Table 1.

Biological functions of algal CRYs, including comparative data from transgenic lines.

Type	(6-4) repair	(CPD) repair	Circadian clock	Sexual cycle	Photosynthesis: Components, apparatus	Other	References
● Cr pCRY			X	X			Forbes-Stovall et al., 2014; Müller et al., 2017: Kamrani et al., 2018
● Pt CryP					X	Xa	Juhas et al., 2014; König et al., 2017b
● Cr aCRY	X		X	X	X	X	Beel et al., 2012; Zou et al., 2017; Franz et al., 2018
● Pt CPF1	X		X		X	X	Coesel et al., 2009
● Ot CPF1	X		X				Heijde et al., 2010
● Ot CPF2 (CRY-DASH)		Xb	X				Heijde et al., 2010
● Cr CRY-DASH1					X	Xc	Rredhi et al., 2021

^a Photoreceptor network;

^b weak CPD activity;

^c growth curve;

Cr, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Ot, Ostreococcus tauri, Pt, Phaeodactylum tricornutum.