Glaucophyte

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Glaucophyta
Glaucocystis sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Division: Glaucophyta
Skuja 1948
Class
  • Glaucocystophyceae Schaffner 1922
Synonyms
  • Glaucocystophyta Kies & Kremer, 1986

The glaucophytes, also known as glaucocystophytes or glaucocystids, are a small group of unicellular algae found in freshwater and moist terrestrial environments,[1][2] less common today than they were during the Proterozoic.[3] The stated number of species in the group varies from about 14 to 26.[4][5][6] Together with the red algae (Rhodophyta) and the green algae plus land plants (Viridiplantae or Chloroplastida), they form the Archaeplastida.

The glaucophytes are of interest to biologists studying the evolution of chloroplasts as they may be similar to the original algal type that led to the red algae and green plants, i.e. glaucophytes may be basal Archaeplastida.[1][7][4]

Unlike red and green algae, glaucophytes only have asexual reproduction.[8]

Characteristics

The

fixed carbon in the cytosol.[12]

The most early-diverging genus is Cyanophora, which only has one or two plastids. When there are two, they are semi-connected.[13]

Glaucophytes have

flagella, which may have fine hairs and are anchored by a multilayered system of microtubules, both of which are similar to forms found in some green algae.[11]

Phylogeny

External

Together with red algae and Viridiplantae (green algae and land plants), glaucophytes form the Archaeplastida – a group of plastid-containing organisms that may share a unique common ancestor that established an endosymbiotic association with a cyanobacterium. The relationship among the three groups remains uncertain, although it is most likely that glaucophytes diverged first:[4]

Archaeplastida

Glaucophyta

The alternative, that glaucophytes and red algae form a clade, has been shown to be less plausible, but cannot be ruled out.[4]

Internal

The internal phylogeny of the glaucophytes and the number of genera and species varies considerably among taxonomic sources. A phylogeny of the Glaucophyta published in 2017 divided the group into three families, and includes five genera:[14]

Glaucophyta
Cyanophoraceae

Cyanophora

Gloeochaetaceae

Cyanoptyche

Gloeochaete

Glaucocystidaceae

Glaucocystopsis

Glaucocystis

Taxonomy

A 2019 list of the described glaucophyte species has the same three subdivisions, treated as orders, but includes a further five unplaced possible species, producing a total of between 14 and 19 possible species.[4]

As of March 2022, AlgaeBase divided glaucophytes into only two groups, placing Cyanophora in Glaucocystales rather than Cyanophorales (however the entry was dated 2011).[15] AlgaeBase included a total of 26 species in nine genera:[16]

  • Glaucocystales
    • Chalarodora Pascher – 1 species
    • Corynoplastis Yokoyama, J.L.Scott, G.C.Zuccarello, M.Kajikawa, Y.Hara & J.A.West – 1 species
    • Cyanophora Korshikov – 6 species
    • Glaucocystis Itzigsohn – 13 species
    • Glaucocystopsis Bourrelly – 1 species
    • Peliaina Pascher – 1 species
    • Strobilomonas Schiller – 1 species
  • Gloeochaetales
    • Cyanoptyche Pascher – 1 species
    • Gloeochaete Lagerheim – 1 species

None of the species of Glaucophyta is particularly common in nature.[1]

The glaucophytes were considered before as part of family Oocystaceae, in the order Chlorococcales.[17]

References

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  2. ^ Genomic Insights Into the Biology of Algae
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  5. ^ The monoplastidic bottleneck in algae and plant evolution | Journal of Cell Science
  6. ^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Glaucophyta". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
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  8. ISBN 978-0-19-958406-2
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  11. ^ a b Skuja, A. (1948). Taxonomie des Phytoplanktons einiger Seen in Uppland, Schweden. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 9(3): 1-399.Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Glaucophyta". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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  15. ^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Cyanophora". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  16. ^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. "Glaucophyta". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  17. ^ "Phycokey - Glaucocystis".


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