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Citation title: "Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.".

Study name: "Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.".

This study is part of submission 19074 (Status: Published).

Citation

Leliaert F., Tronholm A., Lemieux C., Turmel M., Depriest M."., Fredericq S., Zechman F., & Lopez-bautista J.M. 2016. Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov. Scientific Reports, 6: 25367.

Authors

• Leliaert F. (submitter)
• Tronholm A.
• Lemieux C. (418) 656-2131 ext. 5171
• Turmel M.
• Depriest M.". 2053174112
• Fredericq S.
• Zechman F.
• Lopez-bautista J.M.

Abstract

The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an ancient group of eukaryotes comprising two main clades: the Chlorophyta, which include a wide diversity of green algae, and the Streptophyta, which consist of freshwater green algae and the land plants. The early-diverging lineages of the Viridiplantae comprise unicellular algae, and multicellularity has evolved independently in the two clades. Recent molecular data have revealed an unrecognized early-diverging lineage of green plants, the Palmophyllales, with a unique form of multicellularity, and typically found in deep water. The phylogenetic position of this enigmatic group, however, remained uncertain. Here we elucidate the evolutionary affinity of the Palmophyllales using chloroplast genomic data. Phylogenetic analyses firmly place the palmophyllalean Verdigellas peltata along with species of Prasinococcales (prasinophyte clade VI) in the deepest-branching clade of the Chlorophyta. The small, compact and intronless chloroplast genome (cpDNA) of V. peltata shows striking similarities in gene content and organization with the cpDNAs of Prasinococcales and the streptophyte Mesostigma viride, indicating that cpDNA architecture has been extremely well conserved in these deep-branching lineages of green plants. The phylogenetic distinctness of the Palmophyllales-Prasinococcales clade, characterized by unique ultrastructural features, warrants recognition of a new class of green plants, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.

Keywords

green algae, phylogenomics, viridiplantae

External links

• DOI: 10.1038/srep25367
• PMID: 27157793

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S19074
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref25709,
  	 author = {Frederik  Leliaert and Ana  Tronholm and Claude  Lemieux and Monique  Turmel and Michael "Scotty" DePriest and Suzanne  Fredericq and Frederick W.  Zechman and Juan M Lopez-Bautista},
  	 title = {Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses reveal the deepest-branching lineage of the Chlorophyta, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.},
  	 year = {2016},
  	 keywords = {green algae, phylogenomics, viridiplantae},
  	 doi = {10.1038/srep25367},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = {27157793},
  	 journal = {Scientific Reports},
  	 volume = {6},
  	 number = {},
  	 pages = {25367},
  	 abstract = {The green plants (Viridiplantae) are an ancient group of eukaryotes comprising two main clades: the Chlorophyta, which include a wide diversity of green algae, and the Streptophyta, which consist of freshwater green algae and the land plants. The early-diverging lineages of the Viridiplantae comprise unicellular algae, and multicellularity has evolved independently in the two clades. Recent molecular data have revealed an unrecognized early-diverging lineage of green plants, the Palmophyllales, with a unique form of multicellularity, and typically found in deep water. The phylogenetic position of this enigmatic group, however, remained uncertain. Here we elucidate the evolutionary affinity of the Palmophyllales using chloroplast genomic data. Phylogenetic analyses firmly place the palmophyllalean Verdigellas peltata along with species of Prasinococcales (prasinophyte clade VI) in the deepest-branching clade of the Chlorophyta. The small, compact and intronless chloroplast genome (cpDNA) of V. peltata shows striking similarities in gene content and organization with the cpDNAs of Prasinococcales and the streptophyte Mesostigma viride, indicating that cpDNA architecture has been extremely well conserved in these deep-branching lineages of green plants. The phylogenetic distinctness of the Palmophyllales-Prasinococcales clade, characterized by unique ultrastructural features, warrants recognition of a new class of green plants, Palmophyllophyceae class. nov.}
  }
  		

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  AU  - Tronholm,Ana 
  AU  - Lemieux,Claude 
  AU  - Turmel,Monique 
  AU  - DePriest,Michael "Scotty"
  AU  - Fredericq,Suzanne 
  AU  - Zechman,Frederick W. 
  AU  - Lopez-Bautista,Juan M
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