Zoochlorella
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| Zoochlorella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Archaeplastida |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chlorophyceae |
| Order: | Chlorococcales |
| Family: | Oocystaceae |
| Genus: | Zoochlorella K. Brandt, 1881 |
Zoochlorella is a genus of alga comprising one species, Z. parasitica. The term Zoochlorella (plural zoochlorellae) is sometimes used to refer to any green alga that lives symbiotically within the body of a freshwater or marine invertebrate or protozoan. Zoochlorellae and zooxanthellae may both be found in the Pacific coast sea anemones Anthopleura elegantissima and Anthopleura xanthogrammica.
The analogy between Zoochlorella and Chromatophores has been used by the botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski in 1905 to argue about the symbiotic origin of the chromatophores.[1]
Zoochlorellae are responsible for the greenish color of sea anemone tentacles.
[edit] References
- Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Zoochlorella". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=43452. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
- ^ Martin W, and Kowallik, K V. 1999, Annnotated English translation of Mereschkowsky's 1905 paper 'Über Nature und Ursprung der Chromatophoren im Pflanzenreich'. Eur. J. Phycol., 34: 287-295. Free access to the article
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