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Volvox kirkiorum

Page history last edited by Aurora Nedelcu 11 years, 10 months ago

 

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Taxonomic characters

 

 

 

Morphology / Structure

- asexual spheroids

     - ellipsoidal to ovoid in shape

     - up to 930 um long

     - 3,000–6,000 somatic cells (connected by one another via thick cytoplasmic bridges) and 2– 8 (usually 4–6) gonidia (not evident in juvenile spheroids) distributed in the posterior two-thirds of the mother spheroid

- sexual spheroids

     - 1,000–6,000 celled

     - up to 540 um long

     - monoecious with 20–80 (usually 30–50) eggs and 4–8 sperm packets

 

Life history

- monoecious

 

 

Ecology

Type locality: A fallow paddy field in Koyabu, Kuwabaracho, Hashimashi, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Distribution: Japan (Kasai et al. 2009).

 

 

Availability in culture collections or research labs

 

- available as NIES-2740 from the Microbial Culture Collection at National Institute for Environmental Studies (Kasai et al. 2009) and UTEX LB 2966 from the Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

Media and growth conditions in culture

 

 

 

Sequence Information

NCBI

 

 

Links to other databases

 

Algae Base

Index Nominum Algarum

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

 

 

 

Miscellaneous

The species epithet ‘‘kirkiorum’’ honoring Mr. and Mrs. Kirk who contributed much to our knowledge of Volvox genetics and development (e.g., Kirk and Kirk 1986).

 

 

 

Selected References

DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW MONOECIOUS SPECIES OF VOLVOX SECT. VOLVOX (VOLVOCACEAE, CHLOROPHYCEAE), BASED ON COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF CULTURED MATERIAL. Nanako Isaka, Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka, Ryo Matsuzaki, Takashi Nakada and Hisayoshi Nozaki. DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2012.01142.x

 

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Contributors

Name e-mail
Aurora Nedelcu anedelcu@unb.ca

 

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