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Marginal distribution and high heterozygosity of asexual Caloglossa vieillardii (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) along the Australian coasts

Journal

JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 6, Pages 1283-1293

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12580

Keywords

actin gene; asexualization; crossing experiments; geographical parthenogenesis; heterozygous genotype; physiological differentiation

Funding

  1. JSPS KAKENHI grant [15K07194]
  2. Australian Research Council
  3. Australian Biological Resources Study
  4. Hermon Slade Foundation
  5. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K07194] Funding Source: KAKEN

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In animals and land plants, many asexual species originate through inter- or intraspecific crosses, and such heterozygous asexuals frequently are more abundant than their sexual relatives in marginal habitats. Although asexual species have been reported in various macroalgal taxa, detailed information regarding their distribution, heterozygosity, and origin is limited. Because many asexual tetrasporophyte strains of Caloglossa vieillardii have been isolated from South Australia, far from their core tropical habitats, we re-examined the distribution range of asexual C.vieillardii and genotyped these and other western Pacific strains using an actin gene marker. We confirmed the marginal distribution of the asexuals; however, a small patch of sexual thalli was newly discovered 450km further west from asexual populations in South Australia. Three heterozygous genotypes and one homozygous genotypes were detected from nine asexual populations; 21 heterozygous strains were obligately asexual, but one homozygous strain suddenly produced sexual gametophytes after several years of culture. We hypothesized that the most abundant heterozygous genotype (defined as type 3/4) in asexual populations occurred by a cross between type 3 and type 4 allele gametophytes, both of which were isolated from the Australian coasts. In the crossing experiments, certain combinations between type 3 females and type 4 males produced tetrasporophytes, which recycled successive tetrasporophytes. In the culture experiments, whereas both sexual and asexual strains successfully produced tetraspores at 12 degrees C, no sexual strains released carpospores below 14 degrees C. However, it is uncertain whether this slight difference of maturation temperature was related to the marginal distribution of asexual C.vieillardii.

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