FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/fot.2018.009
Qi Zhang, Ling-ling Zheng, Tianli Li, Guoxiang Liu, Lirong Song
{"title":"Morphology and phylogeny of three planktonic Radiococcaceae sensu lato species (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyceae) from China, including the description of a new species Planktosphaeria hubeiensis sp. nov.","authors":"Qi Zhang, Ling-ling Zheng, Tianli Li, Guoxiang Liu, Lirong Song","doi":"10.5507/fot.2018.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/fot.2018.009","url":null,"abstract":"The family Radiococcaceae sensu lato, defined as colonial autospore-producing mucilaginous coccoid green algae, is widespread in terrestrial and freshwater habitats. Three species of Radiococcaceae sensu lato, including two Radiococcus species and one Planktosphaeria species, were described from China by light and electron microscopy. A new species of Planktosphaeria, Planktosphaeria hubeiensis sp. nov. was erected based on morphological comparisons and genetic analyses. Our phylogenetic analyses indicated that Radiococcaceae sensu lato is polyphyletic, and separated into three lineages. The Radiococcus species did not cluster into a monophyletic group in phylogenetic analyses; therefore the taxonomy of the genus Radiococcus should be revised in the future.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47499100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2018.006
B. Vijver, C. E. Wetzel, L. Ector
{"title":"Analysis of the type material of Planothidium delicatulum (Bacillariophyta) with the description of two new Planothidium species from the sub-Antarctic Region","authors":"B. Vijver, C. E. Wetzel, L. Ector","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2018.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2018.006","url":null,"abstract":"During a survey of the freshwater diatom flora on the sub-Antarctic islands of the southern Indian Ocean, two new Planothidium species were observed, showing some resemblance to Planothidium delicatulum. Therefore, the type material of Achnanthidium delicatulum Kutzing was analysed, a common species in northern hemisphere waterbodies that was later transferred to the genus Planothidium. Additionally the material of Types du Synopsis des Diatomees de Belgique n° 234, designated in 1980 as neotype for Achnanthes delicatula was investigated. This analysis showed that the population in Types n° 234 is not conspecific with Achnanthidium delicatulum but in fact is a population of Planothidium galaicum. Both Planothidium species in the investigated Antarctic material are described as new to science: P. lilianeanum Van de Vijver sp. nov. and P. australodelicatulum Van de Vijver, C.E.Wetzel et Ector sp. nov. The new species can be differentiated based on differences in valve outline, presence of ridges and silica outgrowths on the rapheless valve, the structure of the raphe and the shape and size of the central area. Notes on the ecology and distribution of the new Antarctic species are added. Achnanthidium delicatulum is formally lectotypified.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44709936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2018.008
A. Saber, J. Mareš, G. Guella, A. Anesi, Lenka Štenclová, M. Cantonati
{"title":"Polyphasic approach to a characteristic Ulva population from a limno-rheocrenic, mineral (chloride, sodium, sulphate) spring in the Siwa Oasis (Western Desert of Egypt)","authors":"A. Saber, J. Mareš, G. Guella, A. Anesi, Lenka Štenclová, M. Cantonati","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2018.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2018.008","url":null,"abstract":"An interesting population of ulvacean green algae was collected from a limno-rheocrenic, thermal, mineral (chloride, sodium, sulphate) spring known as \"Ain Abu Sherouf\" in the Siwa Oasis, the Western Desert of Egypt. A detailed combined investigation on its morphotaxonomy, autecology, and a multilocus sequence data set including the chloroplast-encoded rbcL gene and the nuclear-encoded nrDNA SSU and ITS allowed us to identify this population as Ulva flexuosa subsp. paradoxa (syn. Ulva paradoxa, Ulvales, Chlorophyta), although the algal thalli were in average narrower than usual in this taxon. Analysis of the molecular rbcL-ITS sequencing data demonstrated a close phylogenetic relationship of the studied population to two Ulva isolates from Japan and China and their taxonomic status was further discussed. The pigment profiling confirmed chlorophylls and carotenoids typical of the Ulvaceae (lutein, α/β-carotenes, violaxanthin, and neoxanthin). Lipidomic analysis revealed the presence of the monogalactosyl diacylglycerols (MGDG), digalactosyl diacylglycerols (DGDG), sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerols (SQDG), and diacylglyceryl N,N,N-trimethylhomoserine (DGTS) lipid classes. Presence of the plasma membrane DGTS lipids in remarkable proportion might be an adaptation to this nutrient-poor mineral spring habitat, with relatively low phosphorus values. The lower unsaturation index (UI) values of the plastidial DGDG and SQDG lipids are likely to reflect the need to maintain adequate membrane fluidity in this thermal mineral spring system. This polyphasic study not only extended our little knowledge on the distribution, autecology, and adaptive mechanisms of U. flexuosa subsp. paradoxa in the Saharan habitats of Africa, but also re-assessed and refined the taxonomic and phylogenetic affiliation of previously sampled close relatives from East Asia.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44774411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2018.003
