Sexual processesand phylogenetic relationships of a homothallic strain in the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex(Zygnematales, Charophyceae)
Sexual processesand phylogenetic relationships of a homothallic strain in the Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex(Zygnematales, Charophyceae)
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Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale 复合体中同宗菌株的性过程和系统发育关系(Zygnematales,Charophyceae)
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10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00806.x
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2010
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Tsuchikane;Y.;Sato;M.;Ootaki;T.,Kokubun;Y.;Nozaki;H.;Ito;M. &Sekimoto;H
Members of theClosterium peracerosum–strigosum–littorale(C. psl.) complex are unicellular charophycean algae in which there are two modes of zygospore formation, heterothallic and homothallic. A homothallic strain ofClosterium(designation, kodama20) was isolated from a Japanese rice paddy field. Based on alignment of the 1506 group‐I introns, which interrupt nuclear SSU rDNAs, homothallic kodama20 is most closely related to the heterothallic mating group II‐B, which is partially sexually isolated from group II‐A. Time‐lapse photography of the conjugation process in kodama20 revealed that most of the observed zygospores originated from one vegetative cell. The sexual conjugation process consisted of five stages: (1) cell division resulting in the formation of two sister gametangial cells from one vegetative cell, (2) formation of a sexual pair between the two sister gametangial cells (or between gametangial cells of another adjoined individual), (3) formation of conjugation papillae, (4) release of gametic protoplasts from both members of a pair, and (5) formation of the zygospore by protoplast fusion. For conjugation to progress, the cell density and light condition in the culture was critical. We suggested the presence of a conjugation promotion factor.