Volvox globator

Volvox globator
Scientific classification
(unranked):Viridiplantae
Class:Chlorophyceae
Order:Chlamydomonadales
Family:Volvocaceae
Genus:Volvox
Species: V. globator
Binomial name
Volvox globator

Volvox globator is a species of green algae of the genus Volvox. It was originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 work Systema Naturae.[1] In 1856 its sexuality was described by Ferdinand Cohn and is the same as Sphaeroplea annulina.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Volvox globator Linnaeus". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. templatestyles stripmarker in |title= at position 19 (help)
  2. ↑ http://www.pnf.org/compendium/Ferdinand_Julius_Cohn.pdf%5Bfull+citation+needed%5D

Further reading

  • Mast, S. O. (1907). "Light reaction in lower organisms. II. Volvox globator". Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. 17 (2): 99–180. doi:10.1002/cne.920170202.
  • Mast, S. O. (1919). "Reversion in the sense of orientation to light in the colonial forms, Volvox globator and Pandorina morum". Journal of Experimental Zoology. 27 (3): 367–90. doi:10.1002/jez.1400270304.
  • Mast, S. O. (1932). "The rate of adaptation to light and to darkness in Volvox globator". Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie. 17 (3): 644–58. doi:10.1007/BF00340895.
  • Zimmermann, Walter (1925). "Die ungeschlechtliche Entwicklung von Volvox" [Asexual development of Volvox]. Die Naturwissenschaften (in German). 13 (19): 397–402. Bibcode:1925NW.....13..397Z. doi:10.1007/BF01560949.
  • Höhn, Stephanie; Hallmann, Armin (2011). "There is more than one way to turn a spherical cellular monolayer inside out: Type B embryo inversion in Volvox globator". BMC Biology. 9: 89. doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-89. PMC 3324393. PMID 22206406.


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