RRC ID 69077
著者 Irisarri I, Darienko T, Pröschold T, Fürst-Jansen JMR, Jamy M, de Vries J.
タイトル Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants.
ジャーナル Proc Biol Sci
Abstract Streptophytes are one of the major groups of the green lineage (Chloroplastida or Viridiplantae). During one billion years of evolution, streptophytes have radiated into an astounding diversity of uni- and multicellular green algae as well as land plants. Most divergent from land plants is a clade formed by Mesostigmatophyceae, Spirotaenia spp. and Chlorokybophyceae. All three lineages are species-poor and the Chlorokybophyceae consist of a single described species, Chlorokybus atmophyticus. In this study, we used phylogenomic analyses to shed light into the diversity within Chlorokybus using a sampling of isolates across its known distribution. We uncovered a consistent deep genetic structure within the Chlorokybus isolates, which prompted us to formally extend the Chlorokybophyceae by describing four new species. Gene expression differences among Chlorokybus species suggest certain constitutive variability that might influence their response to environmental factors. Failure to account for this diversity can hamper comparative genomic studies aiming to understand the evolution of stress response across streptophytes. Our data highlight that future studies on the evolution of plant form and function can tap into an unknown diversity at key deep branches of the streptophytes.
巻・号 288(1963)
ページ 20212168
公開日 2021-11-24
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2021.2168
PMID 34814752
PMC PMC8611356
MeSH Chlorophyta* / genetics Embryophyta* / genetics Evolution, Molecular Genome Phylogeny Plants / genetics
IF 4.638
リソース情報
藻類 NIES-160