Pleurotaenium
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Charophyta |
| Class: | Zygnemophyceae |
| Order: | Desmidiales |
| Family: | Desmidiaceae |
| Genus: | Pleurotaenium |
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In taxonomy, Pleurotaenium is a genus of green algae, specifically of the Placoderm desmids (Desmidiaceae).[1]
Morphology
Long, cylindrical, bilaterally symmetrical unicells with blunt ends. Ring-like thickening in the central area where the two semicells join. In a good specimen, very delightful to look at due to obvious intracellular activity, especially at the ends.
Reproduction
Asexual: cells arise from the partitioned parent cell
Sexual: Conjugation (transmission of DNA through nucleus fusion to form a hypnozygote or zygospore, which is a term for a zygote that lies dormant until optimal conditions arise)
References
- ↑ See the NCBI webpage on Pleurotaenium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
External links
Scientific references
- PubMed references for Pleurotaenium
- PubMed Central references for Pleurotaenium
- Google Scholar references for Pleurotaenium
Scientific databases
- NCBI taxonomy page for Pleurotaenium
- Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Pleurotaenium
- Search Species2000 page for Pleurotaenium
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