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Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Within the Genus Alexandrium(Dinophyceae) Based on the Nuclear-Encoded SSU and LSU rDNA D1-D2 Sequences  

Kim, Choong-Jae (Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology)
Sako Yoshihiko (Department of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
Uchida Aritsune (Department of Applied Bioscience, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
Kim, Chang-Hoon (Department of Aquaculture, Pukyong National University)
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Journal of the korean society of oceanography / v.39, no.3, 2004 , pp. 172-185 More about this Journal
Abstract
LSU rDNA D1-D2 and SSU rDNA genes of 23 strains in seven Alexandrium (Halim) species, A. tamarense (Lebour) Balech, A. catenella (Whedon et Kofoid), A. fraterculus (Balech) Balech, A. affine (Inoue et Fukuyo) Balech, A. insuetum Balech, A. pseudogonyaulax (Biecheler) Horiguchi ex Yuki et Fukuyo and A. tamiyavanichii Balech, were sequenced and the data were used for molecular phylogenetic analysis. The sequence data revealed 11 and 7 ribotypes in the LSU rDNA D1-D2 region and 4 and 17 ribotypes in the SSU rDNA region of A. catenella and A. tamarense, respectively. Other Alexandrium species had also 1 to 5 ribotypes in the two regions. With the exception of CMC2 and CMC3 of A. catenella, all A. tamarense and A. catenella strains had a common ribotype, a functionally expressed rRNA gene (here termed type A), in both gene regions. In addition to the functionally expressed gene, several pseudogenes were obtained that were found to be good tools to analyze the population designation of regional isolates by grouping them according to shared ribotypes. From the phylogenetic analysis of the sequence data determined in this study and retrieved from GenBank, the genus Alexandrium was divided into 14 groups: 1) A. tamarense, 2) A. excavatum, 3) A. catenella, 4) Tasmanian A. tamarense, 5) A. affine (and/or A. concavum), 6) Thai A. tamarense, 7) A. tamiyavanichii, 8) A. fraterculus, 9) A. margalefii, 10) A. andersonii, 11) A. ostenfeldii, 12) A. minutum (or A. lusitanicum), 13) A. insuetum, and 14) A. pseudogonyaulax. The SSU rDNA gene sequence of A. fundyense was so similar to those of A. tamarense used in this study that the two species were difficult to discriminate each other. A. tamiyavanichii was closest to the A. tamarense strain isolated in Thailand and close to the long chain-forming species of A. affine and A. fraterculus. The phylogenetic tree showed that A. margalefii, A. andersonii, A. ostenfeldii, A. minutum and A. insuetum constituted the basal relative complex, and that A. pseudogonyaulax is an ancestral taxon in the genus Alexandrium.
Keywords
Alexandrium; LSU rDNA (Large Subunit Ribosomal DNA); SSU rDNA (Small Subunit Ribosomal DNA); Phylogenetic tree; NJ; ML; MP Methods;
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