Chlamydomonadales, also known as Volvocales, are an order of flagellated or pseudociliated green algae, specifically of the Chlorophyceae. Chlamydomonadales...

and whose lab published a detailed phylogenetic tree of the Volvocales VIP - The Volvocales Information Project led by Dr. Aurora M. Nedelcu at University...

Chlamydomonas as defined using morphological data, was polyphyletic within Volvocales. Many species were subsequently reclassified (e.g., Oogamochlamys, Lobochlamys)...

appears to have evolved multiple times from isogamy; for example female Volvocales (a type of green algae) evolved from the plus mating type.: 222  Although...

volvocine algae: developmentalanalysis of embryogenesis in Astrephomene (Volvocales, Chlorophyta)". BMC Evol. Biol. 16 (1): 243. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0794-x...

appears to have evolved multiple times from isogamy; for example, female Volvocales (a type of green algae) evolved from the plus mating type.: 222  Although...

algae and cyanobacteria. Amongst the green algae especially, the group Volvocales are known to produce exopolysaccharides at a certain point in their life...

Chaetophorales Wille – 225 species Chlamydomonadales F.E.Fritsch (also known as Volvocales) – 1793 species Oedogoniales Heering – 792 species Sphaeropleales Luerssen...

orthologue to a gene for a mating type in the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In Volvocales, the plus mating type is the ancestor to female. In ciliates multiple...

polysaccharides (such as cellulose (a glucan)) or a variety of glycoproteins (Volvocales) or both. The inclusion of additional polysaccharides in algal cells walls...