Journal article
Reassessment of the classification of Bryopsidales (Chlorophyta) based on chloroplast phylogenomic analyses
MCM Cremen, F Leliaert, J West, DW Lam, S Shimada, JM Lopez-Bautista, H Verbruggen
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE | Published : 2019
Abstract
The Bryopsidales is a morphologically diverse group of mainly marine green macroalgae characterized by a siphonous structure. The order is composed of three suborders – Ostreobineae, Bryopsidineae, and Halimedineae. While previous studies improved the higher-level classification of the order, the taxonomic placement of some genera in Bryopsidineae (Pseudobryopsis and Lambia) as well as the relationships between the families of Halimedineae remains uncertain. In this study, we re-assess the phylogeny of the order with datasets derived from chloroplast genomes, drastically increasing the taxon sampling by sequencing 32 new chloroplast genomes. The phylogenies presented here provided good suppo..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Biological Resources Study (RFL213-08), the Australian Research Council (DP150100705), the University of Melbourne (MIRS/MIFRS to MCMC), the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, and the National Science Foundation (GRAToL 10136495) to JLB. We used computational resources from Melbourne Bioinformatics (project UOM0007) and the Nectar Research Cloud, a collaborative Australian research platform supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and the Alabama Supercomputer Authority. We thank Claude Payri for facilitating the fieldwork in PNG; Stephanie Muller (CSHL), Roger Nielsen (GGF), and Ting-ting Wang (Novogene) for the assistance they provided during the sequencing of the samples; Tim Entwisle and Andrew Drinnan for helpful discussions on classification schemes; Mike Guiry for the nomenclatural advice; the people from Verbruggen lab especially Margaret Brookes, Joana Costa, Pilar Diaz, Chirs Jackson, and Vanessa Marcelino, for the fruitful discussions. The authors declare no conflict of interest.