The Luigi Provasoli Award is presented annually to the author(s) of the three, or fewer, outstanding papers published in the Journal of Phycology during the previous fiscal year.
2007 Matthew Johnson, Torstein Tengs, David Oldfach, and Diane K. Stoecker 2006. Sequestration, performance, and functional control of Cryptophyte plastids in the ciliate Myrionecta rubra (Ciliophora). J. Phycol. 42:1235-1246.
2006 Zingone, A., Percopo, I., Sims, P. A., and Sarno, D. 2005. Diversity in the genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae). I. A re-examination of the type material of S. costatum with the description of S. grevillei sp. nov. J. Phycol. 41:140–50. and Sarno, D., Kooistra, W. H. C. F, Medlin, L. K., Percopo, I., Zingone, A. 2005. Diversity in the genus Skeletonema (Bacillariophyceae). II. An assessment of the taxonomy of S. costatum-like species with the description of four new species. J. Phycol. 41:151–76.
2006 Parker, M. and Armbrust, E. V. 2005. Synergistic effects of light, temperature, and nitrogen source on transcription of genes for carbon and nitrogen metabolism in the centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillariophyceae). J. Phycol. 41:1142–53.
2006 Patron, N. J. and Keeling, P. J. 2005. Common evolutionary origin of starch biosynthetic enzymes in green and red algae. J. Phycol. 41:1131–41.
2004 Higgins, M.J., Molino, P. and Wetherbee, R. 2003 The structure and nanomechanical properties of the adhesive mucilage that mediates diatom-substratum adhesion and motility. J. Phycol 39: 1181-1193. and Higgins, M.J., Sader, J.E., Mulvaney, P. and Wetherbee, R. 2003 Probing the surface of living diatoms with atomic force microscopy: the nanostructure and nanomechanical properties of the mucilage layer. J. Phycol 39: 722-734.
2004 Okomoto, O. K. and Hastings, J. W. 2003. Novel dinoglagellate clock-related genes identified through microarray analysis. J. Phycol. 39: 519-526.
2004 Schmid, A.-M. M. 2003. Endobacteria in the diatom Pinnularia (Bacillariophyceae). I. "Scattered ct-nucleoids" explained: DAPI_DNA complexes stem from exoplastidial bacteria boring into the chloroplasts. J. Phycol. 39: 122-138. and Schmid, A.-M. M. Endobacteria in the diatom Pinnularia (Bacillariophyceae). II. Host cell cycle-dependent translocation and transient chloroplast scars. J. Phycol. 39: 139-153.
2002 Litaker, W. Vandersea, M.W. Kibler, S.R. Madden, V.J. Noga, E.J. and Tester, P.A. 2002. Life cycle of the heterotrophic dionflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida (Dinophyceae). J. Phycol. 38: 1261-1267.
2002 Burkholder, J. and Glasgow, H. 2002. Life cycle and toxicity of Pfiesteria piscicida revisited J. Phycol. 38: 442-463.
2001 Zirbel, M.J., F. Veron and M.I. Latz. 2000. The reversible effect of flow on the morphology of Ceratocorys horrida (Perindiniales, Dionophyta). J. Phycol. 36: 46-58.
2000 Santelices, B., J.A. Correa, D. Aedo, V. Flores, M. Hormazabal and P. Sanchez. 1999. Convergent biological processes in coalescing Rhodophyta. J. Phycol. 35: 1127-1149.
2000 Schaffelke B. 1999. Particulate organic matter as an alternative nutrient source for tropical Sargassum species (Fucales, Phaeophyceae). J. Phycol. 35: 1158-1161.
1998 Kobl, I., D.L. Kirk and R. Schmitt. Quantitative PCR data falsify the chromosomal endoreduplication hypothesis for Volvox carteri (Volvocales, Chlorophyta). J. Phycol. 34: 981-988.
1997 Lavau, S., G.W. Saunders and R. Wetherbee. A phylogenetic analysis of the Synurophyceae using molecular data and scale case morphology. J. Phycol. 33: 135-151.
1996 Goff, L.J., D.A. Moon, P. Nyvall, B. Stache, K. Mangin, and G. Zuccarello. The evolution of parasitism in the red algae: molecular comparisons of adelphoparasites and their hosts. J. Phycol. 32: 297-312.
1996 Richardson, T.L., A.M. Ciotti, J.J. Cullen and T.A. Villareal. Physiological and opitical properties of Rhizosolenia formosa (Bacillariophyceae) in the context of open-ocean vertical migration. J. Phycol. 32:741-757.
1995 Julie LaRoche, Helen Murray, Monica Orellana and Jan Newton. Flavodoxin expression as an indicator of iron limitation in marine diatoms. J. Phycol. 31:520-530.
1994 Christine A. Maggs, Susan E. Douglas and Carolyn J. Bird. 1992. A molecular and morphological analysis of the Grymnogongrus devoniensis (Rhodophyta) complex in the North Atlantic. J. Phycol. 28:214-232
1994 Max Bothwell, Darren Sherbot, Andre C. Roberge and Ralph J. Daley. 1993. Influence of natural ultaviolate radiation on lotic perphytic diatom community growth, biomass accrual, and species composition: short-term versus long-term effects. J. Phycol. 29-24-35.
1992 Stephen C. Maberly. 1990. Exogenous sources of inorganic carbon for photosynthesis by marine macroalgae. J. Phycol. 26:439-449.
1992 Deneb Karentz, James E. Cleaver and David L. Mitchell. 1991. Cell survivial characteristics and molecular responses of Antarctic phytoplankton to ultraviolet-B radiation. J. Phycol. 27:326-341.
1990 S. R. Fain, L.D. Druehl and D.L. Baillie. 1988. Repreat and single copy sequences are differentially conserved in the evolution of kelp chloroplast DNA. J. Phycol. 24:292-302.
1990 Lynda J. Goff and Annette W. Coleman. 1988. The use of plastid DNA restriction endonuclease patterns in delineating red algal species and populations. J. Phycol. 24:357-368.
1988 A. Michelle Wood, Russell Lande and Greta A. Fryxell. 1987. Quantitative genetic analysis of morphological variation in an Antarctic diatom grown at two light intensities. J. Phycol. 23:42-54.
1986 Lynda J. Goff and Annette W. Coleman. 1985. The role of secondary pit connections in red algal parasitism. J. Phycol. 21:483-508.
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