High-value biochemical products & applications of freshwater eukaryotic microalgae

C Russell, C Rodriguez, M Yaseen - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
A shift in public perception of the health and nutritional benefits of organic supplements and
skin care products has led to a surge in high-value products being extracted from …

Diversity of 'simple'multicellular eukaryotes: 45 independent cases and six types of multicellularity

Ł Lamża - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multicellularity evolved multiple times in the history of life, with most reviewers agreeing that
it appeared at least 20 times in eukaryotes. However, a specific list of multicellular …

Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome of Porphyra umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)

SH Brawley, NA Blouin, E Ficko-Blean… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Porphyra umbilicalis (laver) belongs to an ancient group of red algae (Bangiophyceae), is
harvested for human food, and thrives in the harsh conditions of the upper intertidal zone …

Redefining Pyropia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta): Four New Genera, Resurrection of Porphyrella and Description of Calidia pseudolobata sp. nov. From China

LE Yang, YY Deng, GP Xu, S Russell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The cosmopolitan red algal genus Pyropia sensu lato is the most speciose of the bladed
Bangiales genera. In a major revision of the Bangiales, Pyropia was resurrected from …

How many species of algae are there? A reprise. Four kingdoms, 14 phyla, 63 classes and still growing

MD Guiry - Journal of Phycology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract To date (1 November 2023), the online database AlgaeBase has documented
50,589 species of living algae and 10,556 fossil species here referred to four kingdoms …

The new red algal subphylum Proteorhodophytina comprises the largest and most divergent plastid genomes known

SA Muñoz-Gómez, FG Mejía-Franco, K Durnin, M Colp… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Red algal plastid genomes are often considered ancestral and evolutionarily stable, and
thus more closely resembling the last common ancestral plastid genome of all …

Revised classification of the Cyanidiophyceae based on plastid genome data with descriptions of the Cavernulicolales ord. nov. and Galdieriales ord. nov …

SI Park, CH Cho, C Ciniglia, TY Huang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Cyanidiophyceae, an extremophilic red algal class, is distributed worldwide in extreme
environments. Species grow either in acidic hot environments or in dim light conditions …

Extremophilic red algae as models for understanding adaptation to hostile environments and the evolution of eukaryotic life on the early earth

J Van Etten, CH Cho, HS Yoon… - Seminars in cell & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Extremophiles have always garnered great interest because of their exotic lifestyles and
ability to thrive at the physical limits of life. In hot springs environments, the Cyanidiophyceae …

Beyond the Symbiodiniaceae: diversity and role of microeukaryotic coral symbionts

AM Bonacolta, BA Weiler, T Porta-Fitó, M Sweet… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Many corals form intimate symbioses with photosynthetic dinoflagellates in the family
Symbiodiniaceae. These symbioses have been deeply studied, particularly in reef-forming …

Xylans of red and green algae: what is known about their structures and how they are synthesised?

YSY Hsieh, PJ Harris - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Xylans with a variety of structures have been characterised in green algae, including
chlorophytes (Chlorophyta) and charophytes (in the Streptophyta), and red algae …