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    Guillardia

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    Source-identified Guillardia theta; Microscopy montage: transmitted light, chloroplast fluorescence and DNA staining; experimental colors. Framed for display
    Guillardia theta · Ryo Onuma, Neha Mishra, Shin-ya Miyagishima (contrast enhanced extract) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. ClassCryptophyceae
    4. OrderPyrenomonadales
    5. FamilyGeminigeraceae
    6. GenusGuillardia
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    1. cellular organisms cellular root
    2. Eukaryota domain
    3. Cryptophyceae class
    4. Pyrenomonadales order
    5. Geminigeraceae family
    6. Guillardia genus

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    Source-identified Guillardia theta; Microscopy montage: transmitted light, chloroplast fluorescence and DNA staining; experimental colors. Framed for display
    Species · Guillardia

    Guillardia theta

    Guillardia theta

    Guillardia theta is a unicellular cryptophyte alga with an unusually informative evolutionary history. Its plastid descends from a red alga incorporated into …