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Ashira Roopnarain, Vincent M. Gray and Stuart Sym

Influence of nitrogen stress on Isochrysis galbana strain U4, a candidate forbiodiesel production

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Hexin Lv, Shiru Jia, Yupeng Xiao, Nannan Yuan and Yujie Dai

Growth characteristics of Nostoc flagelliforme at intermittent elevated CO2 concentrations

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Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis of the high triglyceride-producing
marine diatom, Fistulifera solaris sp. nov. (Bacillariophyceae)

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Miriam Windler, Dariia Bova, Anastasiia Kryvenda, Dietmar Straile, Ansgar Gruber and Peter G. Kroth

Influence of bacteria on cell size development and morphology of cultivated diatoms

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Patrick Rioual, Yanbin Lu, Guoqiang Chu, Bingqi Zhu and Xiaoping Yang

Morphometric variation of Seminavis pusilla (Bacillariophyceae) and its relationship tosalinity in inter-dune lakes of the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China

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Karolina Fuč íková, Paul O. Lewis and Louise A. Lewis

Widespread desert affiliation of trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta)
including discovery of three new desert genera

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Natalia Arakaki, Masahiro Suzuki and Suzanne Fredericq

Halarachnion (Furcellariaceae, Rhodophyta), a newly reported genus for the Gulf of Mexico,with the description of Halarachnion louisianensis sp. nov.

Volume 62, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 237–324

Mitsufumi Matsumoto, Shigeki Mayama, Michiko Nemoto, Yorikane Fukuda, Masaki Muto,
Tomoko Yoshino, Tadashi Matsunaga and Tsuyoshi Tanaka

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Wilson Thau Lym Yong, Jamie Yan Yung Chin, Vun Yee Thien and Suhaimi Yasir

Evaluation of growth rate and semi-refined carrageenan properties of tissue-cultured
Kappaphycus alvarezii (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales)

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Referees

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The JapaneseSociety ofPhycology

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Phycological Research
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Mitsunobu Kamiya
Faculty of Marine Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, JapanASSOCIATE EDITORS
Jaanika Blomster
Dept. of Environmental
Sciences, University ofHelsinki, Finland

Daiske Honda
Department of Biology,
Faculty of Science andEngineering, Konan
University, Japan

Mona Hoppenrath
Senckenberg ResearchInstitute, German
Centre for Marine
Biodiversity Research,
Germany

Mitsunori Iwataki
Asian Natural
Environmental ScienceCenter, University ofTokyo, Japan

Regine Jahn
Botanic Garden andBotanical Museum
Berlin-Dahlem, Freie
Universität Berlin,
Germany

Ulf Karsten
Institute of BiologicalSciences, University ofRostock, Germany

Christos Katsaros
Department of Botany,
Faculty of Biology,
University of Athens,
GreeceMasanobu Kawachi
Environmental Biology
Division, National
Institue forEnvironmental Studies,Japan

Jeong Ha Kim
Department ofBiological Sciences,
Sungkyunkwan
University, Korea

Tatyana A. Klochkova
Department of Biology,
Kongju National
University, Korea

Showe-Mei Lin
Institute of Marine
Biology, National
Taiwan Ocean
University, Taiwan

Ichiro Mine
Graduate School ofKuroshio Science,
Kochi University, Japan

Rei Narikawa
Department of Biological
Science, Shizuoka
University, Japan

Wendy Nelson
National Institute ofWater & AtmosphericResearch & SBS,
University of Auckland,
New Zealand

Gregory N. Nishihara
Institute of East China
Sea Research,
Nagasaki University,
Japan

Tatsufumi Okino
Faculty of Environmental
Earth Science,
Hokkaido University,
Japan

Hiroyuki Sekimoto
Department of Chemicaland Biological Sciences,
Faculty of Science,
Japan Women’sUniversity, Japan

Kensuke Toyoda
Department of Biology,
Keio University, Japan

John A. West
School of Botany,
University ofMelbourne, Australia

Giuseppe C. Zuccarello
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THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF PHYCOLOGY We invite anyone who is interested in any aspect of phycology to become a member of the Society. Asa member you will receive Phycological Research and the Japanese Journalof Phycology free of charge. The annual membership fee for individuals¥8000. Members who reside outside Japan will receive only the English
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ADDRESS FOR EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE Mitsunobu Kamiya,
Faculty of Marine Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, 1-1 Gakuencho,Obama, Fukui 917-0003, Japan (E-mail: mkamiya@fpu.ac.jp).

Copyright © 2014 Japanese Society of Phycology.
Cover Desert-dwelling algae and their habitat. Top: Microscopic green
algae are members of taxonomically diverse biological soil crust communities that occur in arid lands worldwide. San Rafael Swell, a sedimentaryrock formation in south-central Utah, U.S.A., has well developed soil crustcommunities. (Photo by L.A. Lewis). Bottom, from left to right: Chloropyrulasp., Leptochlorella sp., and Myrmecia sp., green algae of the class Trebouxiophyceae found in desert soil crusts in California, Israel, and New Mexico,
respectively (Photos by K. Fučíková). See Fučíková et al. in this issue fordetails.

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The Japanese Society of PhycologyOfficers for 2013–2014
President: Jiro Tanaka Tokyo University of Marine
Japan; Shinya Yoshikawa Fukui Prefectural
Science and Technology, JapanUniversity, Japan
Secretary: Hidekazu Suzuki Tokyo University of Marine
Public Relations Secretary: Kensuke Toyoda
Science and Technology, Japan
Keio University, Japan
Treasurer: Takanori Matsuoka Nippon Dental University,
Secretary for International Affairs: Shin-ichiro Abe
Tokyo, Japan
National Research Institute, Fisheries Research Agency,
Membership Secretary: Satoko Sekida Kochi University,
Japan
Members of Executive Council 2013–2014

Put O. Ang Jr. The Chinese University of HongKong, China
Taira Enomoto Kobe University, Japan
Daisuke Fujita Tokyo University of Marine Scienceand Technology, Japan
Masahiko Idei Bunkyo University, Japan
Masanobu Kawachi National Institute forEnvironmental Studies, Japan
Kazuhiro Kogame Hokkaido University, Japan
Kazuyoshi Kuwano Nagasaki University, Japan
Ichiro Mine Kochi University, Japan
Daisuke Muraoka Tohoku National Fisheries
Research Institute, Japan

Tamotsu Nagumo The Nippon Dental University, Japan
Takeshi Nakayama University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wendy A. Nelson The National Institute of Waterand Atmospheric Research, New ZealandTadahide Noro Kagoshima University, JapanClaude E. Payri Institut de Recherche pour leDeveloppement, FranceHidetoshi Sakayama Kobe University, Japan
Yukihiko Serisawa University of Yamanashi, Japan
Yoshihiro Shiraiwa University of Tsukuba, Japan
Shinya Uwai Niigata University, Japan
Goro Yoshida National Research Institute ofFisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Japan

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