Dictyochloropsis reticulata

Dictyochloropsis reticulata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Viridiplantae
Phylum:	Chlorophyta
Class:	Trebouxiophyceae
Order:	Microthamniales
Genus:	Dictyochloropsis
Species:	D. reticulata
Binomial name
Dictyochloropsis reticulata Tschermak-Woess (1984)

Dictyochloropsis reticulata is a species of green algae in the Microthamniales. It is a known as a photobiont (photosynthetic symbiont) with several lichen species, like Lobaria pulmonaria, but also as a free-living soil alga as well.^[1] Phylogenetic analysis of rRNA sequence data revealed that the species shares a sister group relationship with two other green algae that lack motile stages, Chlorella saccharophila and C. luteoviridis.^[2]

References

1. ^ Tschermak-Woess E. (1951). Myrmecia reticulata as a phycobiont and free-living―free-living Trebouxia―the problem of Stenocybe septata. Lichenologist 10: 69—79.
2. ^ Friedl T. (1995). Inferring taxonomic positions and testing genus level assignments in coccoid green lichen algae: a phylogenetic analysis of 18S ribosomal RNA sequences from Dictyochloropsis reticulata and from members of the genus Myrmecia (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae cl. nov.). Journal of Phycology 31(4): 632-639.