Chloropicon sieburthii
| Chloropicon sieburthii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Chloropicophyceae |
| Order: | Chloropicales |
| Family: | Chloropicaceae |
| Genus: | Chloropicon |
| Species: | C. sieburthii
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| Binomial name | |
| Chloropicon sieburthii Lopes dos Santos & Eikrem, 2017
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Chloropicon sieburthii is a species of marine chlorophyte algae, and is the type species of Chloropicon.
Discovery
Chloropicon sieburthii was described in 2017, alongside a number of closely related Chloropicon species and Chloroparvula species.[1] It was discovered in the equatorial Pacific Ocean at a depth of 120 meters. It was named in honor of John Sieburth for his work on electron microscopy of marine picoeukaryotes.[1]
Description
Chloropicon sieburthii is unicellular, with a slightly irregular coccoid shape, a smooth cell surface, and a diameter ranging between 2–4 µm.[1] Cells contain one mitochondria and one crescent-shaped chloroplast. No flagellum is present. Thylakoids have been seen alone or in stacks of three.[1]
Ecology
Chloropicon sieburthii has been recorded as a prey species of the Northern Pacific seastar.[2]
Phylogeny
Chloropicon sieburthii is believed to be most closely related to Chloropicon roscoffensis and Chloropicon primus based on similarities of their genomes, plastomes, and mitogenomes.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e Lopes dos Santos, Adriana; Pollina, Thibaut; Gourvil, Priscillia; Corre, Erwan; Marie, Dominique; Garrido, José Luis; Rodríguez, Francisco; Noël, Mary-Hélène; Vaulot, Daniel; Eikrem, Wenche (2017-10-25). "Chloropicophyceae, a new class of picophytoplanktonic prasinophytes". Scientific Reports. 7 (1): 14019. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12412-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 5656628.
- ^ Ellis, Morgan (2022). Invasive species ecology of the Northern Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis) (PDF) (PhD thesis). Deakin University.
- ^ Turmel, Monique; Lopes dos Santos, Adriana; Otis, Christian; Sergerie, Roxanne; Lemieux, Claude (2019-04-01). "Tracing the Evolution of the Plastome and Mitogenome in the Chloropicophyceae Uncovered Convergent tRNA Gene Losses and a Variant Plastid Genetic Code". Genome Biology and Evolution. 11 (4): 1275–1292. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz074. hdl:10356/105927. ISSN 1759-6653.