Taxonomic revision of Chordaria flagelliformis (Chordariales, Phaeophyceae) including novel use of the intragenic spacer region of rDNA for phylogenetic analysis
Taxonomic revision of Chordaria flagelliformis (Chordariales, Phaeophyceae) including novel use of the intragenic spacer region of rDNA for phylogenetic analysis
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Chordaria flagelliformis(Chordariales、Phaeophyceae)的分类学修订,包括新使用 rDNA 的基因内间隔区进行系统发育分析
DOI:
10.2216/i0031-8884-41-4-328.1
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发表时间:
2002
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影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
H. Kawai
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作者:
Sung‐Ho Kim;H. Kawai
Abstract Chordaria flagelliformis is widely distributed in the cold-water areas of the Northern Hemisphere, along the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Chordaria flagelliformis f. chordaeformis, one of the four new morphological forms first described by Kjellman from Spitsbergen, is characterized by its simple thallus (unbranched or with very few branches) and appears to have a narrower distributional range in colder-water areas compared to the typical form (f. flagelliformis). However, the taxonomic character used to distinguish this form is not always reliable, because of the great morphological plasticity of the species. Molecular phylogenetic analyses using the 5.8S, internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and intragenic spacer (IGS, between 26S and 5S) rDNA regions and Rubisco (almost complete rbcL gene and its spacer region between rbcL and rbcS) showed that C. flagelliformis is composed of three major genetic groups: ‘group 1’ (f. chordaeformis from Kamchatka, north Pacific), ‘group 2’ (f. chordaeformis from other areas) and ‘group 3’ (f. flagelliformis). ‘Group 2’ and ‘group 3’ were composed of two subgroups, corresponding to their Atlantic and Pacific populations. The lengths of the sequences of the ITS1 and ITS2 regions were relatively constant in each group and subgroup, and were considerably different between groups. This is the first report of the use of the 26S-5S IGS region for molecular phylogenetic analysis in any organism; the region was shown to be three to eight times more variable than the 5.8S–ITS region. On the basis of these analyses, C. flagelliformis f. flagelliformis was concluded to exhibit great morphological plasticity and to contain some specimens that are unbranched, whereas f. chordaeformis was more consistent in the number of branches. Chordaria flagelliformis f. chordaeformis is independent from C. flagelliformis sensu stricto, although the taxonomic relationships between the populations of Kamchatka and other areas are still unclear. We propose recognizing f. chordaeformis at the species level, as C. chordaeformis (Kjellman) Kawai & S.H. Kim stat. nov.