Journal article
Multigene analyses resolve early diverging lineages in the Rhodymeniophycidae (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta)
GW Saunders, G Filloramo, K Dixon, L Le Gall, CA Maggs, GT Kraft
Journal of Phycology | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2016
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12426
Abstract
Multigene phylogenetic analyses were directed at resolving the earliest divergences in the red algal subclass Rhodymeniophycidae. The inclusion of key taxa (new to science and/or previously lacking molecular data), additional sequence data (SSU, LSU, EF2, rbcL, COI-5P), and phylogenetic analyses removing the most variable sites (site stripping) have provided resolution for the first time at these deep nodes. The earliest diverging lineage within the subclass was the enigmatic Catenellopsis oligarthra from New Zealand (Catenellopsidaceae), which is here placed in the Catenellopsidales ord. nov. In our analyses, Atractophora hypnoides was not allied with the other included Bonnemaisoniales, bu..
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Funding Acknowledgements
All of the collectors (listed with the accessions for the COI-5P data in GenBank) are thanked for their contributions to this study, as is T. Moore for generating most of the sequence data. This research was supported through funding to GWS from the Canadian Barcode of Life Network from Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and other sponsors listed at www.BOLNET.ca. Additional support to GWS was provided by the Canada Research Chair Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, as well as NSF through the Red-ToL project (DEB 0937975).