Skeletonema japonicum is a diatom. Together with S. pseudocostatum, S. tropicum, and S. grethae, it possesses external processes of its fultoportulae that have narrow tips which connect with those of sibling cells via fork-, knot-, or knuckle-like unions.[1]
| Skeletonema japonicum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Clade: | Diaphoretickes |
| Clade: | SAR |
| Clade: | Stramenopiles |
| Phylum: | Gyrista |
| Subphylum: | Ochrophytina |
| Class: | Bacillariophyceae |
| Order: | Thalassiosirales |
| Family: | Skeletonemataceae |
| Genus: | Skeletonema |
| Species: | S. japonicum
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| Binomial name | |
| Skeletonema japonicum Zingone & Sarno, 2005
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References edit
- ^ Sarno, Diana; Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F.; Medlin, Linda K.; Percopo, Isabella; Zingone, Adriana (2005). "Diversity in the Genusskeletonema(Bacillariophyceae). Ii. An Assessment of the Taxonomy Ofs. Costatum-Like Species with the Description of Four New Species" (PDF). Journal of Phycology. 41 (1): 151–176. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.04067.x. ISSN 0022-3646. S2CID 53679188.
Further reading edit
- Kooistra, Wiebe HCF, et al. "Global diversity and biogeography of Skeletonema species (Bacillariophyta)." Protist 159.2 (2008): 177–193.
- Alverson, Andrew J., and Leanne Kolnick. "Intragenomic nucleotide polymorphism among small subunit (18s) rDNA paralogs in the diatom genus skeletonema (bacillariophyta) 1." Journal of phycology 41.6 (2005): 1248–1257.
- Vargas, Cristian A., Rubén Escribano, and Serge Poulet. "Phytoplankton food quality determines time windows for successful zooplankton reproductive pulses." Ecology 87.12 (2006): 2992–2999.
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