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Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions

The genus Spirogyra is abundant in freshwater habitats worldwide, and comprises approximately 380 species. Species assignment is often difficult because identification is based on the characteristics of sexual reproduction in wild-collected samples and spores produced in the field or laboratory cult...

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Autores principales: Takano, Tomoyuki, Higuchi, Sumio, Ikegaya, Hisato, Matsuzaki, Ryo, Kawachi, Masanobu, Takahashi, Fumio, Nozaki, Hisayoshi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6533312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43454-6
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author Takano, Tomoyuki
Higuchi, Sumio
Ikegaya, Hisato
Matsuzaki, Ryo
Kawachi, Masanobu
Takahashi, Fumio
Nozaki, Hisayoshi
author_facet Takano, Tomoyuki
Higuchi, Sumio
Ikegaya, Hisato
Matsuzaki, Ryo
Kawachi, Masanobu
Takahashi, Fumio
Nozaki, Hisayoshi
author_sort Takano, Tomoyuki
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description The genus Spirogyra is abundant in freshwater habitats worldwide, and comprises approximately 380 species. Species assignment is often difficult because identification is based on the characteristics of sexual reproduction in wild-collected samples and spores produced in the field or laboratory culture. We developed an identification procedure based on an improved methodology for inducing sexual conjugation in laboratory-cultivated filaments. We tested the modified procedure on 52 newly established and genetically different strains collected from diverse localities in Japan. We induced conjugation or aplanospore formation under controlled laboratory conditions in 15 of the 52 strains, which allowed us to identify 13 species. Two of the thirteen species were assignable to a related but taxonomically uncertain genus, Temnogyra, based on the unique characteristics of sexual reproduction. Our phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the two Temnogyra species are included in a large clade comprising many species of Spirogyra. Thus, separation of Temnogyra from Spirogyra may be untenable, much as the separation of Sirogonium from Spirogyra is not supported by molecular analyses.
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spelling pubmed-65333122019-06-03 Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions Takano, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Sumio Ikegaya, Hisato Matsuzaki, Ryo Kawachi, Masanobu Takahashi, Fumio Nozaki, Hisayoshi Sci Rep Article The genus Spirogyra is abundant in freshwater habitats worldwide, and comprises approximately 380 species. Species assignment is often difficult because identification is based on the characteristics of sexual reproduction in wild-collected samples and spores produced in the field or laboratory culture. We developed an identification procedure based on an improved methodology for inducing sexual conjugation in laboratory-cultivated filaments. We tested the modified procedure on 52 newly established and genetically different strains collected from diverse localities in Japan. We induced conjugation or aplanospore formation under controlled laboratory conditions in 15 of the 52 strains, which allowed us to identify 13 species. Two of the thirteen species were assignable to a related but taxonomically uncertain genus, Temnogyra, based on the unique characteristics of sexual reproduction. Our phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the two Temnogyra species are included in a large clade comprising many species of Spirogyra. Thus, separation of Temnogyra from Spirogyra may be untenable, much as the separation of Sirogonium from Spirogyra is not supported by molecular analyses. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6533312/ /pubmed/31123266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43454-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Takano, Tomoyuki
Higuchi, Sumio
Ikegaya, Hisato
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Kawachi, Masanobu
Takahashi, Fumio
Nozaki, Hisayoshi
Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title_full Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title_fullStr Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title_full_unstemmed Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title_short Identification of 13 Spirogyra species (Zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
title_sort identification of 13 spirogyra species (zygnemataceae) by traits of sexual reproduction induced under laboratory culture conditions
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6533312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31123266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43454-6
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