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Cyanoptyche Pascher 1929; one of five species descriptions is currently accepted taxonomically (Guiry and Guiry 2014).Order Glaucocystales; Family Glaucocystaceae
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Cyanoptyche gloeocystis f. dispersa (Geitler) Starmach is a palmelloid colonial glaucophyte that contains prokaryotic blue-green endocytobionts (cyanelles) instead of chloroplasts. The periphery of the host cell shows a peculiar lacunae system with underlying microtubules. Vegetative cells have two rudimentary flagella. Zoospores are dorsiventrally shaped with two heterokont and heterodynamic flagella that originate from a subapical depression. This depression can also be seen in vegetative cells. Both flagella have non-tubular mastigonemes (Kies 1989).
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Guiry, M.D. and G.M. Guiry 2014. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 12 December 2014. Kies, L. 1989. Ultrastructure of Cyanoptyche gloeocystis f. dispersa (Glaucocystophyceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution 164(1):65-73. Dedicated to Lothar Geitler on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Pascher, A. 1929. Studien uber symbiosen. Uber einige Endosymbiosen von Blaualgen in Einzellern. Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 71: 386-462. |
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