Aureococcus

Aureococcus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Gyrista
Subphylum: Ochrophytina
Class: Dictyochophyceae
Order: Pelagomonadales
Family: Pelagomonadaceae
Genus: Aureococcus
Species:
A. anophagefferens
Binomial name
Aureococcus anophagefferens
Hargraves & Sieburth, 1988

Aureococcus anophagefferens is a species of heterokont alga. Its cells have a single chloroplast, nucleus, and mitochondrion and an unusual exocellular polysaccharide-like layer. It causes harmful algal blooms.[1][2] It is the only species in the genus Aureococcus.

  1. ^ Gobler, C. J.; Berry, D. L.; Dyhrman, S. T.; Wilhelm, S. W.; Salamov, A.; Lobanov, A. V.; Zhang, Y.; Collier, J. L.; Wurch, L. L.; Kustka, A. B.; Dill, B. D.; Shah, M.; VerBerkmoes, N. C.; Kuo, A.; Terry, A.; Pangilinan, J.; Lindquist, E. A.; Lucas, S.; Paulsen, I. T.; Hattenrath-Lehmann, T. K.; Talmage, S. C.; Walker, E. A.; Koch, F.; Burson, A. M.; Marcoval, M. A.; Tang, Y.-Z.; LeCleir, G. R.; Coyne, K. J.; Berg, G. M.; Bertrand, E. M.; Saito, M. A.; Gladyshev, V. N.; Grigoriev, I. V. (2011). "Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (11): 4352–4357. Bibcode:2011PNAS..108.4352G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1016106108. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3060233. PMID 21368207.
  2. ^ Sieburth, John McN.; Johnson, Paul W.; Hargraves, Paul E. (1988). "Ultrastructure and Ecology of Aureococcus Anophageferens Gen. Et Sp. Nov. (Chrysophyceae): The Dominant Picoplankter During a Bloom in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Summer 1985". Journal of Phycology. 24 (3): 416–425. Bibcode:1988JPcgy..24..416S. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1988.tb04485.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 84094269.