Evolutionary dynamics of the algae: Understanding adaptive potential under environmental change

Genomic adaptations to an endolithic lifestyle in the coral-associated alga Ostreobium

Cintia Iha, Katherine E Dougan, Javier A Varela, Viridiana Avila, Christopher J Jackson, Kenny A Bogaert, Yibi Chen, Louise M Judd, Ryan Wick, Kathryn E Holt, Marisa M Pasella, Francesco Ricci, Sonja I Repetti, Monica Medina, Vanessa R Marcelino, Cheong Xin Chan, Heroen Verbruggen

2021-04-12

The green alga Ostreobium is an important coral holobiont member, playing key roles in skeletal decalcification and providing phot..

DNA sequencing and anatomy demonstrate that Pacific Codium simulans is a genetically variable species found in the floras of Bermuda and Florida

Craig W Schneider, Daryl W Lam, Heroen Verbruggen

2019-07-16

When DNA sequences from Bermuda plants described as Codium isthmocladum ssp. clavatum and a recent collection from Florida origina..

Dark offshoot: Phylogenomic data sheds light on the evolutionary history of a new species of cave brittle star

Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Tania Pineda-Enriquez, Francisco Marquez-Borras, Francisco A Solis-Marin, Heroen Verbruggen, Andrew F Hugall, Timothy D O'Hara

2019-07-01

Caves are a useful system for testing evolutionary and biogeographic hypotheses, as they are isolated, and their environmental con..

Global biogeographic structuring of tropical shallow-water brittle stars

Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Heroen Verbruggen, Andrew F Hugall, Timothy D O'Hara

2019-07-01

AIM: Biogeographic barriers emerged in the tropical oceans as continental masses moved with plate tectonics, and as the tropics co..

Patterns and drivers of species diversity in the Indo-Pacific red seaweed Portieria

Frederik Leliaert, Dioli Ann Payo, Carlos Frederico D Gurgel, Tom Schils, Stefano GA Draisma, Gary W Saunders, Mitsunobu Kamiya, Alison R Sherwood, Showe-Mei Lin, John M Huisman, Line Le Gall, Robert J Anderson, John J Bolton, Lydiane Mattio, Mayalen Zubia, Tracey Spokes, Christophe Vieira, Claude E Payri, Eric Coppejans, Sofie D'hondt

2018-10-01

AIM: Biogeographical processes underlying Indo‐Pacific biodiversity patterns have been relatively well studied in marine shallow w..

Bio-ORACLE v2.0: Extending marine data layers for bioclimatic modelling

Jorge Assis, Lennert Tyberghein, Samuel Bosch, Heroen Verbruggen, Ester A Serrao, Olivier De Clerck

2018-03-01

Motivation: The availability of user-friendly, high-resolution global environmental datasets is crucial for bioclimatic modelling...

Organization of plastid genomes in the freshwater red algal order Batrachospermales (Rhodophyta)

Monica Orlandi Paiano, Andrea Del Cortona, Joana F Costa, Shao-Lun Liu, Heroen Verbruggen, Olivier De Clerck, Orlando Necchi

2018-02-01

Little is known about genome organization in members of the order Batrachospermales, and the infra-ordinal relationship remains un..

Plastid phylogenomics with broad taxon sampling further elucidates the distinct evolutionary origins and timing of secondary green plastids

Christopher Jackson, Andrew H Knoll, Cheong Xin Chan, Heroen Verbruggen

2018-01-24

Secondary plastids derived from green algae occur in chlorarachniophytes, photosynthetic euglenophytes, and the dinoflagellate gen..

Codium pulvinatum (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta), a new species from the Arabian Sea, recently introduced into the Mediterranean Sea

Razy Hoffman, Michael J Wynne, Tom Schils, Juan Lopez-Bautista, Heroen Verbruggen

2018-01-01

Codium pulvinatum sp. nov. (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) is described from the southern shores of Oman and from the Mediterranean sh..

Highly structured prokaryote communities exist within the skeleton of coral colonies

Vanessa R Marcelino, Madeleine JH van Oppen, Heroen Verbruggen

2018-01-01

Physiological performance, disease and bleaching prevalence are often patchy within individual coral colonies. These responses are..

