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CHLOROPLAST PIGMENTS OF CHLOROMONADOPHYCEAE
Author(s) -
Chapman David J.,
Haxo F. T.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1966.tb04599.x
Subject(s) - biology , chloroplast , evolutionary biology , computational biology , botany , genetics , gene
SUMMARY The chloroplast pigments of 2 species of Chloro‐monadophyceae have been examined. Both Gonyo‐stomum semen and Vacuolaria virescens possessed only one chlorophyll, chlorophyll a. Gonyostomum contained 4 carotenoids, but not fucoxanthin and peridinin. Vacuolaria also possessed 4 carotenoids which have been identified as β‐carotene and the 3 xanthophylls commonly found in the Xanthophyceae (as represented by Tribonema aequale). These are antheraxanthin, lutein monoepoxide, and an hydroxy lutein monoepoxide‐like xanthophyll. The taxonomic significance of these findings, the first for the Chloromonadophyceae, is discussed.