pedinophycean

English

Etymology

From Pedinophyceae +‎ -an.

Noun

pedinophycean (plural pedinophyceans)

1. Any green alga of the class Pedinophyceae.
   • 2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Remarkably, seven of the atypical IR-encoded genes have also been observed in the IRs of pedinophycean and trebouxiophycean chloroplast genomes, suggesting that they were already present in the IR of the common ancestor of all core chlorophytes.