Prasinoderma Explained

Prasinoderma is a genus of green algae in the phylum Prasinodermophyta.^[1] Both species in the genus are unicellular, but P. coloniale forms loose sticky colonies.^[2]

Classification

The genus contains two species:

• Prasinoderma coloniale Hasegawa & Chihara 1996
• Prasinoderma singularis Jouenne 2011^[2]

Notes and References

1. Linzhou Li. Sibo Wang. Hongli Wang. Sunil Kumar Sahu. Birger Marin. Haoyuan Li. Yan Xu. Hongping Liang. Zhen Li. Shifeng Chen. Tanja Reder. Zehra Çebi. Sebastian Wittek. Morten Petersen. Barbara Melkonian. Hongli Du. Huanming Yang. Jian Wang. Gane Ka-Shu Wong. Xun Xu. Xin Liu. Yves Van de Peer. Michael Melkonian. Huan Liu . 22 June 2020 . The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants . Nature Ecology & Evolution . 4 . 9 . 1220–1231 . 10.1038/s41559-020-1221-7 . free. 1854/LU-8667102. free.
2. Prasinoderma singularis sp. nov. (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta), a Solitary Coccoid Prasinophyte from the South-East Pacific Ocean . Fabien . Jouenne. Wenche . Eikrem . Florence . Le Gall . Dominique . Marie . Geir . Johnsend . Daniel . Vaulot . Protist . 162 . 70–84 . January 2011 . 10.1016/j.protis.2010.04.005 . 1 .