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Untangling the hidden intrathalline microalgal diversity inParmotrema pseudotinctorum:Trebouxia crespoanasp. nov.
Pavel ŠKaloudOndřej PeksaPatricia MoyaEva BarrenoArántzazu MolinsArnoldo Santos-guerrasubject
0106 biological sciences0301 basic medicineTrebouxiaLineage (evolution)Biologybiology.organism_classification010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesPyrenoidThallusChloroplast03 medical and health sciences030104 developmental biologyBotanyUltrastructureLichenEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsCell wall thickeningdescription
AbstractIntrathalline phycobiont diversity was investigated in a rosette-forming lichen,Parmotrema pseudotinctorum, using a combination of Sanger sequencing, 454-pyrosequencing, conventional light and confocal microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. A total of 39 thalli sampled in five Canary Island populations were investigated. Three novel lineages of lichen phycobionts were detected, all being inferred within theTrebouxiaclade G. The most abundant phycobiont lineage, occurring in all lichen populations investigated, is described here asTrebouxia crespoanasp. nov. This species produces spherical to pyriform cells possessing a crenulate chloroplast with lobes elongated at their ends, and onecorticola-type pyrenoid with very thin, unbranched tubules of curved profile.Trebouxia crespoanais clearly distinguished from all otherTrebouxiaspecies by a characteristic cap-like cell wall thickening produced on one side of vegetative cells, and the larger size of vegetative cells that reach 21(–26) µm in diameter.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-05-01 | The Lichenologist |