COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO HAPTOPHYTE PHYLOGENY; PIGMENT AND LIPID COMPOSITION AND CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE.
Kees van Lenning, Hanno Kinkel & Ian Probert
The pigment and lipid composition of laboratory cultured cells of a representative selection from across the range of the haptophytes, including emphasis on coccolithophorid species which are available in culture, was analyzed by HPLC and GC respectively. Available reports from the literature relating to cell ultrastructure were synthesized together with our observations on certain previously unreported species. Cladistic analysis of the data sets was performed and the results compared to published classical and genetic taxonomical classifications.
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