Adil Y. AL-HANDAL, C. Pennesi
{"title":"Mastogloia wulffii, a new diatom (Bacillariophyceae) from the west coast of Sweden","authors":"Adil Y. AL-HANDAL, C. Pennesi","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2018.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2018.003","url":null,"abstract":"While collecting epiphytic diatom samples from the west coast of Sweden, a small Mastrogloia species has been observed and could not be matched with any of the described taxa. Based on both light and electron microscopes examination, this species has been described as new, Mastogloia wulffii sp. nov. and included in Mastogloia section Sulcatae. This species is very small with valve length not exceeding 16.3 µm. It is characterized by having a narrow, almost straight median depression on both sides of the sternum-raphe, no marginal ridge and with rounded areolae on valve mantle as well as having completely hyaline lateral sterna. A comparison with similar taxa is given. M. wulffii is a marine species growing in moderate numbers on the red alga Polyides rotunda which is widely distributed along the coast of Vrango Island, Sweden.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46221627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2017.024
F. Heidari, J. Zima, H. Riahi, T. Hauer
{"title":"New simple trichal cyanobacterial taxa isolated from radioactive thermal springs","authors":"F. Heidari, J. Zima, H. Riahi, T. Hauer","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2017.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2017.024","url":null,"abstract":"There are several places in the world where the level of natural radiation is unusually high, such as some regions of Ramsar and Abegarm-e-Mahallat in Iran. Such places are still insufficiently explored in terms of their biodiversity. In this study, strains isolated from six geothermal springs with elevated natural radiation were investigated. The highest concentration of 226Ra were 13,000 Bq.kg-1 in the soil and 130 Bq.l-1 in water respectively. The morphological and molecular analyses revealed, that the strains are not classifiable to any existing taxon. Therefore, they are described as new taxa for science. Based on results of our study, two earlier described species are transferred into newly established genus.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47065739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2018.007
Aydin Kaleli, M. Krzywda, A. Witkowski, C. Riaux-Gobin, C. Solak, I. Zgłobicka, T. Płociński, J. Grzonka, K. Kurzydłowski, A. Car, C. Desrosiers, Y. Kaska, K. Mccartney
{"title":"A new sediment dwelling and epizoic species of Olifantiella (Bacillariophyceae), with an account on the genus ultrastructure based on Focused Ion Beam nanocuts","authors":"Aydin Kaleli, M. Krzywda, A. Witkowski, C. Riaux-Gobin, C. Solak, I. Zgłobicka, T. Płociński, J. Grzonka, K. Kurzydłowski, A. Car, C. Desrosiers, Y. Kaska, K. Mccartney","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2018.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2018.007","url":null,"abstract":"The marine diatom Olifantiella Riaux-Gobin et Compere predominantly occurs in tropical Indo-Pacific coral reef environments. The genus has about a dozen validly published taxa and is characterized by transapically elongate striae composed of a macroareola, broad perforated girdle, and tubular buciniportula process of trumpet-shape. The valve mantle of taxa related to the generitype, O. mascarenica, have a canal-shaped structure around the valve at the face / mantle junction, while those to O. gorandiana have a simple mantle or strongly narrow canal and complex buciniportula composed of hollow processes. The geographic distribution of Olifantiella is expanded in this study to include species observed in loggerhead sea turtles scrapes from the Aegean Turkish coast and samples from the Turkish Black Sea and Adriatic Sea coasts. Olifantiella has also been identified in Martinique Island, Caribbean Sea. A transfer of Navicula infirmitata is proposed due to the areola and buciniportula structure, as Olifantiella infirmitata. Further, an application of the Focused Ion Beam (FIB) to a sequential cutting of frustules allows resolution of Olifantiella mascarenica valve ultrastructure.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47544306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2018.002
C. Kilgore, J. Johansen, Truc Mai, T. Hauer, D. Casamatta, C. Sheil
{"title":"Molecular characterization of Geitleria appalachiana sp. nov. (Nostocales, Cyanobacteria) and formation of Geitleriaceae fam. nov.","authors":"C. Kilgore, J. Johansen, Truc Mai, T. Hauer, D. Casamatta, C. Sheil","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2018.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2018.002","url":null,"abstract":"Geitleria was described from a limestone cave in Israel, and subsequently reported from caves of France, Romania, Spain, Florida, Costa Rica, and Cook Islands. It is morphologically unusual in that it has true branching, but no heterocytes. A morphologically distinct species of Geitleria was recently collected from a limestone cave in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, and is herein described as G. appalachiana sp. nov. Sequence data for 16S rRNA and rpoC1 loci for the species were obtained from field material using single filament PCR. Phylogenetic evidence indicates that Geitleria does not belong to any family in the Nostocales containing true-branching genera, i.e. Hapalosiphonaceae, Chlorogloeopsidaceae, and Symphyonemataceae, and consequently Geitleriaceae fam. nov. is established to contain this unique genus.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45951179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-03-31DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2017.023
