Galdieria partita

Galdieria partita
Galdieria partita cell. n: nucleus; c: chloroplast
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Clade: Archaeplastida
Division: Rhodophyta
Class: Cyanidiophyceae
Order: Cyanidiales
Family: Galdieriaceae
Genus: Galdieria
Species:
G. partita
Binomial name
Galdieria partita
O.Yu.Sentsova, 1991

Galdieria partita is a species of extremophilic red algae that lives in acidic hot springs.[1] It is the only unicellular species of red algae known to reproduce sexually.[2] It was discovered in 1894 by Josephine Elizabeth Tilden from Yellowstone National Park in the western United States.[3] Originally described as a specides of green algae, Chroococcus varium, its scientific name and taxonomic position were revised several times. In 1959, Mary Belle Allen produced the pure culture which has been distributed as the "Allen strain".[4]

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  2. ^ Hirooka, Shunsuke; Itabashi, Takeshi; Ichinose, Takako M.; Onuma, Ryo; Fujiwara, Takayuki; Yamashita, Shota; Jong, Lin Wei; Tomita, Reiko; et al. (2022). "Life cycle and functional genomics of the unicellular red alga Galdieria for elucidating algal and plant evolution and industrial use". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (41): e2210665119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2210665119. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 9565259. PMID 36194630.
  3. ^ Hansen, Gayle I. (1996). "Josephine Elizabeth Tilden (1869-1957)". In Garbary, David J.; Wynne, Michael James (eds.). Prominent Phycologists of the 20th Century. Lancelot Press. pp. 185–186. ISBN 978-0-88999-636-6.
  4. ^ Seckbach, Joseph (1991). "Systematic problems with Cyanidium caldarium and Galdieria sulphuraria and their implications for molecular biology studies". Journal of Phycology. 27 (6): 794–796. doi:10.1111/j.0022-3646.1991.00794.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 84476554.