By Joseph Seckbach, David J. Chapman

This quantity covers the trendy biology and the speciation of the pink algae (Rhodophyta) from unicellular Cyanidia as much as macrocellular sea weeds. A workforce of peer reviewers has reviewed all chapters. The chapters describe various themes from cave algae from Atacama, Chile, to genomes of crimson algae. a few chapters care for the carbohydrates, physiological mechanisms, and realtionship among pink algae and neurodegenerative illness. different chapters take care of organellar - nuclear genes and taxonomic revision. Emphasis is put upon the rhodophytan chloroplast, its foundation, evolution, department equipment and pigmentation. The reader will locate during this ebook plenty of new info at the crimson algae.

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2004) used an environmental PCR survey to find the hidden biodiversity among Cyanidiophyceae and suggested six putative family-level taxa within the cyanidiophycean lineage; the Galdieria lineage (as Galdieria-A), the endolithic Galdieria (Galdieria-B), the mesophilic Cyanidium lineage, the Cyanidium lineage, the Cyanidioschyzon lineage, and the G.  2), which is essentially consistent with other molecular phylogenetic studies (Gross et al. , 2003). For example, the endolithic Galdieria-B was recently established as the new species Galdieria phlegrea by Pinto et al.

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