Eustigmatophyceae

Toward Modern Classification of Eustigmatophytes, Including the Description of Neomonodaceae Fam. Nov. and Three New Genera1

“…G), as previously reported for other members of the eustigmatophyte class (Hibberd and Leedale , Santos and Leedale , Santos , Eliáš et al. ). Its lipidic nature was hypothesized by Hibberd (), and a possible relation with lipid globules released from the chloroplast in Trachydiscus minutus has been considered (Přibyl et al.…”

“…The sequences were aligned with MAFFT 7.429 (Katoh and Frith , Katoh and Standley ), using the “Add” option and a preexisting master alignment of ochrophyte 18S rRNA gene sequences manually curated to take into account the conserved secondary structure of 18S rRNA molecules (Eliáš et al. ). Redundant sequences were removed in BioEdit version 7.0.5 (Hall ) and the resulting final alignment was used in two different analyses.…”

“…, Eliáš et al. ). Eustigmatophytes are coccoid algae, solitary or in loose colonies, reproducing via autosporogenesis or, occasionally in some taxa, by zoospores with unique features (for a review see Eliáš et al.…”

“…Eustigmatophytes are coccoid algae, solitary or in loose colonies, reproducing via autosporogenesis or, occasionally in some taxa, by zoospores with unique features (for a review see Eliáš et al. ). Eustigmatophytes occur primarily in freshwater and soil, but research on the class has been concentrated on the primarily marine genera Nannochloropsis and Microchloropsis (Fawley et al.…”

“…Eustigmatophytes are thus now known to encompass two deeply separated principal lineages, one corresponding to the order Eustigmatales (Hibberd ) and the other comprised of eustigmatophytes recognized or described only after Hibberd's seminal work (Eliáš et al. ). This second putative order not formalized under the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants is presently referred to as the clade Goniochloridales and validated under the PhyloCode (Fawley et al.…”