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Answers.com (previously GuruNet), New York City & Jerusalem: Coccolithophorida.
AYMA Agua y Medio Ambiente, Sevilla: Atlas of Microorganisms. Go to: Algae.
The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley:
The Lake Winnipeg Algal Flora.
Late Ordovician algae. See also:
Fossil Plants.
Images from the UCMP collections.
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: "Green Algae": Systematics, Part 2, The Charophytes.
B. Bomfleur et al. (2010): Thalloid organisms and the fossil record - New perspectives from the Transantarctic Mountains. PDF file, Plant Signal Behav., 5: 293-295.
George Booth, The Fish Information Service: Algae. Easy to understand information.
Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH: Center for Algal Microscopy. Images and links about algae.
Mark Buchheim, Department of Biological Science, University of Tulsa, OK: deepestgreen. A website for the study of green algal diversity - a coordinated research effort for the phylogenetic investigation of the Chlorophyta. The Chlorophyta is one of two branches of the Viridiplantae (Green Plant) lineage. The Chlorophyta includes extant members that possess a fossil record that extends back into the Precambrian.
Charophytes. A journal dedicated to the promotion of research and communication about charophytes.
! Michael Clayton, Department of Botany,
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Instructional Technology (BotIT).
Some image collections. Excellent! Go to:
Chlorophyta
The Delwiche Lab, Molecular Systematics: Charophycean Green Algae.
Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.: Scientific stock photography library. Light microscope pictures and electron microscopy images featuring science and biomedical microscopy photos. Go to Algae.
Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). A service of USRA, sponsored by NASA Goddard. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. Browse EPODs by Related Fields, such as Coccolithophore bloom in the Celtic Sea.
Anthony G. Futcher, Columbia Union College, Maryland: Plant Diversity. A lot of facts about plant groups, fungi, plant-like protists, and monerans, including taxonomy, life cycles, general structure, and representative genera. Go to: Division Chlorophyta - Green Algae.
Janus Goulding (Derek Keats, Botany Department at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town) South Africa): Classification of Algae: where do they fit the broad scheme of things?
! Linda E. Graham and Lee W. Wilcox, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Algae. A textbook (published by Prentice Hall), brief contents, including some pictures.
Michael Guiry, Martin Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland,
Galway, Ireland:
What are Algae?
A basic guide to algae, including freshwater, terrestrial and marine
algae (seaweeds). See also:
The Seaweed Site.
This site is a source of general information on all aspects of marine algae.
M.D. Guiry and E. Nic Dhonncha (project currently financed from the NUI, Galway, Environmental Change Institute funded by the Higher Education Authority (PRTLI Cycle II) in Ireland for 2000-2002): AlgaeBase. AlgaeBase is a dynamic, searchable database that stores information on the scientific names of seaweeds (including seagrasses), particularly taxonomic and distributional details. More than 20,000 seaweed and seagrass names are listed at present, but more are added each day. The data are being updated continually.
Till Hanebuth, Bastian Roters and Karl-Heinz Baumann, FB 05 Research group Sedimentology and Palaeoceanography, Bremen University, Germany: What are coccolithophores?
J. Hill and K. Davis, Geology Rocks: The Use Of Diatoms As Palaeoenvironmental Indicators.
Patrick Honecker, University of Cologne: Ancestors of land plants revealed.
! International "Fossil Algae" Association (IFAA). The IFAA is a non-profit organization interested in promoting the study of fossil algae, e.g. taxonomy, morphology, biology, biostratigraphy, palaeo-ecology and mineralization. Go to the archives. Reports, collections, reprints.
International Research Group on Charophytes (IRGC). The aims of IRGC are to promote and coordinate international cooperation in charophyte research, including living and fossil material of all geological periods, and to encourage the integration and synthesis of all aspects of both botanical and paleobotanical study of charophytes. Visit the IRGC photoalbum.
! Derek Keats, Botany Department at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town) South Africa: Introduction to algae (A virtual slide show), and The World of Algae.
! M. Krings, LMU München: Unkalzifizierte fossile Makroalgen. Scientific project report (in German).
Landelijk Informatiecentrum voor Kranswieren (LIK), The Netherlands: Drawings and photos of recent charophyte species in the Netherlands (in Dutch).
F. Leliaert et al.: Into the deep: new discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny. PDF file, BioEssays.
Frederik Leliaert et al.: Phylogeny and Molecular Evolution of the Green Algae. PDF file, Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences.
! Biological Sciences, Ohio State University, Lima:
Plant
Biology at OSU Lima. Go to:
Algae.
Plant anatomical characteristics.
Ruta B. Limaye et al. (2007): Non-pollen palynomorphs as potential palaeoenvironmental indicators in the Late Quaternary sediments of the west coast of India. PDF file, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 92, NO. 10.
Steven T. LoDuca and Sigrid Berger, International Fossil Algae Association (IFAA): Fossil Dasycladales.
C. Martín-Closas et al. (2009): Triassic charophytes from Slovenia: palaeogeographic implications. Abstract, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 252.
C. Martín-Closas (2003): The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: a review. PDF file, Geologica Acta, 1: 315-338.
Martin C. Mathes, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA: General Botany. This course is designed to give the students a broad background in the traditional subject matter of botany. This includes topics on organisms in the plant kingdom as well as organisms not in the plant kingdom but which affect the growth ecology or evolution of plants (e.g., selected bacteria, fungi, and selected protists).
Richard M. McCourt et al. (2004): Charophyte algae and land plant origins. PDF file, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19.
! L.K. Medlin (2009): Haptophyte algae (Haptophyta), and Diatoms (Bacillariophyta). PDF files, In: S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.): The Timetree of Life (see here).
G.L. Mullins et al, Department of Geology, University of Leicester: The phytoPal project. About Proterozoic and Palaeozoic phytoplankton (fossil cysts of acritarchs, the phycomata of prasinophyte algae and very rare zygotes of zygnematalean algae).
! Karl J. Niklas and Ulrich Kutschera (2010): The evolution of the land plant life cycle. PDF file, New Phytologist, 185: 27-41.
Karl J. Niklas & Tom Silva, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Introductory Botany. Review Topics, Review of Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes- Common Links Between Each Group of Plants.
Charles J. O´Kelly and and Tim Littlejohn: Peridinium. The Protist Image Database.
Petralga. The PETRALGA (PErmian & TRiassic ALGAe) Project was initiated in order to provide useful palaeontological tools for both Scientific Institutions and Industry.
Z.A. Popper and M.G. Tuohy (2010): Beyond the Green: Understanding the Evolutionary Puzzle of Plant and Algal Cell Walls. PDF file, Plant Physiology, 53: 373-383.
Protist Information Server, Japan (supported by the "Soken-Taxa" project "Construction of Biological Image Databases" at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and by the "Bio-Resource" project "Fundamental research and development for databasing and networking culture collection information" at Japan Science and Technology Corporation). This server is providing 59932 images of protists (575+ genera, 2492+ species, 11645 samples) and 1294 movie clips as research and educational resources. See also: The Protist Movie Database.
Michael W. Rasser, Institute of Paleontology, Vienna: Fossil Coralline Algae.
Department of Botany, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Algae Research. Go to: Classification, and Algae Links.
Geology Collection, Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOES), University of Southampton: SOES Geology Collection / Fossils / Algae and Stromatoporoids.
Hans Steur, Ellecom, The Netherlands: Hans´ Paleobotany Pages. Fossil plant images from the oldest land plants. Go to: Prototaxites.
Ralph E. Taggart, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology/Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing: BOT335 Lecture Schedule. Marine Macrophytic Algae.
! Thomas N. Taylor and Michael Krings (2005): Fossil microorganisms and land plants: Associations and interactions. PDF file, Symbiosis, 40: 119-135.
Teacher Certification: The Algae Gallery. Including some links to other algae websites.
Bernard Teyssèdre, Paris: Are the green algae (phylum Viridiplantae) two billion years old? Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology: Article 2006/03.
Sebastian Trapp, Bremen University: Charophytes in man-made lakes in Bremen, Germany.
Sabina Wodniok et al. (2011):
Origin
of land plants: Do conjugating green algae. PDF file,
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 11: 104.
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