Phycological Research

PhycologicalResearch
Volume 63 䊉 Issue 2 䊉 April 2015

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Volume 63 • Issue 2 • April 2015..........................................................................................

Ichiro Mine, Satoko Sekida and Kazuo Okuda

Review: Cell wall and cell growth characteristics of giant-celled algae

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Alison R. Sherwood, Amy L. Carlile, Melissa A. Vaccarino and Jeffrey R. Johansen

Characterization of Hawaiian freshwater and terrestrial cyanobacteria reveals high diversity
and numerous putative endemics..........................................................................................
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Distribution and population dynamics of cryptomonads in a Chinese lake with three basins
varying in their trophic state

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Brajogopal Samanta and Punyasloke Bhadury

Thalassiosira sundarbana sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), an estuarine diatom from Sundarbans
mangrove ecoregion based on morphology and molecular phylogeny

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Kenneth Neil Mertens, Yoshihito Takano, Haifeng Gu, Aika Yamaguchi, Vera Pospelova,
Marianne Ellegaard and Kazumi Matsuoka

Cyst-theca relationship of a new dinoflagellate with a spiny round brown cyst, Protoperidinium
lewisiae sp. nov., and its comparison to the cyst of Oblea acanthocysta

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Wittaya Tawong, Tomohiro Nishimura, Hiroshi Sakanari, Shinya Sato, Haruo Yamaguchi andMasao Adachi

Characterization of Gambierdiscus and Coolia (Dinophyceae) isolates from Thailand based onmorphology and phylogeny

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Shuang Xia, Yingyin Cheng, Huan Zhu, Guoxiang Liu and Zhengyu Hu

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Tingting Liu, Kenneth Neil Mertens, Sofia Ribeiro, Marianne Ellegaard, Kazumi Matsuoka andHaifeng GuCyst-theca relationships and phylogenetic positions of Peridiniales (Dinophyceae) with
two anterior intercalary plates, with description of Archaeperidinium bailongense sp. nov.
and Protoperidinium fuzhouense sp. nov

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Christophe Vieira, Claude Payri and Olivier De Clerck

Research note: Overgrowth and killing of corals by the brown alga Lobophora hederacea(Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) on healthy reefs in New Caledonia: A new case of theepizoism syndrome

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Hiroshi Kawai, Takeaki Hanyuda, Thomas Mumford and J. Robert WaalandResearch note: An introduced population of Chorda asiatica (Chordaceae, Laminariales)in Puget Sound, Pacific coast of North America

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

Niels Daugbjerg
Department of Biology,
University of
Copenhagen, Denmark

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

Mitsunori Iwataki
Asian Natural
Environmental Science
Center, University ofTokyo, JapanRegine Jahn
Botanic Garden and
Botanical 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
Institute 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, JapanRei Narikawa
Department of BiologicalScience, 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 Chemical
and Biological Sciences,
Faculty of Science,
Japan Women’s
University, Japan

Kensuke Toyoda
Department of Biology,
Keio University, Japan

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

Giuseppe C. Zuccarello
School of BiologicalSciences, University ofWellington, New
Zealand

EDITORIAL SECRETARY
Shinya Sato
Faculty of Marine Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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Cover Examples of Hawaiian cyanobacterial diversity. Left: “Fisherella”
sp. (will be described as a new genus), a collection from a cave wall on
the island of Kauai (Photo by M. Vaccarino). Middle: Brasilonema octagenarum, collected from a mossy bank along a hiking trail on the islandof Oahu (Photo by M. Vaccarino). Right: Pleurocapsa sp., from a stream
on the island of Oahu. See Sherwood et al. in this issue for details.

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Ichiro Mine Kochi University, Japan
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