Systematics of the section Virescentia of the genus Batrachospermum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) in Brazil

dc.contributor.authorAgostinho, Douglas de Castro [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorNecchi Júnior, Orlando [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-27T11:55:57Z
dc.date.available2015-04-27T11:55:57Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis study evaluated the species level taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships among species of the section Virescentia of the genus Batrachospermum focusing on specimens from Brazil and other regions of the world. Molecular data (sequences of the plastid-encoded RuBisCO large-subunit gene, rbcL; and the barcode region of the mitochondrial encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1, cox1) were generated, and morphological characters described for 13 populations. Molecular analyses of rbcL sequences revealed the existence of three well-supported clades with evident biogeographic trends, containing sequences of specimens of either North America (USA), Asia (Japan) or Brazil. Similarly, analysis of cox1 sequences (slightly different taxon sampling) also revealed three clades, containing specimens of either North America (USA), Europe (Norway) or Brazil. The three species recognized from Brazil in a previous study based on morphological data (Batrachospermum helminthosum, B. sirodotii and B. vogesiacum) could not be distinguished by molecular or morphological data. A new species was proposed for Brazilian specimens based on molecular and morphological evidence. Batrachospermum viride-brasiliense differed from the European species of the section Virescentia (B. bruziense, B. coerulescens, B. elegans, B. sirodotii and B. vogesiacum) by the longer carpogonia ( 40 lm) and larger carposporophytes ( 200 lm in diameter and 100 lm high) and carposporangia ( 19 lm long and 10 lm in diameter).en
dc.description.affiliationUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, Jardim Nazareth, CEP 15054000, SP, Brasil
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniversidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas de São José do Rio Preto
dc.description.sponsorshipConselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq 507228/2010-3
dc.description.sponsorshipIdCNPq 487566/2012-2
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP 2007/51270-7
dc.description.sponsorshipIdFAPESP 2008/00708-5
dc.format.extent561-570
dc.identifier.citationPhycologia, v. 53, n. 6, p. 561-570, 2014.
dc.identifier.doi10.2216/PH14-034.1
dc.identifier.issn0031-8884
dc.identifier.lattes8973982859569408
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/122675
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPhycologia
dc.relation.ispartofjcr1.798
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,678
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceCurrículo Lattes
dc.subjectBatrachospermalesen
dc.subjectBatrachospermumen
dc.subjectBatrachospermum viride-brasilienseen
dc.subjectBrazilen
dc.subjectcox1en
dc.subjectrbcLen
dc.subjectVirescentiaen
dc.titleSystematics of the section Virescentia of the genus Batrachospermum (Batrachospermales, Rhodophyta) in Brazilen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.lattes8973982859569408
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências Letras e Ciências Exatas, São José do Rio Pretopt

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