Yellow-green algae

Yellow-green algae
Botydium granulatum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Chromalveolata
Phylum: Heterokontophyta
Class: Xanthophyceae
Allorge, 1930,[1] emend. Fritsch, 1935[2]
Synonyms
  • Heterokontae Luther, 1899[3]
  • Heterochloridia Pascher, 1912
  • Tribophyceae Hibberd, 1981[4]
  • Heteromonadida Leedale, 1983[5]
  • Xanthophyta Hibberd, 1990[6]

Yellow-green algae or xanthophytes are an important group of heterokont algae. Most live in freshwater, but some are found in marine and soil habitats. They vary from single-celled flagellates to simple colonial and filamentous forms. Xanthophyte chloroplasts contain the photosynthetic pigments Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll c, β-Carotene, and the carotenoid diadinoxanthin.[7] Unlike other heterokonts, their chloroplasts do not contain fucoxanthin, which accounts for their lighter colour. Its storage polysaccharide is chrysolaminarin.[7] Xanthophyte cell walls are produced of cellulose and hemicellulose.[7] They appear to be the closest relatives of the brown algae.

Classifications

The species now placed in Xanthophyceae were formerly included in the Chlorophyceae.[8] In 1899, Luther created the group Heterokontae for green algae with unequal flagella. Pascher (1914) included the Heterokontae in Chrysophyta. In 1930, Allorge renamed the group as Xanthophyceae.

The monadoid (unicellular flagellates) and also sometimes the amoeboid species have been included by some authors in Protozoa or in Protista,[9][10] as order Heterochloridina (e.g., Doflein and Reichenow, 1927-1929[11]), as class Xanthomonadina, with orders Heterochloridea and Rhizochloridea (e.g., Deflandre, 1956[12]), as order Heterochlorida (e.g., Hall, 1953,[13] Honigberg et al., 1964[14]), as order Heteromonadida (e.g., Leedale, 1983[15]), or as subclass Heterochloridia (e.g., Puytorac et al., 1987[16]). These groups are called ambiregnal protists, as names for these have been published under either or both of the ICZN and the ICN.

Xanthophyceae have been divided into the following four orders in some classification systems:

Lüther (1899)

Classification according to Lüther (1899):[18][19]

Pascher (1912)

Classification according Pascher (1912):[20]

Fritsch (1935)

Fritsch (1935) recognizes the following orders in the class Xanthophyceae:[21]

Smith (1938)

In the classification of Smith (1938), there are six orders in the class Xanthophyceae, placed in the division Chrysophyta:

Pascher (1939)

Pascher (1939) recognizes 6 classes in Heterokontae:[22]

Copeland (1956)

Copeland (1956) treated the group as order Vaucheriacea:[23]

Ettl (1978), van den Hoek et al. (1995)

In a classification presented by van den Hoek, Mann and Jahns (1995), based on the level of organization of the thallus, there are seven orders:

These are the same orders of the classification of Ettl (1978),[24] an updated version of the classic work by Pascher (1939). Ultrastructural and molecular studies shows that the Mischococcales might be paraphyletic, and the Tribonematales and Botrydiales polyphyletic,[25] and suggests two orders at most be used until the relationships within the division are sorted.[26]

Maistro et al. (2009)

Informal groups, according to Maistro et al. (2009):[27]

Unicellular flagellates, amoeboid and palmelloid taxa were not included in this study.

Adl et al. (2005, 2012)

According to Adl et al. (2005, 2012):[26][28]

See also

Wikispecies has information related to: Xanthophyceae

References

  1. ↑ Allorge, P (1930). "Heterocontées ou Xanthophycées?". Rev. Alg. 5: 230.
  2. ↑ Fritsch, F.E. (1935) The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae. Volume I. Introduction, Chlorophyceae, Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Dinophyceae, Chloromonadineae, Euglenineae, Colourless Flagellata. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Lüther, A. (1899). "Über Chlorosaccus eine neue Gattung der Süsswasseralgen". Bihang til Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24: 1–22. OCLC 178060545.
  4. ↑ Hibberd, D. J. (February 1981). "Notes on the taxonomy and nomenclature of the algal classes Eustigmatophyceae and Tribophyceae (synonym Xanthophyceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 82 (2): 93–119. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1981.tb00954.x.
  5. ↑ Leedale, G.F. (1985). "Order 5, Heteromonadida Leedale, 1983". In Lee, John J.; Hutner, Seymour Herbert; Bovee, Eugene C. An illustrated Guide to Protozoa. Lawrence, Kansas: Society of Protozoologists. pp. 70–.
  6. ↑ Hiberd, D. J. (1990). "Phylum Xanthophyta". In Margulis, L.; Corliss, J. O.; Melkonian, M. et al. Handbook of Protoctista. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers. pp. 686–97.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Stace, Clive A. (1991). Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-42785-2.
  8. ↑ Chapman, V. J. An Introduction to the Study of Algae. University Press, Cambridge; The Macmillan Company, New York, 1941, p. 18, .
  9. ↑ Copeland (1956), p. 63
  10. ↑ Fernández-Galiano, D (1990). "Las nuevas clasificaciones de los organismos eucarióticos unicelulares. Protistología versus Protozoología" (PDF). Rev. R. Soc. Esp. Hist Nat., (Secc. Biol.) 85 (1-4): 107–125.
  11. ↑ Doflein, F. & Reichenow, E. 1927-1929. Lehrbuch der Protozoenkunde, 5th ed, G. Fischer, Jena. 1262 p.
  12. ↑ Deflandre, G. (1952). In: Grassé, P.-P. (Ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Vol. 1, fasc. 1. Phylogénie. Protozoaries: Generalités, Flagellés. Masson et Cie, Paris. pp. 212, 217, 220.
  13. ↑ Hall, R.P., 1953. Protozoology. Prentice-Hall, New York, ,
  14. ↑ Honigberg, B.M.; Balamuth, W.; Bovee, E.C.; Corliss, J.O.; Gojdics, M.; Hall, R.P.; Kudo, R.R.; Levine, N.D.; Loeblich, A.R.Jr.; Weiser, J.; Wenrich, D.H. (1964). "A revised classification of the phylum Protozoa". Journal of Protozoology 11 (1): 7–20.
  15. ↑ Leedale, G.F. (1985). "Order 5, Heteromonadida Leedale, 1983". In Lee, John J.; Hutner, Seymour Herbert; Bovee, Eugene C. An illustrated Guide to Protozoa. Lawrence, Kansas: Society of Protozoologists. pp. 70–.
  16. ↑ Puytorac, P. de, Grain, J., Mignot, J.P. Précis de protistologie. Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, 1987. 581 p.
  17. ↑ Christensen, T. 1987. Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 4 Tribophyceae (Xanthophyceae). British Museum (Natural History), London ISBN 0-565-00980-X
  18. ↑ Lüther, A (1899). "Über Chlorosaccus eine neue Gattung der Süsswasseralgen". Bihang til Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 24: 1–22.
  19. ↑ Pascher (1912), p. 9, .
  20. ↑ Pascher, A (1912). "[1913]. Zur Gliederung der Heterokonten (Kieine Beiträge zur Kenntnis unserer Mikroflora 3).". Hedwigia 53: 6–22.
  21. ↑ Fritsch, F.E. (1935) The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae. Volume I. Introduction, Chlorophyceae. Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Dinophyceae, Chloromonadineae, Euglenineae, Colourless Flagellata. Vol. I, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, .
  22. ↑ Pascher, A., 1939. Heterokonten. In: Rabenhorsts Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Aufl. 2 Bd. XI. Leipzig: Akad. Verlagsges (1937–1939). p. 204, .
  23. ↑ Copeland, H. F. (1956). The Classification of Lower Organisms. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, pp. 63-67, .
  24. ↑ Ettl, H., 1978. Xanthophyceae. In: Ettl, H., Gerloff, J., Heynig, H. (Eds.), Süsswasserflora von Mitteleuropa, Bd. 3. 1. Teil. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, pp. 1–530.
  25. ↑ Negrisolo, E. et al. (2004). "Morphological convergence characterizes the evolution of Xanthophyceae (Heterokontophyta): evidence from nuclear SSU rDNA and plastidial rbcL genes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 156–170.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Adl SM, Simpson AG, Farmer MA et al. (2005). "The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52 (5): 399–451. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00053.x. PMID 16248873.
  27. ↑ Maistro S, Broady PA, Andreoli C, Negrisolo E (August 2009). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of Xanthophyceae (Stramenopiles, Chromalveolata)". Protist 160 (3): 412–26. doi:10.1016/j.protis.2009.02.002. PMID 19386545.
  28. ↑ Adl SM, Simpson AG, Lane CE et al. (September 2012). "The revised classification of eukaryotes". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 59 (5): 429–93. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.2012.00644.x. PMC 3483872. PMID 23020233.