Red algae

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The red algae, or Rhodophyta (/rodft/ roh-DOF-fit-t or /rodfat/ ROH-d-FY-t; from Ancient Greek:
rhodon, "rose" and phyton, "plant"), are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae.[2] The Red algae
Rhodophyta also comprises one of the largest phyla of algae, containing over 7,000 currently recognized species Temporal range:
with taxonomic revisions ongoing.[3] The majority of species (6,793) are found in the Florideophyceae (class), and Mesoproterozoicpresent [1]
consist of mostly multicellular, marine algae, including many notable seaweeds.[3][4] Approximately 5% of the red
Had'n Archean Proterozoic Pha.
algae occur in freshwater environments with greater concentrations found in the warmer area.[5]

The red algae form a distinct group characterized by having eukaryotic cells without flagella and centrioles,
chloroplasts that lack external endoplasmic reticulum and contain unstacked (stoma) thylakoids, and use
phycobiliproteins as accessory pigments, which give them their red color.[6] Red algae store sugars as floridean
starch, which is a type of starch that consists of highly branched amylopectin without amylose,[7] as food reserves
outside their plastids. Most red algae are also multicellular, macroscopic, marine, and reproduce sexually. The red
algal life history is typically an alternation of generations that may have three generations rather than two.[8]

Chloroplasts evolved following an endosymbiotic event between an ancestral, photosynthetic cyanobacterium and
an early eukarytoic Phagotroph.[9] This event (termed Primary endosymbiosis) resulted in the origin of the red and
Green algae, and the Glaucophytes, which make up the oldest evolutionary lineages of photosynthetic
eukaryotes.[10] A secondary endosymbiosis event involving an ancestral red alga and a heterotrophic eukaryote
resulted in the evolution and diversification of several other photosynthetic lineages.[10]

The coralline algae, which secrete calcium carbonate and play a major role in building coral reefs, belong here. A-D : Chondrus crispus Stackhouse,
Red algae such as dulse (Palmaria palmata) and laver (nori/gim) are a traditional part of European and Asian E-F : Mastocarpus stellatus J.Ag.
cuisines and are used to make other products such as agar, carrageenans and other food additives.[11]
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Contents (unranked): Diaphoretickes

1 Habitat (unranked): Archaeplastida

2 Taxonomy Division: Rhodophyta
2.1 Classification comparison
2.2 Species of red algae Wettstein, 1922
3 Morphology
3.1 Pit connections and pit plugs Classification is currently
3.1.1 Pit connections disputed. See Taxonomy .
3.1.2 Pit plugs
3.1.3 Function
4 Reproduction
4.1 Fertilization
4.2 Life cycle
5 Chemistry
6 Genomes of red algae
7 Evolution
7.1 Fossil record
7.2 Relationship to other algae
8 Human consumption
9 Gallery
10 See also
11 References
12 External links

Habitat
Unicellular members of the Cyanidiophyceae are thermoacidophiles and are found in sulphuric hot springs and other acidic environments.[12] The remaining
taxa are found in marine and freshwater environments. Most rhodophytes are marine with a worldwide distribution, and are often found at greater depths
compared to other seaweeds because of dominance in certain pigments (i.e., Phycoerythrin) within their chloroplasts.[13] Some marine species are found on
sandy shores, while most others can be found attached to rocky substrata.[13] Freshwater species account for 5% of red algal diversity, but they also have a
worldwide distribution in various habitats;[5] they generally prefer clean, high-flow streams with clear waters and rocky bottoms, but with some
exceptions.[14] A few freshwater species are found in black waters with sandy bottoms [15] and even fewer are found in more lentic waters.[16] Both marine
and freshwater taxa are represented by free-living macroalgal forms and smaller endo/epiphytic/zoic forms, meaning they live in or on other algae, plants, and
animals [6] In addition, some marine species have adopted a parasitic lifestyle and may be found on closely or more distantly related red algal hosts [17][18]

Taxonomy
In the system of Adl et al. 2005, the red algae are classified in the Archaeplastida, along with the glaucophytes and green algae plus land plants (Viridiplantae
or Chloroplastida). The authors use a hierarchical arrangement where the clade names do not signify rank; the class name Rhodophyceae is used for the red
algae. No subdivisions are given; the authors say, "Traditional subgroups are articial constructs, and no longer valid."[19]

Many studies published since Adl et al. 2005 have provided evidence that is in agreement for monophyly in the Archaeplastida (including red
algae).[20][21][22][23] However, other studies have suggested Archaeplastida is paraphyletic.[24][25] As of January 2011, the situation appears unresolved.

