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Citation for Study 18080

About Citation title: "An ultrastructural study of Paraphysoderma sedebokerense (Blastocladiomycota), an epibiotic parasite of microalgae ".
About Study name: "An ultrastructural study of Paraphysoderma sedebokerense (Blastocladiomycota), an epibiotic parasite of microalgae ".
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Citation

Letcher P.M., Lee P.A., Lopez S., Burnett M., Mcbride R.C., & Powell M.J. 2015. An ultrastructural study of Paraphysoderma sedebokerense (Blastocladiomycota), an epibiotic parasite of microalgae. Fungal Biology, .

Authors

  • Letcher P.M. (submitter) Phone 205-348-8208
  • Lee P.A.
  • Lopez S.
  • Burnett M.
  • Mcbride R.C.
  • Powell M.J.

Abstract

Successful algal cultivation for biofuel production is one path in the transition to a renewable energy economy. The green alga Scenedesmus dimorphus is a candidate for biofuel production, but is subject to parasitism and subsequent population crash when cultivated in open ponds. From an open pond cultivating S. dimorphus for biofuel production in New Mexico, USA, an amoeboid parasite was isolated, designated as isolate FD61, and its rDNA operon sequenced. A BLAST search for nuc 18S rDNA (18S) sequence similarity identified the parasite as Paraphysoderma sedebokerense (Blastocladiomycota), which was initially observed as a parasite of Haematococcus from Israel. Here, we examine the ultrastructure of P. sedebokerense and compare it with that of a sister taxon, Physoderma maydis. The parasite has inoperculate thin-walled vegetative sporangia and thick-walled resting sporangia. Our observations indicate that amoeboid swarmers are produced in the vegetative phase, while either amoeboid swarmers or zoospores are the product of meiosis in resting sporangia, as indicated by the presence of synaptonemal complexes in resting sporangia nuclei. Notably, P. sedebokerense has a Golgi apparatus with stacked cisternae, a feature reported for P. maydis, but which is absent in all other examined taxa in Blastocladiomycota. This report furthers our knowledge of the life cycle of P. sedebokerense and extends the host and geographic range of the parasite.

Keywords

amoeboid swarmer, biofuel, blastoclads, Golgi apparatus, life cycle, synaptonemal complex, zoospore

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