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Chlorophyta
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Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae (Plantae sensu stricto).
Chlorophyta is a major group of green algae that represents one of the primary branches of plant life on Earth. These organisms are important because they form part of the foundational algal diversity in aquatic ecosystems and are closely related to the evolutionary lineage that eventually led to all land plants.
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Species
green algae
Plantae
KINGDOM
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumChlorophyta
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Research
27,925 papers- [Nitric Oxide(II) in the Biology of Chlorophyta].ReviewMolekuliarnaia biologiia · 2023Ermilova EVDOI: 10.31857/S002689842306006X
- Plant gravity sensing.ReviewInternational review of cytology · 1991Sack FD, New Collective AuthorDOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)60695-6
- Novel diversity within marine Mamiellophyceae (Chlorophyta) unveiled by metabarcoding.Scientific reports · 2019Tragin M, Vaulot DDOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41680-6
- The concept of the genus Ulothrix (Chlorophyta) strengthened by comparative cytology.ReviewBio Systems · 1985Lokhorst GMDOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(85)90035-8
- Different preferences for inorganic carbon influence CO(2) flux under Cyanobacteria or Chlorophyta dominance days.Journal of environmental management · 2024Deng KK, Li YX, Yan P et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122662
- Co-occurrence patterns between Chlorophyta and nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus in coastal ecosystem, South Korea.Marine environmental research · 2025Kim MJ, Kim KE, Kim HJ et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.106944
- Evolutionary significance of amino acid permease transporters in 17 plants from Chlorophyta to Angiospermae.BMC genomics · 2020Zhang C, Kong N, Cao M et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12864-020-6729-3
- Polyols and UV-sunscreens in the Prasiola-clade (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) as metabolites for stress response and chemotaxonomy.Journal of phycology · 2018Hotter V, Glaser K, Hartmann A et al.DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12619
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20 sectionsContents
- Description
- Chloroplasts
- Flagellar apparatus
- Metabolism
- Reproduction and life cycle
- Ecology
- Free-living
- Symbionts
- Systematics
- Taxonomic history
- Classification
- Evolution
- Usage
- Model organisms
- Industrial uses
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Chlorophyta or chlorophytes is a major division of green algae, and is sister taxon to the other major division Charophyta (a paraphyletic group of predominantly freshwater green algae, which form the monophyletic clade Streptophyta after including all land plants) as well as the proposed basal clade Prasinodermophyta, together with whom they form the major primary algae clade Viridiplantae (Plantae sensu stricto).
== Description == Chlorophytes are eukaryotic organisms composed of cells with a variety of coverings or walls, and usually a single green chloroplast in each cell. They are structurally diverse: most groups of chlorophytes are unicellular, such as the earliest-diverging prasinophytes, but in two major classes (Chlorophyceae and Ulvophyceae) there is an evolutionary trend toward various types of complex colonies and even multicellularity.