Chlamydomonas

Pröschold, Thomas, Darienko, Tatyana, Krienitz, Lothar & Coleman, Annette W., 2018, Chlamydomonas schloesseri sp. nov. (Chlamydophyceae, Chlorophyta) revealed by morphology, autolysin cross experiments, and multiple gene analyses, Phytotaxa 362 (1), pp. 21-38 : 34

Beyond Chlamydomonas

Our phylogenetic studies have clearly revealed that C. debaryana is closely related to the other species of Chlamydomonas , as was indicated by autolysin experiments (Schlösser, 1976, 1981, 1984, Matsuda et al., 1987). The SSU/ITS phylogeny demonstrated that C. debaryana seems to be more closely related to the Tetrabaenaceae , which was confirmed by approximately unbiased tests of user-defined trees. The phylogenies using ITS and rbc L revealed that this species represents an independent lineage among the Core- Reinhardtinia. Therefore, C. debaryana is not a member of Chlamydomonas and represents its own genus, which we propose here as follows: