Journal article
Analysis of a plastid multigene data set and the phylogenetic position of the marine macroalga caulerpa filiformis (chlorophyta)
GC Zuccarello, N Price, H Verbruggen, F Leliaert
Journal of Phycology | Published : 2009
Abstract
Molecular phylogenetic relationships within the Chlorophyta have relied heavily on rRNA data. These data have revolutionized our insight in green algal evolution, yet some class relationships have never been well resolved. A commonly used class within the Chlorophyta is the Ulvophyceae, although there is not much support for its monophyly. The relationships among the Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, and Chlorophyceae are also contentious. In recent years, chloroplast genome data have shown their utility in resolving relationships between the main green algal clades, but such studies have never included marine macroalgae. We provide partial chloroplast genome data (∼30,000 bp, 23 genes) of the ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the many people that have helped with this project through the years: Patrizia Fama, Torsten Meissner, Dierdre Sharkey, and Jeff Wright. We thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. Phylogenetic analyses were run on the KERMIT computing cluster (Ghent University) and the Computational Biology Service Unit (Cornell University and Microsoft Corporation, http://cbsuapps.tc.cornell.edu/mrbayes.aspx). H. V. and F. L. are indebted to the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) for postdoctoral fellowship grants. G. C. Z. received funding from BOF (Ghent University) for a sabbatical at the Phycology Research Group in Ghent.