Below are other published taxonomies of the red algae using molecular and traditional alpha taxonomic data; however, the taxonomy of the red algae is still in
a state of flux (with classification above the level of order having received little scientific attention for most of the 20th century).[26]
 If one defines the kingdom Plantae to mean the Archaeplastida, the red algae will be part of that kingdom
If Plantae are defined more narrowly, to be the Viridiplantae, then the red algae might be considered their own kingdom, or part of the kingdom Protista.

A major research initiative to reconstruct the Red Algal Tree of Life (RedToL) using phylogenetic and genomic approaches is funded by the National Science
Foundation as part of the Assembling the Tree of Life Program.

Classification comparison

Classification system according to Classification system according to Pit

Orders Multicelluar? Example
Saunders and Hommersand 2004[26] Hwan Su Yoon et al. 2006[27] plugs?

Phylum Rhodophyta Wettstein

Subkingdom Rhodoplantae Subphylum Cyanidiophytina
Cyanidioschyzon
Phylum Cyanidiophyta subphylum novus Cyanidiales No No
merolae
Class Cyanidiophyceae Merola et al. Class Cyanidiophyceae
Merola et al.

Phylum Rhodophyta Wettstein Subphylum Rhodophytina

Subphylum Rhodellophytina subphylum novus
Rhodellales No No Rhodella
Class Rhodellophyceae Class Rhodellophyceae
Cavalier-Smith Cavalier-Smith

Subphylum Metarhodophytina Class Compsopogonales,

Class Compsopogonophyceae Compsopogonophyceae Rhodochaetales, Yes No Compsopogon
Saunders et Hommersand Saunders et Hommersand Erythropeltidales

Class
Rufusiales,
Stylonematophyceae Yes No Stylonema
Stylonematales
classis nova

Subphylum Eurhodophytina Class Bangiophyceae Bangia,

Bangiales Yes Yes
Class Bangiophyceae Wettstein Wettstein "Porphyra"

Class
Porphyridium
Porphyridiophyceae Porphyridiales No No
cruentum
classis nova

Class Florideophyceae
Cronquist Class Florideophyceae
Hildenbrandiales Yes Yes Hildenbrandia
Subclass Cronquist
Hildenbrandiophycidae

Batrachospermales,
Balliales,
Balbianiales,
Subclass Nemaliales,
Yes Yes Nemalion
Nemaliophycidae Colaconematales,
Acrochaetiales,
Palmariales,
Thoreales

Rhodogorgonales, Corallina
Yes Yes
Corallinales officinalis

Subclass Ahnfeltiales,
Yes Yes Ahnfeltia
Ahnfeltiophycidae Pihiellales

Bonnemaisoniales,
Gigartinales,
Gelidiales,
Gracilariales,
Subclass
Halymeniales, Yes Yes Gelidium
Rhodymeniophycidae
Rhodymeniales,
Nemastomatales,
Plocamiales,
Ceramiales

Some sources (such as Lee) place all red algae into the class "Rhodophyceae". (Lee's organization is not a comprehensive classification, but a selection of
orders considered common or important.[28])

A subphylum - Proteorhodophytina - has been proposed to encompass the existing classes Compsopogonophyceae, Porphyridiophyceae, Rhodellophyceae
and Stylonematophyceae.[29] This proposal was made on the basis of the analysis of the plastid genomes.

