Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Reproductive Biology of Eukaryotic Algae

  • Chapter
Reproductive Biology of Plants

Abstract

The algae comprise a large heterogeneous assemblage of photoautotrophic organisms which vary vastly in size, shape and mode of life. The diverse phyla of algae show morphological, cytological, physiological and biochemical differences. The reproductive systems of these algae also show similar diversity. Reproduction in the algae may take place by vegetative or asexual or sexual methods.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Bal BP, Kundu BC, Sundaralingam VS, Venkataraman GS (1962) Charophyta. Indian Council Agrie Res, New Delhi. (ICAR), pp i–x + 1–123.

    Google Scholar 

  • Belajeff, W (1894) Ueber Bau und Entwicklung der spermatozoiden der Pflanzen. Flora 79: 1–48

    Google Scholar 

  • Berthold G (1881) Die geschlechtliche Fortpflanzung der eigentlichen Phaeosporen. Mittheil Zool Stat Zu Neapel 2: 401–413

    Google Scholar 

  • Brown RM, Johnson C, Bold HC (1968) Electron and phase-contrast microscopy of reproduction in Chlamydomonas moewusii. J Phycol 4: 100–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Canter-Lund H, Lund JWG (1995) Fresh water algae—their microscopic world explored. Biopress, Bristol, pp xv + 360.

    Google Scholar 

  • De Bary A (1871) Ueber den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Charen. Monatsbar. Akad Wiss Berlin 187: 227–329

    Google Scholar 

  • DeCew TC, West JA (1982) Sexual life history in Rhodophysema (Rhodophyceae): a reinterpretation. Phycologia 21: 67–74

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Desikachary TV, Krishnamurthy V, Balakrishnan MS (1990) Rhodophyta. Madras Science Foundation, Madras, Part 1: pp 1–277, Part IIA, pp 1–279

    Google Scholar 

  • Doraiswamy S (1940) On the morphology and cytology of Eudorina indica Iyengar. J Indian Bot Soc 19: 113–139

    Google Scholar 

  • Feldmann J, Feldmann G (1942) Recherches sur les Bonnemaisoniacees et leur alternance de generation. Ann Sci Nat Bot Ser 113: 115–128

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedmann I, Colwin AL, Colwin LH (1968) Fine structural aspects of fertilization in Chlamydomonas reinhardii. J Cell Sci 3: 115–128

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Fritsch FE (1929) The genus Sphaeroplea. Ann Bot (Lond) 43: 1–26

    Google Scholar 

  • Fritsch FE (1935) Structure and reproduction of the Algae. Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge (UK), Vol 1: i–xvii + 1–791

    Google Scholar 

  • Fritsch FE (1945) Structure and reproduction of the algae Vol 2. Cambridge Universty Press, Cambridge, pp 939

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerloff J (1940) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Variabilitat und Systematik der Gattung Chlamydomonas. Arch Protistenkd 94: 311–502

    Google Scholar 

  • Groves J (1931) On the antheridium of Chara zeylanica Willd. J Bot London, 68: 97–98

    Google Scholar 

  • Groves J, Bullock-Webster R (1920) The British Charophyta. 1.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hawkes MW, Scagel RF (1986) The marine algae of British Columbia and northern Washington. Division Rhodophyta (red algae), class Rhodophyceae, order Palmariales. Can J Bot 64: 1148–1173

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hobbs MJ (1971) The fine structure of Eudornia illinoisensis (Kofoid) Pascher. Br Phycol J 6: 81–103

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hoffman LR (1961) Studies on the morphology, cytology and reproduction of Oedogonium and Oedocladium. Diss Abstr Univ Texas 22: 2956–2957

    Google Scholar 

  • Iyengar MOP, Ramanathan K (1951) On the structure and reproduction of Pleodorina spherica Iyengar. Phytomorphology 1: 215–224

    Google Scholar 

  • Iyengar MOP, Subrahmanyan R (1944) On reduction division and auxospore formation in Cyclotella meneghiniana Kuetz. J Indian Bot Soc 23: 125–152

    Google Scholar 

  • Kniep H (1928) Die Sexualitat der niederen Pflanzen. G. Fischer, Jena, 544 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Knight M (1929) Studies in the Ectocarpaceae 2. The life history and cytology of Ectocarpus siliculosis Dilw. Trans R Soc Edinb 56: 307–332

    Google Scholar 

  • Krishnamurthy V (1959) Cytological investigation on Porphyra umbilicalis (L) Kutz. var. laciniata (lightft) JG Ag. Ann Bot (Lond) 23: 147–176

