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Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Genus Oedogonium (Oedogoniales, Chlorophyta) from China

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PLANTS-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 18, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants11182422

Keywords

Oedogoniales; morphological characteristics; molecular phylogeny; Oedogonium; paraphyletic group; basal cell shapes

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  1. Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS [QYZDY-SSWSMC029-6]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31750001]

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In this study, a phylogenetic analysis of the genus Oedogonium was conducted using morphological and molecular data. The results suggest that the traditional taxonomy of this genus may not accurately reflect its phylogeny. Additionally, a new taxonomical classification based on the shapes of basal cells was proposed.
Oedogoniales comprises the three genera Oedogonium, Oedocladium, and Bulbochaete, which include more than 600 described species. The classification of Oedogoniaceae is currently based on morphology, and the complicated morphological characteristics make species identification difficult, with the limited molecular data also restricting the phylogenetic analysis. In the present study, we collected 47 Oedogonium specimens from China and sequenced 18S rDNA, ITS2, ITS (ITS1 + 5.8S + ITS2), and rbcL sequences to conduct phylogenetic analyses. We selected nine morphological characteristics, most of which were considered important in traditional systematics, for comparison with the molecular phylogeny results. All the topologies based on different datasets showed similar results; Oedogonium was a paraphyletic group, and Oedocladium and Bulbochaete clustered with Oedogonium. The morphological characteristics matching the phylogenetic results showed that the types of sexual differentiation, characteristics of the oogonium (including shape, types of aperture, and ornamentation of oospore wall), division types of antheridial, and number of sperm of each antheridial, which are considered the most important morphological characteristics in traditional taxonomy of Oedogonium, did not form monophyletic lineages respectively, indicating that traditional systematics may not reflect the real phylogeny of the genus Oedogonium. In addition, a new taxonomical classification of the genus Oedogonium was presented according to the shapes of basal cells, which matched well with the phylogenetic topologies. In addition, we propose to divide the genus Oedogonium into two sections, section Globosum and section Elongatum, representing the species with spherical or sub-hemispherical basal cells and elongated basal cells, respectively.

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