Meanings
plural prasinophyceans
- Any green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
Like other chlorophyte genomes with a low proportion of non-coding sequences, notably their prasinophycean and pedinophycean homologs [15, 18, 20 ], both chlorodendrophycean cpDNAs are very poor in small repeats (Table 1 ).
2016 February 6, “Distinctive Architecture of the Chloroplast Genome in the Chlorodendrophycean Green Algae Scherffelia dubia and Tetraselmis sp. CCMP 881”, in PLOS ONE, →DOISynonyms: prasinophyte
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny green alga of the class Prasinophyceae.
Origin
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