Morphology and Molecular Phylogeny of Genus Oedogonium (Oedogoniales, Chlorophyta) from China.

ABSTRACT: Oedogoniales comprises the three genera Oedogonium, Oedocladium, and Bulbochaete, which include more than 600 described species. The classification of Oedogoniaceae is currently based on morphology, and the complicated morphological characteristics make species identification difficult, with the limited molecular data also restricting the phylogenetic analysis. In the present study, we collected 47 Oedogonium specimens from China and sequenced 18S rDNA, ITS2, ITS (ITS1 + 5.8S + ITS2), and rbcL sequences to conduct phylogenetic analyses. We selected nine morphological characteristics, most of which were considered important in traditional systematics, for comparison with the molecular phylogeny results. All the topologies based on different datasets showed simila

SUBMITTER: Xiong Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9505714 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature