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Cryptomonad
Selasa, 2026-08-11 00:18:17

The cryptomonads (sometimes called cryptophytes) are a group of algae and colorless flagellates, most of which have plastids. They are traditionally considered...

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Cryptophyte
Senin, 2026-03-02 23:55:22

Look up cryptophyte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cryptophyte may refer to: a plant which survives the unfavorable season underground or underwater...

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Chromista
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:37:14

Cavalier-Smith in 1981 to distinguish the stramenopiles, haptophytes, and cryptophytes. According to Cavalier-Smith, the kingdom originally consisted mostly...

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Goniomonas
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 09:47:02

plastidial complex, and is therefore considered primitive among Cryptophytes. Other Cryptophytes have bipartite tubular flagellar hairs, whereas Goniomonas...

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Chroomonas
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 12:03:05

Chroomonas is a genus of cryptophytes first described by Anton Hansgirg. It includes the species Chroomonas elegans, Chroomonas placoidea, Chroomonas baltica...

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Palpitomonas
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:12:09

to Cryptista, which includes other simple eukaryotic organisms like cryptophytes and katablepharids. As a bacterivore Palpitomonas plays an ecological...

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Raunkiær plant life-form
Minggu, 2026-07-05 21:31:53

Cryptophyte geophyte...

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Kingdom (taxonomy)
Senin, 2026-06-08 14:35:01

Bhattacharya, D. (2007). "Phylogenomic analysis supports the monophyly of cryptophytes and haptophytes and the association of Rhizaria with chromalveolates"...

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Chloroplast
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:45:01

Cryptophytes may have played a key role in the spreading of red algal based chloroplasts. Haptophytes are similar and closely related to cryptophytes...

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Algae
Jumat, 2026-08-14 04:29:33

(ochrophytes, cryptophytes, haptophytes and myzozoans). Two main models have been proposed to explain the order, both of which agree that cryptophytes obtained...

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Cryptophyceae
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 18:42:50

underneath the periplast, the cryptophyte-specific cell surrounding. Except for Chilomonas, which has leucoplasts, cryptophytes have one or two chloroplasts...

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Diaphoretickes
Minggu, 2026-08-16 03:15:56

hypotheses agree that cryptophytes were the first to obtain them, and the remaining groups obtained theirs by endosymbiosis with a cryptophyte. A third hypothesis...

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Photosynthesis
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 14:47:06

red and green algae—clade Archaeplastida (uni- and multicellular) The cryptophytes—clade Cryptista (unicellular) The haptophytes—clade Haptista (unicellular)...

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Rollomonadia
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:24:01

flagellates known as katablepharids, as well as the abundant cryptomonads (=cryptophytes), which comprise the heterotrophic Goniomonadea and the photosynthetic...

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Mesodinium rubrum
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 06:37:49

ciliate's principal food, the autotrophic algae called cryptomonads (or cryptophytes). Cryptomonads contain endosymbiont red algae whose internal chloroplasts...

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Flagellate
Minggu, 2026-05-03 16:46:19

P/S, hypermastigids, S) Eukaryota incertae sedis : haptophytes (F/A), cryptophytes (F/A), kathablepharids (F), Apusozoa (apusomondas, F, ancyromonads, F...

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Zooplankton
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:49:44

Dinophysis acuta acquires cryptophyte chloroplasts from its ciliate prey who in turn salvage chloroplasts from ingested cryptophytes. Stoecker et al. (2017)...

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Kleptoplasty
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:36:11

only a few days, while kleptoplastids in Dinophysis spp., taken from cryptophytes, can be stable for 2 months. In other dinoflagellates, kleptoplasty has...

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Hacrobia
Rabu, 2026-07-01 17:16:49

suggested that the Telonemia and centrohelids may form a clade with the cryptophytes and haptophytes. The picobiliphytes may belong in this group but are...

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Storeatula
Kamis, 2025-11-27 00:22:13

Storeatula is a genus of cryptophytes. It includes the species Storeatula major. Gilson PR, Adcock GJ, Howlett BJ, McFadden GI (February 1995). "Organisation...

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Phycoerythrin
Selasa, 2025-11-04 15:22:29

light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, present in cyanobacteria, red algae and cryptophytes, accessory to the main chlorophyll pigments responsible for photosynthesis...