Analysis of chloroplast genomes and a supermatrix inform reclassification of the Rhodomelaceae (Rhodophyta)

Pilar Diaz-Tapia, Christine A Maggs, John A West, Heroen Verbruggen

2017-10-01

With over a thousand species, the Rhodomelaceae is the most species-rich family of red algae. While its genera have been assigned ..

Diversity and stability of coral endolithic microbial communities at a naturally high pCO(2) reef

Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino, Kathleen M Morrow, Madeleine JH van Oppen, David G Bourne, Heroen Verbruggen

2017-10-01

The health and functioning of reef-building corals is dependent on a balanced association with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes..

PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF THE CORAL SYMBIONT OSTREOBIUM (ULVOPHYCEAE) INFERRED FROM CHLOROPLAST GENOME DATA

Heroen Verbruggen, Vanessa R Marcelino, Michael D Guiry, Ma Chiela M Cremen, Christopher J Jackson

2017-08-01

The green algal genus Ostreobium is an important symbiont of corals, playing roles in reef decalcification and providing photosynt..

The importance of offshore origination revealed through ophiuroid phylogenomics

Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras, Heroen Verbruggen, Andrew F Hugall, Timothy D O'Hara

2017-07-12

Our knowledge of macro-evolutionary processes in the deep sea is poor, leading to much speculation about whether the deep sea is a..

Reference datasets of tufAle and UPA markers to identify algae in metabarcoding surveys

Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino, Heroen Verbruggen

2017-04-01

The data presented here are related to the research article "Multi-marker metabarcoding of coral skeletons reveals a rich microbio..

DNA barcodes and morphometric data indicate that Codium fragile (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) may consist of two species

Heroen Verbruggen, Margaret JL Brookes, Joana F Costa

2017-01-01

The siphonous green alga Codium fragile currently has 10 accepted subspecies, among which is the problematic invasive subsp. fragi..

Systematics of the genus Halimeda (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) in Brazil including the description of Halimeda jolyana sp nov

Caroline Feijao Ximenes, Valeria Cassano, Maria de Fatima de Oliveira-Carvalho, Maria Elizabeth Bandeira-Pedrosa, Carlos Frederico D Gurgel, Heroen Verbruggen, Sonia Maria Barreto Pereira

2017-01-01

The genus Halimeda has a wide geographic distribution in tropical to subtropical regions of the world. Molecular studies have unco..

The genera Melanothamnus Bornet & Falkenberg and Vertebrata SF Gray constitute well-defined clades of the red algal tribe Polysiphonieae (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales)

Pilar Diaz-Tapia, Lynne McIvord, D Wilson Freshwater, Heroen Verbruggen, Michael J Wynne, Christine A Maggs

2017-01-01

Polysiphonia is the largest genus of red algae, and several schemes subdividing it into smaller taxa have been proposed since its ..

Three new cryptogenic species in the tribes Polysiphonieae and Streblocladieae (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta)

Pilar Diaz-Tapia, Ignacio Barbara, Javier Cremades, Heroen Verbruggen, Christine A Maggs

2017-01-01

During our sampling surveys of the tribes Polysiphonieae and Streblocladieae in Spain and Australia, three previously unrecorded s..

Tracing the introduction history of the brown seaweed Dictyota cyanoloma (Phaeophyceae, Dictyotales) in Europe

Frederique Steen, Joana Aragay, Ante Zuljevic, Heroen Verbruggen, Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Francis Bunker, Daniel Vitales, Amelia Gomez Garreta, Olivier De Clerck

2017-01-01

Dictyota cyanoloma has recently been described from the Mediterranean Sea and Macaronesia but doubt had arisen as to whether this ..

Fast-spreading green beds of recently introduced Halimeda incrassata invade Mallorca island (NW Mediterranean Sea)

Josep Alos, Fiona Tomas, Jorge Terrados, Heroen Verbruggen, Enric Ballesteros

2016-10-25

Mediterraneanmarine biodiversity isundergoing a tropicalizationprocess. We present the first record and spread dynamics of the tro..

