The class Chlorophyceae (Chlorophyta) includes morphologically and ecologically diverse green algae.
In the genomes and transcriptomes of diverse green algae (Chlamydomonas, Volvox, Scenedesmus, Helicosporidium and Prototheca), we found highly divergent cystatins.
Much less is known about the variation across the remaining Viridiplantae the diverse green algae of the phyla Chlorophyta and Charophyta (sometimes referred to as Streptophyta, a lineage including all land plants).
The selenocysteine-containing form occurs in species as diverse as green algae, diatoms, sea urchin, fish, and chicken.
PF16 is a conserved Armadillo-repeat protein that regulates flagellar structure and motility in organisms as diverse as green algae and mice.
Because they represent the earliest divergences of the Chlorophyta, the morphologically diverse unicellular green algae making up the prasinophytes hold the key to understanding the nature of the first viridiplants and the evolutionary patterns that accompanied the radiation of chlorophytes.
SAS6L proteins are found in a subset of eukaryotes that contain SAS-6, including diverse protozoa and green algae.
The Chlorophyceae (sensu Mattox and Stewart) is a morphologically diverse class of green algae, which together with three other green algal classes (Prasinophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae and Ulvophyceae) form the Chlorophyta [ 1].
Algal studies of the islands of Yap, in the Caroline Islands, revealed a diverse flora of cyanobacteria, green algae, red algae, euglenoids and dinoflagellates totaling 63 taxa [ 42],[ 43], while, in contrast, a study of stream macroalgae of the islands of Fiji suggested an impoverished stream algal diversity of 15 taxa representing cyanobacteria, green algae and red algae [ 44].
The Streptophyta include all embryophyte plants and a diverse paraphyletic assemblage of freshwater green algae, the Charales (stoneworts), Coleochaete, the Zygnematophyceae and a few other taxa [ 9].
The Streptophyta include all embryophyte plants and a diverse paraphyletic assemblage of freshwater green algae, the Mesostigmatales, Chlorokybales, Klebsormidiales, Zygnematales, Coleochaetales and Charales (stoneworts) [ 13, 14].
