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INNOVATIVE RESEARCHES ON ALGAL BIOMASS
卷 15, 期 -, 页码 3-11出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2012.05.003
关键词
Biofuel; Bloom; Botryococcus braunii; Environmental sequence; Genetic diversity; Population genetics
资金
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology ( CREST) of Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
- Next Generation Energy Development Project, MEXT, Japan
Botryococcus braunii is a green colonial alga that produces large volumes of liquid hydrocarbon. Therefore, B. braunii is expected to be useful as an alternative fuel resource. Natural blooms of B. braunii have been recorded in several lakes and reservoirs. Elucidation of natural B. braunii blooming would provide important information for the development of an open-pond cultivation system. In this study, we periodically assessed the genetic diversity and colony density of B. braunii populations, along with several environmental parameters, in two Japanese reservoirs (provisionally called N and S) from December 2008 to December 2009. Reservoir N had low numbers of B. braunii colonies whereas Reservoir S was characterized by periodic density increases that occurred in December 2008, and in March, September, and December 2009. Population genetics analysis using specific environmental sequences (PGA-SES method) was conducted for B. braunii populations for the first time. Among the B. braunii-dominated samples of Reservoir S, high levels of genetic diversity were observed in December 2008 and March 2009, whereas the diversity levels in September and December 2009 were low. The results suggest that B. braunii periodicity can be categorized into a high genetic diversity type and a low genetic diversity type. The high genetic diversity type may be caused by simultaneous growth of many genotypes, whereas the low genetic diversity type seems to be explained by increases in the cell density of only a few adapted genotypes. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of International Organizing Committee for AOAIS-1
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