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- Title
THE CYST-THECA RELATIONSHIP IN <em>CALCIODINELLUM OPEROSUM</em> EMEND. (PERIDINIALES, DINOPHYCEAE) AND A NEW APPROACH FOR THE STUDY OF CALCAREOUS CYSTS.
- Authors
Montresor, Marina; Janofske, Dorothea; Willems, Helmut
- Abstract
The paratabulate calcareous cyst of Calciodinellum operosum Deflandre was recorded in a sediment trap sample collected in the Bay of Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). The germination of this resting stage produced a phototrophic vegetative cell that had the typical plate pattern of a Scrippsiella species. The cyst morphotypes, observed in a clonal culture of this species, ranged from cysts with well-developed paratabulation to cysts in which the paratabulation was barely visible, to cysts covered by irregularly shaped crystals. The analysis of thin sections of the calcareous cysts using the polarized light microscope equipped with crossed nicols and a gypsum plate showed that the optical orientation of the calcite crystals was tangential in all the morphotypes examined. We suggest that the crystallographic method we describe might provide insights for calcareous cyst taxonomy and phylogeny.
- Subjects
DINOFLAGELLATES; PERIDINIALES; CORALLINE algae; CYSTS (Pathology); BIOMINERALIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- Publication
Journal of Phycology, 1997, Vol 33, Issue 1, p122
- ISSN
0022-3646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.0022-3646.1997.00122.x