ArticleFrontiers in plant science2021
Spatial and Temporal Variations in Pigment and Species Compositions of Snow Algae on Mt. Tateyama in Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
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- Enhancing DNA recovery in low-biomass snow algae samples: a comparative study of extraction methods and their effect on community composition.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Community-driven variations in snow algae color modulate snow albedo reduction.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Remote Antarctic Island reveals unique algal dynamics in snow and ice.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Colonization history of snow algae on Hawai'i island.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Novel insights in cryptic diversity of snow and glacier ice algae communities combining 18S rRNA gene and ITS2 amplicon sequencing.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- The snow alga Chloromonas kaweckae sp. nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) causes green surface blooms in the high tatras (Slovakia) and tolerates high irradiance.Journal of phycology · 2023Article
- Novel parasitic chytrids infecting snow algae in an alpine snow ecosystem in Japan.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Evolution and function of red pigmentation in land plants.Annals of botany · 2022Review
- Pigment signatures of algal communities and their implications for glacier surface darkening.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Snow algae are photosynthetic microbes that inhabit the melting snow surface in alpine and polar regions. We analyzed the pigment and species composition of colored snow collected on Mt. Tateyama in Japan during the melting seasons of 2015 and 2016. High-performance liquid chromatographic analyses of the pigments extracted from the colored snow showed that their composition varied within the study area and were classified into four types: Type A (astaxanthin-monoester dominant), Type B (medium astaxanthin-monoester content), Type C (abundant primary carotenoids and free-astaxanthin), and Type D (abundant primary carotenoids and astaxanthin diesters). Types A and B were most commonly observed in the study area, whereas Types C and D appeared only at specific sites. Analysis of the 18S ribosomal RNA (18S rRNA) gene revealed six major amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) of snow algae, belonging to the
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