Species of red algae

Over 7,000 species are currently described for the red algae,[3] but the taxonomy is in constant flux with new species described each year.[26][27] The vast
majority of these are marine with about 200 that live only in fresh water.
Some examples of species and genera of red algae are:

Cyanidioschyzon merolae, a primitive red alga

Atractophora hypnoides
Gelidiella calcicola
Lemanea, a freshwater genus
Palmaria palmata, dulse
Schmitzia hiscockiana
Chondrus crispus, Irish moss
Mastocarpus stellatus
Vanvoorstia bennettiana, became extinct in the early 20th century
Acrochaetium efflorescens
Audouinella, with freshwater as well as marine species
Polysiphonia ceramiaeformis, banded siphon weed

Morphology
Red algae have double cell walls.[30] The outer layers contain the polysaccharides agarose and agaropectin that can be extracted from the cell walls by boiling
as agar.[30] The internal walls are mostly cellulose.[30]

Pit connections and pit plugs

Pit connections

Pit connections and pit plugs are unique and distinctive features of red algae that form during the process of cytokinesis following mitosis.[31][32] In red algae,
cytokinesis is incomplete. Typically, a small pore is left in the middle of the newly formed partition. The pit connection is formed where the daughter cells
remain in contact.

Shortly after the pit connection is formed, cytoplasmic continuity is blocked by the generation of a pit plug, which is deposited in the wall gap that connects
the cells.

Connections between cells having a common parent cell are called primary pit connections. Because apical growth is the norm in red algae, most cells have
two primary pit connections, one to each adjacent cell.

Connections that exist between cells not sharing a common parent cell are labeled secondary pit connections. These connections are formed when an unequal
cell division produced a nucleated daughter cell that then fuses to an adjacent cell. Patterns of secondary pit connections can be seen in the order
Ceramiales.[32]

Pit plugs

After a pit connection is formed, tubular membranes appear. A granular protein, called the plug core, then forms around the membranes. The tubular
membranes eventually disappear. While some orders of red algae simply have a plug core, others have an associated membrane at each side of the protein
mass, called cap membranes. The pit plug continues to exist between the cells until one of the cells dies. When this happens, the living cell produces a layer of
wall material that seals off the plug.

Function

The pit connections have been suggested to function as structural reinforcement, or as avenues for cell-to-cell communication and transport in red algae,
however little data supports this hypothesis.[33]

Reproduction
The reproductive cycle of red algae may be triggered by factors such as day length.[2]

Fertilization

Red algae lack motile sperm. Hence, they rely on water currents to transport their gametes to the female organs although their sperm are capable of "gliding"
to a carpogonium's trichogyne.[2]

The trichogyne will continue to grow until it encounters a spermatium; once it has been fertilized, the cell wall at its base progressively thickens, separating it
from the rest of the carpogonium at its base.[2]

Upon their collision, the walls of the spermatium and carpogonium dissolve. The male nucleus divides and moves into the carpogonium; one half of the
nucleus merges with the carpogonium's nucleus.[2]

The polyamine spermine is produced, which triggers carpospore production.[2]

Spermatangia may have long, delicate appendages, which increase their chances of "hooking up".[2]

Life cycle

They display alternation of generations; in addition to gametophyte generation, many have two sporophyte generations, the carposporophyte-producing
carpospores, which germinate into a tetrasporophyte this produces spore tetrads, which dissociate and germinate into gametophytes.[2] The gametophyte is
typically (but not always) identical to the tetrasporophyte.[34]

Carpospores may also germinate directly into thalloid gametophytes, or the carposporophytes may produce a tetraspore without going through a (free-living)
tetrasporophyte phase.[34] Tetrasporangia may be arranged in a row (zonate), in a cross (cruciate), or in a tetrad.[2]
The carposporophyte may be enclosed within the gametophyte, which may cover it with branches to form a cystocarp.[34]
The carposporophyte may be enclosed within the gametophyte, which may cover it with branches to form a cystocarp.[34]

These case studies may be helpful to understand some of the life histories algae may display:

In a simple case, such as Rhodochorton investiens:

In the Carposporophyte: a spermatium merges with a trichogyne (a long hair on the female sexual organ), which then divides to form carposporangia which
produce carpospores.

