Origins of Algae and their Plastids - Bhattacharya, Debashish; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 1997)
An introduction to algal phylogeny and phylogenetic methods -- Molecular systematics of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria -- The origin of plastids and their spread via secondary symbiosis -- The evolution of the Green Algae -- Charophyte evolution and the origin of land plants -- A molecular perspective on red algal evolution: focus on the Florideophycidae -- Division Glaucocystophyta -- The complete sequence of the Cyanophora paradoxa cyanelle genome (Glaucocystophyceae) -- The evolution of cryptophytes -- Division Chlorarachniophyta -- Phylogenetic relationships of the 'golden algae' (haptophytes, heterokont chromophytes) and their plastids -- Molecular and morphological phylogenies of kelp and associated brown algae -- Small-subunit ribosomal RNA sequences from selected dinoflagellates: testing classical evolutionary hypotheses with molecular systematic methods -- Plastids in apicomplexan parasites -- Listed in Current Contents.
Keywords: Cell biology; Plant systematics; Plant taxonomy; Cell Biology; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.