M, Ishida K, Onodera N, Hara Y (May 2006). "Diversity of secondary endosymbiont-derived actin-coding genes in cryptomonads and their evolutionary implications". J. Plant Res. 119 (3): 205–15. doi:10.1007/s10265-006-0263-5. ISBN 1026500602635. PMID 16570126. 
  2. ^ Stibitz TB, Keeling PJ, Bhattacharya D (November 2000). "Symbiotic origin of a novel actin gene in the cryptophyte Pyrenomonas helgolandii". Mol. Biol. Evol. 17 (11): 1731–8. PMID 11070060. http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11070060. 
  3. ^ Hansmann P, Eschbach S (August 1990). "Isolation and preliminary characterization of the nucleus and the nucleomorph of a cryptomonad, Pyrenomonas salina". Eur. J. Cell Biol. 52 (2): 373–8. PMID 2081536. 
  4. ^ "The Rhodomonas salina mitochondrial genome: bacteria-like operons, compact gene arrangement and complex repeat region -- Hauth et al. 33 (14): 4433 -- Nucleic Acids Research". http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/14/4433#B15. Retrieved 2009-06-24.