Taxa to be examined in the proposed study. Genes that remain to be sequenced from each taxon are indicated
in parentheses, with r = rbcL, 18 = 18S rDNA and 26 = 26S rDNA. All organisms are available from major collections
(Culture collection of algae at the University of Texas, Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine
Phytoplankton, Scandinavian Culture Center for Algae and Protozoa, Sammlung von Algenkulturen, Culture Collection
of Algae and Protozoa, Plymouth Culture Collection [Marine Biological Association, U.K.], Marine Biotechnology
Institute, Japan, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan, and Roscoff Culture Collection of Marine
Phytoplankton) or have been collected from the field and maintained at -80C. The exception is Picoystis salinarum,
which is expected to soon become available.
| Chlorophyceae (68) | Prasinophyceae (25) | Trebouxiophyceae (35) | Ulvophyceae (33) |
| Ankyra judayi (r) | Bathycoccus prasinos (18, 26) | Chlorella ellipsoidea | Acetabularia acetabulum (26) |
| Aphanochaete magna (r) | Crustomastix didyma (r, 18, 26) | Chlorella minutissima (r, 26) | Acetabularia major (26) |
| Atractomorpha echinata (r) | Cymbomonas tetramitiformis (26) | Chlorella saccharophila (r, 26) | Acicularia schenkii (26) |
| Chlamydomonas moewusi | Halosphaera sp. (r, 26) | Chlorella vulgaris (r, 26) | Acrosiphonia sp. (r, 26) |
| Chlamydomonas monoica (r) | Mamiella sp. (26) | Choricystis minor (r, 26) | Batophora ocidentalis (26) |
| Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | Mantoniella squamata (26) | Closteriopsis acicularis.(r, 26) | Bornetella nitida (26) |
| Chlorogonium elongatum (26) | Micromonas pusilla (26) | Coccomyxa simplex (r, 18, 26) | Bryopsis plumosa (18, 26) |
| Botryococcus braunii (r, 26) | Nephroselmis olivacea (26) | Dictyochloropsis retic. (r, 26) | Caulerpa prolifera (r, 26) |
| Bracteacoccus minor (r) | Nephroselmis pyriformis (r, 26) | Eremosphaera viridis (r, 26) | Cephaleuros parasiticus (26) |
| Bulbochaete hiloensis. | Nephroselmis minuta (18, 26) | Fusochloris perforata (26) | Chaetomorpha linum (r, 26) |
| Carteria crucifera | Picocystis salinarum (r, 26) | Geminella minor (r, 26) | Chamaedoris peniculum (r, 26) |
| Chaetopeltis orbicularis (r) | Prasinococcus capsulatus (26) | Geminella terricola (r, 26) | Cladophora albida (r, 26) |
| Chaetophora incrassata (r) | Prasinoderma sp. (26) | Gloeotila contorta (r, 26) | Cladophora vagabunda (r, 26) |
| Cylindrocapsa geminella (r) | Pseudoscourfieldia marina (26) | Golenkinia minutissima (r, 26) | Cladophoropsis membran. (r, 26) |
| Dunaliella parva | Pterosperma cristatum (26) | Jaagiella alpicola (r, 18, 26) | Codium decorticatum (18, 26) |
| Elakatothrix viride | Pycnococcus provasolii (26) | Leptosira terrestris (r, 26) | Enteromorpha intestinalis (26) |
| Fritschiella tuberosa (r) | Pyramimonas orientalis (18, 26) | Micractinium pusilum (r) | Ernodesmis verticillata (r, 26) |
| Haematococcus lacustris (26) | Pyramimonas olivaea (26) | Microspora stagnorum (r,26) | Gloeotilopsis planctonica (r, 26) |
| Hafniomonas reticulata (r, 26) | Pyramimonas propulsa (r, 26) | Microthamnion kuetzing. (r, 26) | Halimeda discoidea (18, 26) |
| Heterochlamydomonas inae. (r) | Pyramimonas parkeae (26) | Myrmecia israelensis (r, 26) | Hazenia mirabilis (r, 26) |
| Hormotilopsis tetravac. (r) | Scherffelia dubia (r, 26) | Myrmecia bisecta (r, 26) | Microdictyon boergesenii (r, 26) |
| Hydrodictyon reticulatum (r) | Tetraselmis convolutae (r, 26) | Nannochloris eucaryotum (r, 26) | Monostroma grevillei (r, 26) |
| Microspora sp. (r) | Tetraselmis striata (r 26) | Oocystis heteromucosa (r, 26) | Neomeris dumentosa (26) |
| Neochloris vigensis (r) | coccoid CCMP 1220 (26) | Paradoxia multiseta (r, 26) | Penicillus dumetatus (18, r, 26) |
| Oedocladium carolinianum (r) | coccoid CCMP 1205 (r, 26) | Parietochloris pseudoalv. (r, 26) | Protoderma sarcinoidea (r, 26) |
| Oedogonium cardiacum | Pedinophyceae (3) | Planctonema sp. (r, 26) | Rhizoclonium riparium (r, 26) |
| Pediastrum duplex (r) | Marsupiomonas pell. (r, 18, 26) | Prasiola fluviatilis (26) | Siphonocladus tropicus (r, 26) |
| Physocytium sp.(r) | Pedinomonas minor (26) | Prasiolopsis ramosa (r, 18, 26) | Trentepohlia sp. (26) |
| Planophila terrestris (r) | Resultor mikron (18, 26) | Prototheca wickerhamii (r, 26) | Udotea flabellum (18, r, 26) |
| Polytoma uvella (r, 26) | Mesostimatophyceae (2) | Radiofilum conjunctivum (r, 26) | Ulothrix zonata (r, 26) |
| Protosiphon botryoides | Chaetosphaeridium glob. (r, 26) | Raphidonema longipes.(r, 26) | Ulva fasciata (r, 26) |
| Radiofilum transversale (r) | Mesostigma viride (26) | Stichococcus bacill. (r, 18, 26) | Ulvaria oxysperma (r, 26) |
| Scenedesmus obliquus | Trebouxia impressa (r, 26) | Valonia utricularis (r, 26) | |
| Spermatozopsis similis (r, 26) | Trebouxia magna (r, 26) | ||
| Sphaeroplea robusta | Trebouxia usneae (r, 26) | ||
| Tetraspora sp (r) | |||
| Treubaria setigera | |||
| Trochiscia hystrix (r) | |||
| Uronema belkae (r) i | |||
| Volvox carteri | |||
| 28 chlamydomonad taxa representing 7 molecular phylogenetic lineages (26, r) | |||