Journal article
Multigene phylogeny of the red algal subclass Nemaliophycidae
DW Lam, H Verbruggen, GW Saunders, ML Vis
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | Published : 2016
Abstract
The red algae (Rhodophyta) are a lineage of primary endosymbionts whose ancestors represent some of the first photosynthetic eukaryotes on the planet. They primarily inhabit marine ecosystems, with only ~5% of species found in freshwater systems. The subclass Nemaliophycidae is very diverse in ecological and life history features and therefore a useful model to study these traits, but the phylogenetic relationships among the orders are, for the most part, poorly resolved. To elucidate the phylogeny of the Nemaliophycidae, we constructed a nine-gene dataset comprised of nuclear, plastid, and mitochondrial markers for 67 red algal specimens. The resulting maximum likelihood (ML) phylogeny conf..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We wish to acknowledge all collectors of specimens listed in Table Si. Emily Johnston and Eric Salomaki are thanked for aid in sequencing some of the freshwater red taxa. Tanya Moore and other Saunders' Lab partners are especially thanked for generating the molecular data for the marine species in this study. For the Phycas analysis, help in optimizing from Paul Lewis is gratefully acknowledged. HV is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (FF110100585). Funding for this study was provided by NSF DEB 0936855, 0936884 (RedToL). In addition to RedToL funding, Saunders was supported by Discovery and Accelerator Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chair Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.