Cyanomargarita gen. nov. (Nostocales,Cyanobacteria): convergent evolution resulting in a cryptic genus |
| |
| Authors: | Sergei Shalygin Regina Shalygina Jeffrey R. Johansen Nicole Pietrasiak Esther Berrendero Gómez Markéta Bohunická Jan Mareš Christopher A. Sheil |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biology, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, USA;2. Polar‐Alpine Botanical Garden‐Institute, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Science, Kirovsk‐6, Russia;3. Institute of Industrial Ecology Problems of the North, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Science, Apatity, Russia;4. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, ?eské Budějovice, Czech Republic;5. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA;6. Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, T?eboň, Czech Republic;7. Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology, Ho?ice, Czech Republic;8. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Hydrobiology, ?eské Budějovice, Czech Republic |
| |
| Abstract: | Two populations of Rivularia‐like cyanobacteria were isolated from ecologically distinct and biogeographically distant sites. One population was from an unpolluted stream in the Kola Peninsula of Russia, whereas the other was from a wet wall in the Grand Staircase‐Escalante National Monument, a desert park‐land in Utah. Though both were virtually indistinguishable from Rivularia in field and cultured material, they were both phylogenetically distant from Rivularia and the Rivulariaceae based on both 16S rRNA and rbcLX phylogenies. We here name the new cryptic genus Cyanomargarita gen. nov., with type species C. melechinii sp. nov., and additional species C. calcarea sp. nov. We also name a new family for these taxa, the Cyanomargaritaceae. |
| |
| Keywords: | 16S rRNA gene phylogeny 16S‐23S ITS cryptic genus Cyanobacteria
Cyanomargarita
rbcLX phylogeny
Rivularia
|
|
|
