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

MO Paiano; A Del Cortona; JF Costa; SL Liu; H Verbruggen; O De Clerck; O Necchi

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

MO Paiano, A Del Cortona, JF Costa, SL Liu, H Verbruggen, O De Clerck, O Necchi

Journal of Phycology | WILEY | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12602

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Abstract

Little is known about genome organization in members of the order Batrachospermales, and the infra-ordinal relationship remains unresolved. Plastid (cp) genomes of seven members of the freshwater red algal order Batrachospermales were sequenced, with the following aims: (i) to describe the characteristics of cp genomes and compare these with other red algal groups; (ii) to infer the phylogenetic relationships among these members to better understand the infra-ordinal classification. Cp genomes of Batrachospermales are large, with several cases of gene loss, they are gene-dense (high gene content for the genome size and short intergenic regions) and have highly conserved gene order. Phylogene..

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Funding Acknowledgements

MOP and ONJ are grateful to Foundation for Research Support of Sao Paulo State-FAPESP (Brazil) for scholarships (13/06436-5, 15/01360-6) and grants (12/12016-6, 16/07808-1). ADC had a PhD scholarship BOF13/24J/048. SLL thanks the funding supports from the Minister of Science and Technology (Taiwan). HV was supported by the Australian Biological Resources Study (RFL213-08), the Australian Research Council (FT110100585, DP150100705), the University of Melbourne (MIRS/MIFRS to JFC), and by use of computational facilities of Melbourne Bioinformatics (project UOM0007) and the Nectar Research Cloud, a collaborative Australian research platform supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). There is no conflict of interest among the authors of this article.