    Google Scholar 

  • Krishnamurthy V (1988) Reproduction strategy in the Rhodophyta. Seaweed Res Utiln Madras 11: 55–65

    Google Scholar 

  • Krishnamurthy V (1996) A phylogenetic consideration of the reproduction stategies in the Rhodophyta. Nova Hedwigia 112: 189–197

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuckuck P (1891) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Ectocarpus Arten der Kieler Forde. Bot Zbl 48: 1–7, 33–41, 65–71, 97–104, 125–141

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuckuck P (1899) Ueber den Generationswechsel von Cutleria multifida (Engl Bot) Grev. Wiss Meeresunters Helgoland NF 3: 95–116

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuckuck P (1912) Ueber Platoma bairdii (Fari). Kuck. Wiss Meeresunters Helgoland NF 5: 187–208

    Google Scholar 

  • Kylin H (1916) Ueber der Bau der Spermatozoiden der Fucaceen. Akad Afhandl Upps 34: 194–201

    Google Scholar 

  • Kylin H (1918) Studien über die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Phaeophyceen. Sven Bot Tidsskr 12: 1–64

    Google Scholar 

  • Kylin H (1938) Beziehungen zwischen generationswechsel und Phylogenie. Arch Protistenk 90: 432–447

    Google Scholar 

  • Kylin H (1956) Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceae. G.W.K. Gleerup, (Lund) 673 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewin RA (1950) Genetics of Chlamydomonas moewusii Gerloff. Proc Intl Bot Congr Stockholm pp 851–860

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewin RA (1952) Studies on the flagella of algae 1. General observations on Chlamydomonas. Biol Bull 103: 74–79

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lewin RA (1954) Mutants of Chlamydomonas moewusii with impaired motility. J Gen Microbiol 11: 858–863

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewin RA (1957) The zygotes of Chlamydomonas moewusii. Can J Bot 35: 795–804

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lewin RA, Meinhart JP (1953) Studies on the flagella of algae 3. Electron micrographs of Chlamydomonas moewusii. Can J Bot 31: 711–717

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Loiseaux S, West JA (1970) Brown algal mastigonemes: Comparative ultrastructure. Trans Amer Microsc Soc 89: 524–532

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Luning K, Muller DG (1978) Chemical interaction in sexual reproduction of several Laminariales (Phaeophyceae): Release and attraction of spermatozoids. Pflanzenphysiol 84: 333–334

    Google Scholar 

  • Maier I, Müller DG (1981) Sexual pheromones in algae. Biol Bull 170: 145–175

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mitra AK (1951) Certain new members of the Volvocales from Indian soils. Phytomorphology 1: 58–64

    Google Scholar 

  • Moestrup O (1982) Flagella structure in algae; a review, with new observations particularly on the Chrysophyceae, Phaeophyceae (Fucophyceae), Euglenophyceae and Reckertia. Phycologia 21: 427–528

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Moewus F (1933) Untersuchungen über die Variabilitat von Chlamydompnaden. Arch Protistenkd 80: 128–171

    Google Scholar 

  • Müller DG (1972) Befruchtungsstoff bei Braunalgen. Ber Dtsch Bot Ges 87: 363–369

    Google Scholar 

  • Müller DG, Jaenick L, Donike M, Akintobi T (1971) Sex attractant in a brown alga: Chemical Structure. Science, 171: 815–817

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Müller DG, Gassmann G (1978) Identification of the sex attractant in the marine brown alga Fucus vesiculosis. Naturwisenschaften 65: 389

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Müller DG, Seferiadis K (1977) Specificity of sexual chemotaxes in Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosis (Phaeophyceae). Z Pflanzenphysiol 84: 85–94

    Google Scholar 

  • Murray SN, Dixon PS, Scott JL (1972) The life history of Porphyropsis coccínea var dawsoni in culture. Br Phycol J 7: 323–333

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ohmi M, Kunifuji Y, Miura A (1986) Cross experiments of the color mutants in Porphyra yezoensis Ueda. Jpn J Phycol 34: 101–106

    Google Scholar 

  • Oltmanns F (1898) Die Entwicklung der Sexualorgane bei Coleochate pulvinata. Flora 85: 1–14

    Google Scholar 

  • Oltmanns F (1899) Ueber die Sexualität der Ectocarpeen. Flora 86: 86–99

    Google Scholar 

  • Papenfuss GF (1935) Alternation of generations in Ectocarpus siliculosis. Bot Gaz 96: 421–446

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ramanathan KR (1939a) The morphology, cytology and alternation of generations in Entermorpha compressa (L) Grev var lingulata (J.Ag.) Hauck. Ann Bot (Lond) 3: 375–398

    Google Scholar 

  • Ramanathan KR (1939b) On the mechanism of spore liberation in Pithophora polymorpha Witt. J Indian Bot Soc 18: 25–29

    Google Scholar 

  • Ramarao K (1992) Observations on the morphology of two species of Hypnea in Indian waters. Seaweed Res Utiln 15: 5–10

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenvinge LK (1924) The marine algae of Denmark. Pt 3 Rhodophyceae (Ceramiales). Det Kgl Danske Vidensk Selsk Biol Skrift 7: 287–486

    Google Scholar 

  • Schussnig B, Kothbauer E (1934) Der Phasenwechsel von Ectocarpus siliculosis. Oesterr Bot Z 83: 81–97

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Searles RB (1980) The strategy of the red algal life history. Ann Nat 115: 113–120

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • South GR, Whittick A (1967) Introduction to phycology. Blackwell Scientific London, 278 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Starr, RC, O’Neil RM, Miller III CE (1980) L-glutamic acid as a mediator of morphogenesis in Volvoxx capensis. Proc Natl Acad Sci 77: 1025–1028

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Subrahmanyan R (1947) On somatic division, reduction division, auxoxpore formation and sex differentiation on Navicula halophila (Grim.) Cleve. J Indian Bot Soc (MOP Iyengar Comm Vol) pp 239–266

    Google Scholar 

  • Sundaralingam, VS (1954) The developmental morphology of Chara zeylanica Willd. J Indian Bot Soc 33: 227–296

    Google Scholar 

  • Sundaralingam VS (1946) The cytology and spermatogenesis in Charazeylanica Willd. J Indian Bot Soc (MOP Iyengar Comm Vol), pp 289–303

    Google Scholar 

  • Svedelius N (1921) Einige Bemerkungen über generationswechsel und Reduktionsteilung. Ber Dtsch Bot Ges 39: 178–187

    Google Scholar 

  • Svedellius N (1927) Alternation of generations in relation to reduction division, Bot Gaz 83: 362–384

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Svedellius N (1931) Nuclear phases and alternation in the Rhodophyceae. Beih Bot Zbl 148: 38–59

    Google Scholar 

  • Thuret G (1854) Recherches sur la fécondation des Fucacées. Ann Sci Nat Bot ser. IV, 2: 197–214

    Google Scholar 

  • Thuret G, Bornet E (1878) Etude phycologique. G Masson, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsubo Y (1956) Observations on sexual reproduction in a Chlamydomonas. Bot Mag Tokyo 69: 1–6

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsubo Y (1961) Chemotaxis and sexual behaviour in Chlamydomonas. J Protozool 8: 114–121

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsubo Y (1957) On the mating reaction of a Chlamydomonas with special reference to clumping and Chemotaxis. Bot Mag Tokyo 70: 327–334

    Google Scholar 

  • Tsubo Y (1961) Chemotaxis and sexual behaviour in Chlamydomonas. J. Protozool 8: 114–121

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Den Ende H (1976) Sexual interactions in plants. Academic Press, London

    Google Scholar 

  • Van der Meer JP, Todd ER (1980) The life history of Palmaria in culture. A new type for the Rhodophyta. Can J Bot 58: 1250–1256

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • West JA (1969) The life histories of Rhodochorton purpureum and R. tenue in culture. J Phycol 5: 12–21

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wille N (1894) Über die Befruchtung bei Nemalion multifidum (Web. et Mohr). J Ag Ber Deutsch Bot Ges 12: 57–60

    Google Scholar 

  • Wiese L, Shoemaker DW (1970) On sexual agglutination and mating type substances (gamones) in isogamous, heterothallic Chlamydomonas. 2. The effect of conconvalin A upon the mating type reaction. Biol Bull 138: 88–95

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Yamanonchi S (1906) The life history of Polysiphonia violacea. Bot Gaz 42: 401–409

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. V. Krishnamurthy
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Central Reference Library, University of Delhi, 110 007, Delhi, India

    B. M. Johri

  2. Centre for Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, 110 062, New Delhi, India

    P. S. Srivastava

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2001 Narosa Publishing House

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Krishnamurthy, V. (2001). Reproductive Biology of Eukaryotic Algae. In: Johri, B.M., Srivastava, P.S. (eds) Reproductive Biology of Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50133-3_5

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50133-3_5

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-50135-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-50133-3

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation