Ostreobium
| Ostreobium | |
|---|---|
| Zygomitus reticulatus (1-4) and Ostreobium quekettii (5-8) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Ulvophyceae |
| Order: | Bryopsidales |
| Family: | Ostreobiaceae |
| Genus: | Ostreobium Bornet & Flahault, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| Ostreobium quekettii Bornet & Flahault, 1889
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Ostreobium is a genus of green algae in the family Ostreobiaceae.[1]
Ostreobium is best known as a symbiont of corals forming conspicuous green bands recognizable by the naked eye inside the coral skeleton.[2] Ostreobium can supply photosynthates to the coral during coral bleaching when the symbiotic dinoflagellates that usually preform this role are expelled from the coral holobiont.
In addition to growing burrowed into calcium carbonate rocks, coral and shells and surviving on the low light that gets through the rock, Ostreobium also has been found at great depths where very few organisms can harvest enough light to subsist on photosynthesis[3]
References
- ^ a b Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Ostreobium taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
- ^ Tandon, Kshitij; Pasella, Marisa M.; Iha, Cintia; Ricci, Francesco; Hu, Juntong; O’Kelly, Charles J.; Medina, Mónica; Kühl, Michael; Verbruggen, Heroen (2023-01-30). "Every refuge has its price: Ostreobium as a model for understanding how algae can live in rock and stay in business". Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology. Special Issue: Algal model organisms by Susana Coelho and Olivier de Clerck. 134: 27–36. doi:10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.03.010. ISSN 1084-9521. PMID 35341677.
- ^ del Campo, Javier; Pombert, Jean-François; Šlapeta, Jan; Larkum, Anthony; Keeling, Patrick J. (January 2017). "The 'other' coral symbiont: Ostreobium diversity and distribution". The ISME Journal. 11 (1): 296–299. Bibcode:2017ISMEJ..11..296D. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.101. ISSN 1751-7370. PMC 5315466. PMID 27420029.