Epi-endophytic symbiosis between Laminariocolax aecidioides (Ectocarpales, Phaeophyceae) and Undaria pinnatifida (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae) growing on Argentinian coasts |
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Authors: | M Cecilia Gauna Elisa R Parodi Eduardo J Cáceres |
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Institution: | (1) Laboratorio de Ecología Acuática, Universidad Nacional del Sur-Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (CONICET), 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina;(2) Laboratorio de Ficología y Micología, Universidad Nacional del Sur, CIC. 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina;(3) Laboratorio de Ficología, Instituto de Argentino de Oceanografía (I.A.D.O.), Camino Carrindanga Km 7,5, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
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Abstract: | The present is the first study on epi-endophytic algae on thalli of Undaria pinnatifida growing along Argentinian coasts. The main goal is to describe the nature and the morphology of this symbiosis. Individuals
of Laminariocolax aecidioides were detected in both June and December 2004, growing on U. pinnatifida sporophytes. In nature, the epi-endophyte were macroscopically observed as dark zones that partially covered the hosts’ fronds.
L. aecidioides vegetative thalli were irregularly branched uniseriate filaments. The life cycle is described from laboratory cultures started
from Patagonian populations. Caryology revealed that the sporophytic diploid phase presented 16 chromosomes whereas the gametophytic
haploid phase presented 8 chromosomes. Isolates made from thalli growing in the interior of infected hosts developed into
filamentous, branched sporophytes that reproduced by both unispores and plurispores that were produced in unilocular and plurilocular
sporangia, respectively. The results of this paper also allowed us to conclude that L. aecidioides uses the thalli of U. pinnatifida as a proper substrate. The penetration of endophitic filaments among the host′s cortical cells produced a lateral compression
and, finally, their thalli development generated perforations in the host tissues. The effects of the epi-endophytic infection
of L. aecidioides on U. pinnatifida are neither severe nor deleterious. |
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Keywords: | " target="_blank"> Argentina Epi-endophyte algae Laminariocolax aecidioides Phaeophyceae Undaria pinnatifida |
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