Journal article
Molecular systematics of the siphonous green algal genus codium in Eastern Victoria, Australia
ME Croce, P Diaz-Tapia, H Verbruggen
Cryptogamie Algologie | ADAC-CRYPTOGAMIE | Published : 2018
Abstract
The widely distributed genus Codium is a major component of the marine macroalgal flora and has its largest species diversity in warm-temperate regions. Along the South coast of Australia, Codium is a diverse group, but the species diversity in the easternmost region of Victoria is not well-documented. In this study, we characterized the species diversity of Codium from Croajingolong National Park, Gabo Island Lighthouse Reserve and Cape Howe Marine National Park. The specimens were collected from a wide range of microhabitats during an expedition of the Bush Blitz program, and Codium species were delimited through a combination of molecular analyses of the chloroplast markers tufA and rbcL,..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Part of this study was done under the Endeavour Research Fellowship program, granted to M. Emilia Croce by the Department of Education and Training, Australian Government. We thank Kyatt Dixon, Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras and the Parks Victoria and Bush Blitz teams for assistance in the field, and Joana Costa for generating the molecular data. This research was supported by funding from the Australian Government's Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) through the Bush Blitz Strategic Taxonomy Grants (TTC216-03) and National Taxonomy Research Grants (RFL213-08) programmes. PDT acknowledges support by the postdoctoral programmes Axudas de apoio a etapa de formacion posdoutoral (Xunta de Galicia).