Dictyochloropsis reticulata
Dictyochloropsis reticulata is a species of green algae in the Trebouxiales. It is a known as a photobiont (photosynthetic symbiont) with several lichen species, like Lobaria pulmonaria, but also as a free-living soil alga as well.[1] Phylogenetic analysis of rRNA sequence data revealed that the species shares a sister group relationship with two other green algae that lack motile stages, Chlorella saccharophila and C. luteoviridis.[2]
| Dictyochloropsis reticulata | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Phylum: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
| Order: | Trebouxiales |
| Family: | Trebouxiaceae |
| Genus: | Dictyochloropsis |
| Species: | D. reticulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Dictyochloropsis reticulata (Tschermak-Woess) Tschermak-Woess | |
References
- Tschermak-Woess E. (1951). Myrmecia reticulata as a phycobiont and free-living―free-living Trebouxia―the problem of Stenocybe septata. Lichenologist 10: 69—79.
- Friedl T. (1995). Inferring taxonomic positions and testing genus level assignments in coccoid green lichen algae: a phylogenetic analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA sequences from Dictyochloropsis reticulata and from members of the genus Myrmecia (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae cl. nov.). Journal of Phycology 31(4): 632-639.
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