Chapter 1 An introduction to algal phylogeny and phylogenetic methods

Chapter 2 Molecular systematics of oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria

Chapter 3 The origin of plastids and their spread via secondary symbiosis

Chapter 4 The evolution of the Green Algae

Chapter 5 Charophyte evolution and the origin of land plants

Chapter 6 A molecular perspective on red algal evolution: focus on the Florideophycidae

Chapter 7 Division Glaucocystophyta

Chapter 8 The complete sequence of the Cyanophora paradoxa cyanelle genome (Glaucocystophyceae)

Chapter 9 The evolution of cryptophytes

Chapter 10 Division Chlorarachniophyta

Chapter 11 Phylogenetic relationships of the ‘golden algae’ (haptophytes, heterokont chromophytes) and their plastids

Chapter 12 Molecular and morphological phylogenies of kelp and associated brown algae

Chapter 13 Small-subunit ribosomal RNA sequences from selected dinoflagellates: testing classical evolutionary hypotheses with molecular systematic methods