Global InformationAkashiwo sanguinea information
| Akashiwo sanguinea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota
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| (unranked): | SAR
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| (unranked): | Alveolata
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| Phylum: | Dinoflagellata
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| Class: | Dinophyceae
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| Order: | Gymnodiniales
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| Family: | Gymnodiniaceae
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| Genus: | Akashiwo
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| Species: | A. sanguinea
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| Binomial name | |
| Akashiwo sanguinea (K. Hirasaka) Hansen & Moestrup
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Akashiwo sanguinea is a species of marine dinoflagellates well known for forming blooms that result in red tides.[1] The organism is unarmored (naked). Therefore, it lacks a thick cellulose wall, the theca, common in other genera of dinoflagellates. Reproduction of the phytoplankton species is primarily asexual.[2]
Recently recognized as mixotrophic, A. sanguinea is capable of preying on various organisms.[3] For example, A. sanguinea is found to be capable of ingesting the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. at values comparable to other heterotrophic phytoplankton. This suggests implications it may have on the grazing impact of Synechococcus.[4]
- ^ Hargraves, P. E. (June 14, 2011). "Akashiwo sanguinea". Protists of the Indian River Lagoon. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
- ^ Lalli, Carol M.; Parsons, Timothy R. (1993). Biological Oceanography: an Introduction (2nd ed.). Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 42–45. ISBN 0-7506-3384-0.
- ^ Bockstahler, K. R.; Coats, D. W. (1993). "Grazing of the mixotrophic dinoflagellate Gymnodinium sanguineum on ciliate populations of Chesapeake Bay". Marine Biology. 116 (3): 477–487. Bibcode:1993MarBi.116..477B. doi:10.1007/BF00350065. S2CID 84468485.
- ^ Jeong, Hae Jin; Park, Jae Yeon; Nho, Jae Hoon; Park, Myung Ok; Ha, Jeong Hyun; Seong, Kyeong Ah; Jeng, Chang; Seong, Chi Nam; Lee, Kwang Ya; Yih, Won Ho (2005). "Feeding by red-tide dinoflagellates on the cyanobacterium Synechococcus". Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 41 (2): 131–143. doi:10.3354/ame041131.