prasinophyceans

Noun

prasinophycean (plural prasinophyceans)

1. 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, →DOI

   Synonyms:

   prasinophyte