Systematics and Evolution of the Algae

Melkonian, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-68752-5_19

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“…However, the fact that all Prorocentrales are provided with chloroplasts and present a great morphological uniformity, unlike the other orders of dinoflagellates, whose members show a great variety of nutrition, ranging from autotrophy to heterotrophy, has suggested that Prorocentrales could be an advanced group rather than a primitive one (Dodge 1983). In fact the most recent studies on the origin of photosynthetic dinoflagellates hypothesize that the ancestral forms were phagotrophic not photosynthetic organisms which obtained chloroplasts by endosymbiosis (Tomas and Cox 1973, Steidinger and Cox 1980, Melkonian 1982,…”

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The Importance of Flagellar Arrangement and Insertion in the Interpretation of the Theca of Prorocentrum (Dinophyceae)

Honsell¹,

Talarico²

1985

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The theca and the flagella of the marine dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum were studied by means of scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The relative positions of emergence of the flagella, the spatial conformation of the "transverse" flagellum and its characteristic arrangement in an anti-clockwise circle suggest new considerations on the construction of the theca of this species. A new interpretation of the theca is proposed and discussed in relation to the previous ones, considering evolutionary implications.

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