Chloroplast genomes as a tool to resolve red algal phylogenies: a case study in the Nemaliales

Joana F Costa, Showe-Mei Lin, Erasmo C Macaya, Cindy Fernandez-Garcia, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-10-10

BACKGROUND: Obtaining strongly supported phylogenies that permit confident taxonomic and evolutionary interpretations has been a c..

Kraftionema allantoideum, a new genus and family of Ulotrichales (Chlorophyta) adapted for survival in high intertidal pools

Richard Wetherbee, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-10-01

The marine, sand-dwelling green alga Kraftionema allantoideum gen. et sp. nov. is described from clonal cultures established from ..

Evolutionary Dynamics of Chloroplast Genomes in Low Light: A Case Study of the Endolithic Green Alga Ostreobium quekettii

Vanessa R Marcelino, Ma Chiela M Cremen, Chistopher J Jackson, Anthony AW Larkum, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-09-01

Some photosynthetic organisms live in extremely low light environments. Light limitation is associated with selective forces as we..

Multi-marker metabarcoding of coral skeletons reveals a rich microbiome and diverse evolutionary origins of endolithic algae

Vanessa Rossetto Marcelino, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-08-22

Bacteria, fungi and green algae are common inhabitants of coral skeletons. Their diversity is poorly characterized because they ar..

Taxonomic revision of Halimeda (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) in south-western Australia

Ma Chiela M Cremen, John M Huisman, Vanessa R Marcelino, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-06-30

Halimeda J.V.Lamour. is a green algal genus that is an important component of tropical reefs and lagoons. Although it does not gen..

RHODENIGMA CONTORTUM, AN OBSCURE NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF RHODOGORGONALES (RHODOPHYTA) FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA

John A West, Giuseppe C Zuccarello, Susan Loiseaux de Goer, Lambros A Stavrias, Heroen Verbruggen

2016-06-01

An unknown microscopic, branched filamentous red alga was isolated into culture from coral fragments collected in Coral Bay, Weste..

Multigene phylogeny of the red algal subclass Nemaliophycidae

Daryl W Lam, Heroen Verbruggen, Gary W Saunders, Morgan L Vis

2016-01-01

The red algae (Rhodophyta) are a lineage of primary endosymbionts whose ancestors represent some of the first photosynthetic eukar..

The South African estuarine specialist Codium tenue (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta) discovered in a south-western Australian estuary

John M Huisman, Rainbo RM Dixon, Felicity N Hart, Heroen Verbruggen, Robert J Anderson

2015-12-01

Codium tenue, previously known reliably only from estuarine habitats in South Africa, is recorded from a similar habitat in the Wa..

ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELS OF INVASIVE SEAWEEDS

Vanessa R Marcelino, Heroen Verbruggen

2015-08-01

Ecological niche models (ENMs) are commonly used to calculate habitat suitability from species' occurrence and macroecological dat..

THE PLASTID GENOME OF THE RED ALGA LAURENCIA

Heroen Verbruggen, Joana F Costa

2015-06-01

We present the 174,935 nt long plastid genome of the red alga Laurencia sp. JFC0032. It is the third plastid genome characterized ..

Molecular survey of Codium species diversity in southern Madagascar

Heroen Verbruggen, Joana F Costa

2015-05-01

We present a molecular survey of the species in the green algal genus Codium that were collected as part of the Atimo Vatae expedi..

New phylogenetic hypotheses for the core Chlorophyta based on chloroplast sequence data

Karolina Fuçi­ková, Frederik Leliaert, Endymion D Cooper, Pavel Skaloud, Sofie D'Hondt, Olivier De Clerck, Carlos FD Gurgel, Louise A Lewis, Paul O Lewis, Juan M Lopez-Bautista, Charles F Delwiche, Heroen Verbruggen

2014-10-17

Phylogenetic relationships in the green algal phylum Chlorophyta have long been subject to debate, especially at higher taxonomic ..

The forgotten genus Pseudoderbesia (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta)

Frederik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen, Sofie D'Hondt, Juan M Lopez-Bautista, Olivier De Clerck

2014-08-01

The poorly known siphonous green algal genus Pseudoderbesia was originally described from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and the..