Carpospores germinate into gametophytes, which produce sporophytes. Both of these are very similar; they produce monospores from monosporangia "just
below a cross wall in a filament"[2] and their spores are "liberated through apex of sporangial cell."[2]

The spores of a sporophyte produce either tetrasporophytes. Monospores produced by this phase germinate immediately, with no resting phase, to form an
identical copy of parent. Tetrasporophytes may also produce a carpospore, which germinates to form another tetrasporophyte.[2]

The gametophyte may replicate using monospores, but produces sperm in spermatangia, and "eggs"(?) in carpogonium.[2]

A rather different example is Porphyra gardneri:

In its diploid phase, a carpospore can germinate to form a filamentous "conchocelis stage", which can also self-replicate using monospores. The conchocelis
stage eventually produces conchosporangia. The resulting conchospore germinates to form a tiny prothallus with rhizoids, which develops to a cm-scale leafy
thallus. This too can reproduce via monospores, which are produced inside the thallus itself.[2] They can also reproduce via spermatia, produced internally,
which are released to meet a prospective carpogonium in its conceptacle.[2]

Chemistry
The 13C values of red algae reflect their lifestyles. The largest difference results from their photosynthetic
Algal group 13C range[35]
metabolic pathway: algae that use HCO3 as a carbon source have less negative 13C values than those that only
use CO2.[35] An additional difference of about 1.71 separates groups intertidal from those below the lowest HCO3-using red algae 22.5 to 9.6
tide line, which are never exposed to atmospheric carbon. The latter group uses the more 13C-negative CO2 CO2-using red algae 34.5 to 29.9
dissolved in sea water, whereas those with access to atmospheric carbon reflect the more positive signature of Brown algae 20.8 to 10.5
this reserve.
Green algae 20.3 to 8.8
Red algae are red due to phycoerythrin. They contain the sulfated polysaccharide carrageenan in the amorphous
sections of their cell walls, although red algae from the genus Porphyra contain porphyran. They also produce a specific type of tannin called phlorotannins,
but in lower amount than brown algae do.

Genomes of red algae

Complete genome sequences are only available for 5 species of red algae, including 4 published in 2013.

Cyanidioschyzon merolae, Cyanidiophyceae[36][37]

Galdieria sulphuraria, Cyanidiophyceae[38]
Pyropia yezoensis, Bangiophyceae[39]
Chondrus crispus, Florideophyceae[40]
Porphyridium purpureum, Porphyridiophyceae[41]
Porphyra umbilicalis, Bangiophyceae[42]

Evolution
Fossil record

One of the oldest fossils identified as a red alga is also the oldest fossil eukaryote that belongs to a specific modern taxon. Bangiomorpha pubescens, a
multicellular fossil from arctic Canada, strongly resembles the modern red alga Bangia despite occurring in rocks dating to 1.2 billion years ago.[1]

Two kinds of fossils resembling red algae were found sometime between 2006 and 2011 in well-preserved sedimentary rocks in Chitrakoot, central India. The
presumed red algae lie embedded in fossil mats of cyanobacteria, called stromatolites, in 1.6 billion-year-old Indian phosphorite making them the oldest
plant-like fossils ever found by about 400 million years.[43]

Red algae are important builders of limestone reefs. The earliest such coralline algae, the solenopores, are known from the Cambrian period. Other algae of
different origins filled a similar role in the late Paleozoic, and in more recent reefs.

Calcite crusts that have been interpreted as the remains of coralline red algae, date to the terminal Proterozoic.[44] Thallophytes resembling coralline red algae
are known from the late Proterozoic Doushantuo formation.[45]

Relationship to other algae

Chromista and Alveolata algae (e.g., chrysophytes, diatoms, phaeophytes, dinophytes) seem to have evolved from bikonts that have acquired red algae as
endosymbionts. According to this theory, over time these endosymbiont red algae have evolved to become chloroplasts. This part of endosymbiotic theory is
supported by various structural and genetic similarities.[46]

Human consumption
Several species are important food crops, in particular members of the genus Porphyra, variously known as nori (Japan), gim (Korea), or laver (Britain).
Dulse (Palmaria palmata)[47] is another important British species.[48] These rhodophyte foods are high in vitamins and protein and are easily grown; for
example, nori cultivation in Japan goes back more than three centuries.
In East and Southeast Asia, agar is most commonly produced from Gelidium amansii.
Gallery
Cyanidium sp. Porphyra sp., haploid Chondrus crispus
(Cyanidiophyceae) and diploid (Florideophyceae:
(Bangiophyceae) Gigartinales)
Some red algae are
iridescent when not
covered with water
See also
Brown algae
Green algae
History of phycology
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