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Chilomonas
Jumat, 2026-04-10 17:09:08

Chilomonas is a genus of freshwater cryptophytes, including the species Chilomonas paramecium. Members of this genus are osmotrophic heterotrophs possessing...

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Plagioselmis
Kamis, 2025-11-27 00:35:37

Plagioselmis is a genus of cryptophytes, including the species Plagioselmis punctata. Plagioselmis was first described by Butcher in 1967 as a saltwater...

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Falcomonas
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 19:27:15

Falcomonas is a genus of cryptophytes placed in the family Chroomonadaceae. It is a common organism in marine waters. Hill, David R. A. (1991). "Chroomonas...

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Archaeplastida
Minggu, 2026-08-16 14:57:35

of the remaining photosynthetic eukaryotes, such as heterokont algae, cryptophytes, haptophytes, and dinoflagellates, appear to be captured red algae. Perhaps...

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Photoautotroph
Kamis, 2025-07-31 06:40:27

Eukaryotic photoautotrophs include red algae, haptophytes, stramenopiles, cryptophytes, chlorophytes, and land plants. These organisms perform photosynthesis...

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Nucleomorph
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:53:37

nucleomorph also codes for genes that function in plastid maintenance. In cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes all DNA transfer between the nucleomorph and...

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Stratification (vegetation)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:23:48

layer consists of various herbaceous plants (therophytes, geophytes, cryptophytes, hemicryptophytes), dwarf shrubs (chamaephytes) as well as young shrubs...

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Laboea
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:51:11

a mixotrophic metabolicsm. If retains the chloroplasts from ingested cryptophytes to perform photosynthesis on which it is highly dependent. Under adequate...

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Alveolate
Rabu, 2026-08-05 02:13:22

velia, endosymbioses and the rhodoplex hypothesis—plastid evolution in cryptophytes, alveolates, stramenopiles, and haptophytes (CASH lineages)". Genome...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G
Selasa, 2026-05-12 23:26:58

cryptochrome, cryptogam, cryptogenic, cryptography, cryptology, cryptomonad, cryptophyte, cryptosystem, grot, grotesque, grotto cten- comb Greek κτείς, κτενός...

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Ejectosome
Kamis, 2023-11-09 04:20:29

Retrieved 2009-06-10. Cryptomonads = Goniomonas + plastid-containing cryptophytes. Hagedorn, M. et al. Infection by Tubercular Mycobacteria Is Spread by...

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Deep chlorophyll maximum
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:51:31

bodies of water. The DCM tends to harbour more flagellated organisms and cryptophytes, whereas the epilimnion layer tends to have a larger centric diatom abundance...

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Guillardia
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:18:48

as a model for other cryptophyte species. The genus was also used as a model to study periplast starch synthesis in cryptophytes, demonstrating that the...

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Geminigera
Kamis, 2026-02-19 13:50:43

was later cultured at temperatures between −1.8 and −2 °C. Like other cryptophytes, Geminigera is mixotrophic and feeds both on bacteria in the surrounding...

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Protist
Minggu, 2026-08-16 03:13:54

The most abundant groups in freshwater phytoplankton are golden algae, cryptophytes and dinoflagellates, whereas euglenids are the most abundant heterotrophs...

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Chroomonas elegans
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 12:04:36

Chroomonas elegans is a species of cryptophytes. The type locality is Lake Neusiedl, at the Austria-Hungarian border. Schiller 1957: 13, pl. 1: fig. 8...

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Rhinomonas
Kamis, 2025-11-27 00:24:13

Rhinomonas is a genus of cryptophytes. It includes the species Rhinomonas pauca. Gilson PR, Adcock GJ, Howlett BJ, McFadden GI (February 1995). "Organisation...

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Mesodinium
Senin, 2026-08-03 16:27:01

populations normally contain green plastids. The availability of suitable cryptophyte prey is important for bloom formation of plastidic Mesodinium species...

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Ciliate
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:17:25

; Hansen, P. J.; Haraguchi, L.; Haraguchi, L. (2020). "Dimorphism in cryptophytes-The case of Teleaulax amphioxeia/Plagioselmis prolonga and its ecological...

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Chromalveolata
Rabu, 2026-06-24 19:16:10

(plants in the broad sense). The katablepharids are closely related to the cryptophytes and the telonemids and centrohelids may be related to the haptophytes...

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Red algae
Minggu, 2026-08-16 11:57:29

chloroplast genome—were transferred to four distinct eukaryotic lineages: cryptophytes, haptophytes, ochrophytes, and myzozoans. As a result, it is estimated...

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Yeongil Bay
Jumat, 2026-07-31 06:55:51

"Water Quality Improvement Shifts the Dominant Phytoplankton Group From Cryptophytes to Diatoms in a Coastal Ecosystem". Frontiers in Marine Science. 1125...

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Bikont
Senin, 2026-08-03 12:12:14

Patrick J. (7 June 2012). "The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Geminigeraceae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 13:15:07

Geminigeraceae is a family of cryptophytes containing six genera. They are characterised by chloroplasts containing Cr-phycoerythrin 545, and an inner...

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Michael Melkonian
Selasa, 2026-03-10 09:14:58

systematics, diversity and evolution of algae with emphasis on green algae, cryptophytes, and euglenophytes but also heterotrophic protists, such as the Picozoa...

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Protist classification
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:08:19

171920.1. Sachs, Maria; Nitsche, Frank; Arndt, Hartmut (2025). "Cryptic Cryptophytes—Revision of the Genus Goniomonas". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology...

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Protozoa
Selasa, 2026-06-16 01:00:29

The ciliate Mesodinium rubrum retains functioning plastids from the cryptophyte algae on which it feeds, using them to nourish themselves by autotrophy...

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Chroomonas baltica
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 12:04:01

Chroomonas baltica is a species of cryptophyte first described by Julius Büttner in 1910, as Cyanomonas baltica. It would be reclassified to its current...

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Mastigoneme
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:21:35

of euglenid flagellates, while stiff hairs occur in stramenopile and cryptophyte protists. Stramenopile hairs are approximately 15 nm in diameter, and...

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Anton Hansgirg
Rabu, 2024-10-09 03:47:42

phycologist who described several new species of red algae, green algae, and cryptophytes, in Austria-Hungary between 1880 and 1905. Hansgirg studied from 1872...

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Algae DNA barcoding
Kamis, 2026-08-13 12:53:55

spacer Chrysophytes and Synurophytes SSU rDNA, rDNA ITS cox1 psaA, rbcL Cryptophytes SSU rDNA, LSU rDNA, rDNA ITS cox1 Rubisco spacer Bacillariophytes SSU...

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SecY protein
Rabu, 2025-05-28 10:01:17

chloroplast endoplasmic reticulum (CER) which is present in chromophyte and cryptophyte algae. SecY-related translocase InterPro: IPR014269 SecY proteins were...

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Vampyrellida
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 19:55:37

including chlorophyte and streptophyte green algae, diatoms, chrysophytes, cryptophytes, euglenids, heterotrophic flagellates, ciliate cysts, fungal hyphae and...

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Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Kamis, 2026-08-13 20:12:00

chlorophylls a and c (primarily chrysophytes and other stramenopiles, cryptophytes, and haptophytes) despite clear evidence that the group corresponded...

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Nutrient cycling in the Columbia River Basin
Senin, 2026-04-27 07:10:39

local primary production. M. rubra gets its red color from consuming cryptophytes, or algae, that contain a red pigment called phycoerythrin in their chloroplasts...

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List of sequenced protist genomes
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:56:03

Tanifuji G, Archibald JM (2012). "Nucleomorph genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Chroomonas mesostigmatica CCMP1168 reveals lineage-specific gene...

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Pyrenoid
Selasa, 2026-08-11 19:11:20

multiple endosymbiotic events (diatoms, dinoflagellates, coccolithophores, cryptophytes, chlorarachniophytes, and euglenozoa). Some algal groups, however, lack...

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C. elegans (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2025-10-15 12:03:11

C. elegans most commonly refers to the model round worm Caenorhabditis elegans. It may also refer to any of the species below. They are listed, first in...

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Reductive evolution
Jumat, 2026-07-17 06:37:52

plastid is engulfed by another protist. Examples include Guillardia, cryptophyte algae with a plastid obtained from a red alga, and many diatoms that...

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Paradise Lake (Washington)
Rabu, 2026-07-29 07:04:31

late May and in late September. Other species detected include several cryptophyte species and the diatom Asterionella formosa. Phosphorus content was found...

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Epibrassicasterol
Jumat, 2025-12-12 03:19:26

(24S)-24-Methylcholesta-5,22-dien-3B-ol as the Major Sterol of a Marine Cryptophyte and a Marine Primnesiophyte". Phytochemistry. 22 (2): 475–476. doi:10...

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Plant life-form
Kamis, 2025-02-06 18:17:33

herbaceous plants with periodic shoot reduction Hemicryptophytes Geophytes (Cryptophytes) Dc Annuals Therophytes Cb Plants that grow by supporting themselves...

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Quantum biology
Minggu, 2026-08-16 11:50:18

or 277 K). In that same year, experiments conducted on photosynthetic cryptophyte algae using two-dimensional photon echo spectroscopy yielded further...

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Marine microorganisms
Jumat, 2026-08-14 23:50:20

Dinophysis acuta acquire chloroplasts from its prey. "It cannot catch the cryptophytes by itself, and instead relies on ingesting ciliates such as the red Myrionecta...

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Cryptomonas
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:04:36

Sexual reproduction is not observed in this genus as many other genera of cryptophytes also do not reproduce sexually. Organisms are asymmetric with a transparent...

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Ipomoea oenotherae
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 19:37:28

Oenothera.[need quotation to verify] Ipomoea oenotherae is a succulent and a cryptophyte. Ipomoea oenotherae is a perennial succulent plant. It forms a fleshy...

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Alpine lake
Jumat, 2026-08-07 21:18:37

nanoplanktonic, mobile species including chrysophytes, dinoflagellates, and cryptophytes in the water column, with important contributions to photosynthesis also...

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Katablepharid
Minggu, 2026-08-02 17:31:12

Keeling, Patrick J. (2012). "The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Genome size
Jumat, 2026-07-24 09:24:35

nucleomorphs, enslaved nuclei, inside of the cell of two different algae, cryptophytes and chlorarachneans. Nucleomorphs are characterized by one of the smallest...

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Rastrimonas
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:30:10

Rastrimonas. Brugerolle, G. (2002). "Cryptophagus subtilis: a new parasite of cryptophytes affiliated with the Perkinsozoa lineage". Eur J Protistol. 37 (4): 379–90...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/C
Rabu, 2026-06-24 02:57:18

cryptochrome, cryptogam, cryptogenic, cryptography, cryptology, cryptomonad, cryptophyte, cryptosystem, grot, grotesque, grotto cten- comb Greek κτείς, κτενός...

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Marine protists
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:59:46

Dinophysis acuta acquire chloroplasts from its prey. "It cannot catch the cryptophytes by itself, and instead relies on ingesting ciliates such as the red Mesodinium...

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Alexandra Olaya-Castro
Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:32:40

fundamental role of quantized vibrations in coherent light harvesting by cryptophyte algae. (2012) The Journal of chemical physics 137 (17), 174109 EJ O’Reilly...

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Massonia
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:46:37

genus Whiteheadia has been merged into Massonia. It is classed as a cryptophyte. The genus is named for Francis Masson, a Scottish botanist, gardener...

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Optogenetics
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:10:07

(i.e. hyperpolarization), an anion channelrhodopsin discovered in the cryptophyte algae species Guillardia theta (named GtACR1). can be used. GtACR1 is...

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Anion-conducting channelrhodopsin
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:05:06

anion-conducting channelrhodopsins (ACRs) were subsequently identified in cryptophyte algae. The crystal structure of the natural GtACR1 has recently been...

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Cryptospore
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 10:09:14

Morris, J. L.; Richardson, J. B.; Kenrick, P. (2014). "Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras" (PDF). New Phytologist...

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Tulipa saxatilis
Senin, 2025-12-01 00:09:29

The stems can reach a height of up to 25 centimeters. This geophyte (cryptophyte) forms bulbs as resting buds. The egg-shaped bulbs have a rough shell...

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Perkinsea
Minggu, 2026-08-16 17:14:12

and Maranthos are parasites of dinoflagellates. Rastrimonas parasitize cryptophyte algae. Xcellidae, Perkinsidae and Acrocoelus are parasites of various...

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Centrohelid
Senin, 2026-06-29 00:14:39

Patrick J. (7 June 2012). "The evolutionary history of haptophytes and cryptophytes: phylogenomic evidence for separate origins". Proceedings of the Royal...

