Platymonas impellucida sp.nov. from Puerto RicoMcLachlan, J. and Parke, M. (1967) Platymonas impellucida sp.nov. from Puerto Rico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 47 (3). pp. 723-733. Full text available as:
AbstractThe morphology and microanatomy of Platymonas impellucida sp.nov. have been investigated using light and electron microscopes and unusual stages of cell division studied. The anatomical features closely resemble those recently described for Platymonas convolutae (cf. Parke & Manton, 1967). As in that species the pyrenoid is penetrated from many directions by cytoplasmic canaliculi lined with the double plastid membrane but unlike that species a starch shell is notdeveloped around the pyrenoid. In whole cells of P. impellucida therefore, it is extremely difficult, in most cases impossible, to detect the presence of the pyrenoid. This new information on the absence of a starch shell in a member of the Prasinophyceae is of importance since pyrenoid structure appears to be of major importance for taxonomic purposes. Apparent fusion stages have been shown to be a variation in vegetative division not previously encountered in the genus Platymonas.
NMBL Staff Only: edit this record |
|
