Dictyochloropsis reticulata is a species of green alga in the Trebouxiales. 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]
| Dictyochloropsis reticulata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| (unranked): | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | Trebouxiophyceae |
| Order: | Trebouxiales |
| Family: | Trebouxiaceae |
| Genus: | Dictyochloropsis |
| Species: | D. reticulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Dictyochloropsis reticulata (Tschermak-Woess) Tschermak-Woess
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References edit
- ^ Tschermak-Woess, E. (1978). "Myrmecia reticulata as a phycobiont and free-living—free-living Trebouxia— The problem of Stenocybe septata". The Lichenologist. 10 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1017/s0024282978000080.
- ^ Friedl, Thomas (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.)1". Journal of Phycology. 31 (4). Wiley: 632–639. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.1995.tb02559.x.
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