P. Dvořák, Eva Jahodářová, D. Casamatta, P. Hašler, A. Poulíčková
{"title":"Difference without distinction? Gaps in cyanobacterial systematics; when more is just too much","authors":"P. Dvořák, Eva Jahodářová, D. Casamatta, P. Hašler, A. Poulíčková","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2017.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2017.023","url":null,"abstract":"Cyanobacteria are amongst the most abundant, ubiquitous, ecologically and evolutionarily significant microbes on Earth. Unique among the Bacteria in their capacity to be identified using morphology, understanding the evolutionary relationships and describing the diversity of this lineage is both important and challenging. The advent of modern sequencing technology has proven a boon to those studying cyanobacterial systematics as it has provided copious amounts of sequence data (mainly of the 16S rRNA gene sequence). However, this influx of data has also led to taxonomic confusion and recognition of polyphyly in many genera. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to describe this apparent paradox of increasing data yet poor phylogenetic resolutions by employing the Poisson Tree Process (PTP) algorithm and to propose some ameliorative efforts.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":"18 1","pages":"130-136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47346461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-03-31DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2017.013
F. Rimet, Nélida Abarca, A. Bouchez, Wolf-Henning Kusber, R. Jahn, M. Kahlert, F. Keck, M. Kelly, D. Mann, A. Piuz, R. Trobajo, K. Tapolczai, V. Vasselon, J. Zimmermann
{"title":"The potential of High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) of natural samples as a source of primary taxonomic information for reference libraries of diatom barcodes","authors":"F. Rimet, Nélida Abarca, A. Bouchez, Wolf-Henning Kusber, R. Jahn, M. Kahlert, F. Keck, M. Kelly, D. Mann, A. Piuz, R. Trobajo, K. Tapolczai, V. Vasselon, J. Zimmermann","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2017.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2017.013","url":null,"abstract":"Diatoms are used routinely to assess pollution level in rivers and lakes. Current methods are based on identification by light microscopy, which is laborious. An alternative is to identify species based on short DNA fragments and High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS). However a potential limitation is the incomplete coverage of species in reference barcode libraries. Usually these libraries are compiled by isolating cells, before culturing and sequencing them, which is tedious and often unsuccessful. Here we propose the use of rbcL sequences from environmental samples analysed by HTS. We set several criteria to ensure good sequence quality and correspondence with the target species observed in microscopy: the sequence needed to be abundant in the sample, and with no insertions nor deletions or stop codon, phylogenetic neighbour taxa had to correspond to neighbour taxonomic taxa expected from morphological observations. Four species from tropical rivers are given as examples, including one that is new to science.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":"18 1","pages":"37-54"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41354860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
FotteaPub Date : 2018-03-31DOI: 10.5507/FOT.2017.019
C. Riaux-Gobin, A. Witkowski, A. Igersheim, C. Lobban, Adil Y. AL-HANDAL, P. Compère
{"title":"Planothidium juandenovense sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Juan de Nova (Scattered Islands, Mozambique Channel) and other tropical environments: A new addition to the Planothidium delicatulum complex","authors":"C. Riaux-Gobin, A. Witkowski, A. Igersheim, C. Lobban, Adil Y. AL-HANDAL, P. Compère","doi":"10.5507/FOT.2017.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/FOT.2017.019","url":null,"abstract":"Planothidium juandenovense sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) is described from the marine tropical environments of Juan de Nova I. (Mozambique Channel), Rodrigues I. (Mascarene Archipelago) and from Guam (Northern Mariana Is., Pacific). This small and relatively rare taxon has short multiseriate striae on the sternum valve (SV), hooked raphe valve (RV) terminal raphe endings and no SV cavum or hoof-shaped area. This taxon has similarities with Planothidium delicatulum (Kutz.) Round et Bukht. and Planothidium septentrionale (Ostrup) Round et Bukht. ex Rumrich et al., but also differences: e.g. a relatively narrow and rhombic SV sternum, void of areolae, with vestigial radiate structures and an uninterrupted marginal SV elevated crest or 'crista marginalis'. P. juandenovense sp. nov. is compared to some other Achnanthales with short SV striae. Cocconeis quarnerensis var. lanceolata Jurilj and Planothidium quarnerense f. rhombica (Giffen) comb. nov. may be close to our new taxon.","PeriodicalId":55149,"journal":{"name":"Fottea","volume":"18 1","pages":"106-119"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2018-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43344863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}