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Mesodinium chamaeleon
Jumat, 2026-03-06 21:40:10

Johnson, Matthew D, "The Genetic Diversity of Mesodinium and Associated Cryptophytes", 2016, Vol.7, p.2017-2017. Moeller, Holly, "Prey type constrains growth...

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List of sequenced plastomes
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:56:01

Bhattacharya D, Yi G, Yoon HS, Shin W (July 2017). "Evolutionary Dynamics of Cryptophyte Plastid Genomes". Genome Biology and Evolution. 9 (7): 1859–1872. doi:10...

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Pyrenomonadaceae
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 18:57:44

1913. Butcher's highly influential 1967 phylogeny of all then-known Cryptophytes did not recognize Rhodomonas, reclassifying all previously described...

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Twintron
Rabu, 2025-09-10 05:54:31

Khan, H; Archibald, JM (May 2008). "Lateral transfer of introns in the cryptophyte plastid genome". Nucleic Acids Research. 36 (9): 3043–53. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn095...

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Albuca bracteata
Minggu, 2025-09-21 05:30:33

Seeds are oblong with dimensions of 4 by 1.5 mm. Albuca bracteata is a cryptophyte, as the foliage dies back during drought periods. Albuca bracteata was...

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Hemiselmis
Kamis, 2026-05-14 20:59:10

"Chromophore composition of the phycobiliprotein Cr-PC577 from the cryptophyte Hemiselmis pacifica". Photosynthesis Research. 122 (3): 293–304. doi:10...

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Biliprotein
Sabtu, 2024-11-16 20:00:58

blue-green algae) and algae groups such as rhodophyta (red algae) and cryptophytes. Major phycobiliproteins include variations of phycocyanin (blue-pigment)...

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Extrusome
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 23:26:00

Protozoology. 35: 46–51. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1988.tb04074.x. "X - 10 Cryptophyte With Trichocyst Electron Micrograph". 2011-06-13. Archived from the original...

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Glossary of protistology
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:37:15

they are absent in P. bilix, the most basal cryptist. cryptomonad Also cryptophyte. Any member of Cryptomonada, a group of aquatic flagellated algae comprising...

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Floridean starch
Senin, 2026-07-06 08:32:39

polymers similar to floridean starch, for example, dinoflagellates and cryptophytes. The presence of floridean starch-like storage in some apicomplexan parasites...

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Rhodomonas
Kamis, 2025-11-27 06:47:10

Parks N, Kozera C, et al. (August 2007). "Plastid genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina CCMP1319: lateral transfer of putative DNA replication...

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Dinophysis
Minggu, 2025-06-08 21:10:50

cryptomonad origin, since the plastids are identical to those of the cryptophyte Teleaulax amphioxeia. In this case, the process consisted in the engulfment...

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Protist locomotion
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:19:06

flagella for locomotion and sometimes as feeding and sensory organelle. Cryptophytes All dinoflagellates and nanoflagellates (choanoflagellates, silicoflagellates...

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Bigelowiella
Rabu, 2026-07-08 03:17:35

of several other lineages of secondary endosymbiosis, for example the cryptophyte Guillardia theta, wherein the phagosomal membrane is continuous with...

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Dinophysis acuminata
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 12:27:41

; Stoecker, Diane K. (2007). "Retention of transcriptionally active cryptophyte nuclei by the ciliate Myrionecta rubra". Nature. 445 (7126): 426–428...

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Alexandrium (dinoflagellate)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:58:05

heterotrophic bacteria and cyanobacteria. A. tamarense ingests haptophytes, cryptophytes, small diatoms, and Heterosigma akashiwo. A. tamarense has also been...

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Gunnera magellanica
Selasa, 2025-12-16 10:19:56

perennates as under-ground rhizomes, and is therefore classified as a cryptophyte. Gunnera magellanica was first described by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in...

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DNA polymerase III subunit gamma/tau
Minggu, 2023-01-29 05:57:59

Bowman S, Archibald JM (August 2007). "Plastid genome sequence of the cryptophyte alga Rhodomonas salina CCMP1319: lateral transfer of putative DNA replication...

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Karyoklepty
Rabu, 2025-05-28 15:46:19

David; et al. (25 January 2007). "Retention of transcriptionally active cryptophyte nuclei by the ciliate Myrionecta rubra". Nature. 445 (7126). Nature Publishing...

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