John West

Viator vitreocola gen. et sp. nov. (Stylonematophyceae), a new red alga on drift glass debris in Oregon and Washington, USA

Gayle Hansen, John A West, Hwan Su Yoon, Christopher D Goodman, Susan Loiseaux-de Goer, Giuseppe C Zuccarello

Journal article  |  2019  |  ALGAE

A new encrusting red alga was found growing abundantly on glass debris items that drifted ashore along the coasts of Oregon and Wa..

Reassessment of the classification of Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast phylogenomic analyses

Ma Chiela M Cremen, Frederik Leliaert, John West, Daryl W Lam, Satoshi Shimada, Juan M Lopez-Bautista, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2019  |  MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Bryopsidales is a morphologically diverse group of mainly marine green macroalgae characterized by a siphonous structure. The ..

Non-monophyly of Bostrychia simpliciuscula (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): Multiple species with very similar morphologies, a revised taxonomy of cryptic species

Giuseppe C Zuccarello, John A West, Mitsunobu Kamiya

Journal article  |  2018  |  PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The discovery of a plethora of cryptic species in many algal groups has led to speculation as to the causes of this observation an..

Diversity of Chroothece (Rhodophyta, Stylonematales) including two new species

Marina Aboal, Iara Chapuis, Monica O Paiano, Pedro Sanchez, John A West, Brian A Whitton, Orlando Necchi

Journal article  |  2018  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Chroothece has been reported from a range of freshwater environments, including streams, shallow ponds, trickling water on cliffs ..

Marginal distribution and high heterozygosity of asexual Caloglossa vieillardii (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) along the Australian coasts

Mitsunobu Kamiya, Erika Saba, John A West

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

In animals and land plants, many asexual species originate through inter- or intraspecific crosses, and such heterozygous asexuals..

Analysis of chloroplast genomes and a supermatrix inform reclassification of the Rhodomelaceae (Rhodophyta)

Pilar Diaz-Tapia, Christine A Maggs, John A West, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

With over a thousand species, the Rhodomelaceae is the most species-rich family of red algae. While its genera have been assigned ..

Flora of drift plastics: a new red algal genus, Tsunamia transpacifica (Stylonematophyceae) from Japanese tsunami debris in the northeast Pacific Ocean

John A West, Gayle I Hansen, Takeaki Hanyuda, Giuseppe C Zuccarello

Journal article  |  2016  |  ALGAE

Floating debris provides substrates for dispersal of organisms by ocean currents, including algae that thrive on plastics. The 201..

Parallel evolution of highly conserved plastid genome architecture in red seaweeds and seed plants

JunMo Lee, Chung Hyun Cho, Seung In Park, Ji Won Choi, Hyun Suk Song, John A West, Debashish Bhattacharya, Hwan Su Yoon

Journal article  |  2016  |  BMC BIOLOGY

BACKGROUND: The red algae (Rhodophyta) diverged from the green algae and plants (Viridiplantae) over one billion years ago within ..

RHODENIGMA CONTORTUM, AN OBSCURE NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF RHODOGORGONALES (RHODOPHYTA) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA

John A West, Giuseppe C Zuccarello, Susan Loiseaux de Goer, Lambros A Stavrias, Heroen Verbruggen

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

An unknown microscopic, branched filamentous red alga was isolated into culture from coral fragments collected in Coral Bay, Weste..

Phylogeny and morphology of the freshwater red alga Nemalionopsis shawii (Rhodophyta, Thoreales) from Nepal

Orlando Necchi, John A West, Shiva K Rai, EK Ganesan, Natalia L Rossignolo, Susan L de Goer

Journal article  |  2016  |  PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Phylogenetic relationships and morphological characters are presented for a population of Nemalionopsis shawii Skuja collected fro..