“…Photosynthetic accessory pigments of phycobiliproteins have been extensively studied in the blue-green alga and in some species of the red alga (O'hEocha, 1965). However, there are conflicts between the identifications of various types of pigments in identical species of algae (Kikuchi et al, 1979;Zeng et al, 1984), as well as for criteria of biliprotein purity (Gantt, 1981;Glazer & Hixon, 1975;Glazer et al, 1982). Phycobiliproteins have been purified using various methods including ion exchange chromatographies, reverse phase partition chromatography, gel filtration, preparative electrophoresis and even gradient centrifugation (Swanson & Galzer, 1990).…”