DNA- based species delimitation in algae

Frederik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen, Pieter Vanormelingen, Frederique Steen, Juan M Lopez-Bautista, Giuseppe C Zuccarello, Olivier De Clerck

2014-04-03

Given the problems of species delimitation in algae using morphology or sexual compatibility, molecular data are becoming the stan..

MORPHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY, PLASTICITY, AND SPECIES DIAGNOSABILITY IN THE APPLICATION OF OLD SPECIES NAMES IN DNA-BASED TAXONOMIES

Heroen Verbruggen

2014-02-01

Improving Transferability of Introduced Species' Distribution Models: New Tools to Forecast the Spread of a Highly Invasive Seaweed

Heroen Verbruggen, Lennert Tyberghein, Gareth S Belton, Frederic Mineur, Alexander Jueterbock, Galice Hoarau, C Frederico D Gurgel, Olivier De Clerck

2013-06-28

The utility of species distribution models for applications in invasion and global change biology is critically dependent on their..

Host specificity and coevolution of Flavobacteriaceae endosymbionts within the siphonous green seaweed Bryopsis

Joke Hollants, Frederik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen, Olivier De Clerck, Anne Willems

2013-06-01

The siphonous green seaweed Bryopsis harbors complex intracellular bacterial communities. Previous studies demonstrated that certa..

Climate change impact on seaweed meadow distribution in the North Atlantic rocky intertidal

Alexander Jueterbock, Lennert Tyberghein, Heroen Verbruggen, James A Coyer, Jeanine L Olsen, Galice Hoarau

2013-05-01

The North-Atlantic has warmed faster than all other ocean basins and climate change scenarios predict sea surface temperature isot..

Algal Taxonomy: A Road to Nowhere?

Olivier De Clerck, Michael D Guiry, Frederik Leliaert, Yves Samyn, Heroen Verbruggen

2013-04-01

The widespread view of taxonomy as an essentially retrogressive and outmoded science unable to cope with the current biodiversity ..

Extensive cryptic species diversity and fine-scale endemism in the marine red alga Portieria in the Philippines

Dioli Ann Payo, Frederik Leliaert, Heroen Verbruggen, Sofie D'hondt, Hilconida P Calumpong, Olivier De Clerck

2013-02-22

We investigated species diversity and distribution patterns of the marine red alga Portieria in the Philippine archipelago. Specie..

Molecular diversity of the Caulerpa racemosa-Caulerpa peltata complex (Caulerpaceae, Bryopsidales) in New Caledonia, with new Australasian records for C. racemosa var. cylindracea

Thomas Sauvage, Claude Payri, Stefano GA Draisma, Willem F Prud'homme van Reine, Heroen Verbruggen, Gareth S Belton, C Frederico D Gurgel, Daniela Gabriel, Alison R Sherwood, Suzanne Fredericq

2013-01-01

Molecular characterization (plastid-encoded tufA gene) of New Caledonian members of the Caulerpa racemosa-Caulerpa peltata complex..

Algivore or Phototroph? Plakobranchus ocellatus (Gastropoda) Continuously Acquires Kleptoplasts and Nutrition from Multiple Algal Species in Nature

Taro Maeda, Euichi Hirose, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Masaru Kawato, Kiyotaka Takishita, Takao Yoshida, Heroen Verbruggen, Jiro Tanaka, Shigeru Shimamura, Yoshihiro Takaki, Masashi Tsuchiya, Kenji Iwai, Tadashi Maruyama

2012-07-25

The sea slug Plakobranchus ocellatus (Sacoglossa, Gastropoda) retains photosynthetically active chloroplasts from ingested algae (..

Phylogenetic analysis of Codium species from Brazil, with the description of the new species C. pernambucensis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta)

Maria De Fatima De Oliveira-Carvalho, Mariana C Oliveira, Sonia Maria Barreto Pereira, Heroen Verbruggen

2012-01-01

The genus Codium comprises c. 125 species widely distributed in marine coastal environments throughout the world. Due to morpholog..