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The fertilization of egg cells varies between species of brown algae, and may be isogamous, oogamous, or anisogamous. Fertilization may take place in the water with eggs and motile sperm, or within the oogonium itself. Certain species of brown algae can also perform asexual reproduction through the production of motile diploid zoospores.
Like other brown algae, there is an alternation of haploid and diploid generations. The haploid thalli form isogamous, anisogamous or oogamous gametes and the diploid thalli form zoospores by meiosis. [1] Reproduction is seasonal, and receptacles start being formed in late autumn in response to short days. [5]
Different forms of isogamy: A) isogamy of motile cells, B) isogamy of non-motile cells, C) conjugation (isogamy in the broad sense). Isogamy is a form of sexual reproduction that involves gametes of the same morphology (indistinguishable in shape and size), and is found in most unicellular eukaryotes. [1]
Sexual reproduction is simple and isogamous (the male and female gametes are outwardly indistinguishable). [17] The Charales (Charophyceae), or stoneworts, are freshwater and brackish algae with slender green or grey stems; the grey colour of many species results from the deposition of lime on the walls, masking the green colour of the ...
The Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale (C. psl) complex is a unicellular, isogamous charophycean alga cells that is the closest unicellular relative to land plants. These algae are capable of forming two types of dormant diploid zygospores.
The more moths that make the sloth fur their home, the more the algae can grow, and the greener the sloth fur becomes. The sloth has a perfect disguise, and the algae and the moths have a perfect ...
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The synurids were originally included among the golden algae in the order Ochromonadales as the family Mallomonadaceae or as the family Synuraceae . They were formally defined as a separate group by Andersen in 1987, who placed them in their own class Synurophyceae , based on an earlier approach of more narrowly defining major lineages of ...