Chemotaxonomic Study of Bostrychia spp. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) Based on Their Mycosporine-Like Amino Acid Content.

ABSTRACT: This study presents a chemotaxonomic investigation of the genus Bostrychia through the quantitation of the major mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs). The presence of some cryptic species had been suggested in the B. moritziana/B. radicans complex and MAA-profiling in respective samples revealed different chemotypes within this species complex. Another possibly polyphyletic species is Bostrychia simpliciuscula; previous molecular phylogenetic analyses showed four genetic lineages within this species, one of which was recently distinguished as a new species. Phytochemical profiling of those samples used for DNA analyses revealed four different chemotypes, corresponding to the above four lineages and it supports the re-circumscription of the other three B. simpliciuscula lineages. Therefore,

SUBMITTER: Orfanoudaki M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7397226 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature