Sabina Wodniok, Henner Brinkmann, Gernot Glöckner, Andrew J Heidel, Hervé Philippe, Michael Melkonian, B. Becker,
... The Charales, the Coleochaetales or more recently the Zygnematales have been considered to be the sister group ... embryophytes. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that either the Zygnematales or a clade consisting of the Zygnematales and the Coleochaetales are the sister group to ... the closest living relatives of embryophytes. Instead, the Zygnematales or a clade consisting of Zygnematales and Coleochaetales are most likely the sister group ... data are needed to confirm this conclusion. A Zygnematales/embryophyte sister group relationship has important implications for ...
Tópico(s): Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | BMC Evolutionary Biology
Monique Turmel, Megumi Ehara, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux,
... to five orders (Charales, Coleochaetales, Desmidiales, Klebsormidiales, and Zygnematales), of chlorophytes from the four remaining classes of ... conserved, except in members of the Desmidiales and Zygnematales. Homologous group II introns were identified in the ... charophytes from all orders except the Desmidiales and Zygnematales. Phylogenetic analyses of concatenated rDNA sequences consistently placed ... of the Coleochaetales. The Charales, Coleochaetales, Desmidiales, and Zygnematales were found to be monophyletic, and a sister ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2002 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology
Anja Besendahl, Debashish Bhattacharya,
... intron in Sirogonium sticticum (J.E. Smith) Kütz. (Zygnematales). Reverse transcriptase (RT)/PCR analyses demonstrated that the ... of the 1506 intron of Gonatozygon aculeatum Hastings (Zygnematales) restored self‐splicing activity. This mutant intron utilized ... of splicing (exon ligation) in vivo in the Zygnematales. Phylogenetic analyses showed congruence of rDNA and intron ... 1506 intron in the common ancestor of the Zygnematales. The rDNA trees were compared to those inferred ... provided strong phylogenetic support for groups within the Zygnematales when analyzed alone or in combination with the ...
Tópico(s): Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
1999 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology
Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux,
... resolved identical relationships among these groups, placing the Zygnematales or the Zygnematales + Coleochaetales as sister to land plants. The present ... the Klebsormidiales (Entransia fimbriata and Klebsormidium spec.) and Zygnematales (Closterium baillyanum and Roya obtusa) and compare them ... size, gene order, and intron content within the Zygnematales. Although the representatives of the Klebsormidiales display more ... proteins failed to resolve the relationships among the Zygnematales, Coleochaetales, and Charales; however, they are consistent with ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2013 - Oxford University Press | Genome Biology and Evolution
Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux,
... groups of charophycean green algae (Mesostigmatales, Chlorokybales, Klebsormidiales, Zygnematales, Coleochaetales, and Charales). Phylogenetic analyses of four genes ... of Mesostigma (Mesostigmatales), Chlorokybus (Chlorokybales), Staurastrum and Zygnema (Zygnematales), Chaetosphaeridium (Coleochaetales), and selected land plants. The phylogenies ... that the Charales diverged before the Coleochaetales and Zygnematales. The Zygnematales were identified as sister to land plants in ... whereas Chaetosphaeridium (T2) or a clade uniting the Zygnematales and Chaetosphaeridium (T3) occupied this position in alternative ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2006 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution

Paula Cabral Eterovick, Alessandra Giani,
Taxonomic survey of Chlorophyta (Volvocales, Chlorococcales, Zygnematales) from Pampulha Reservoir, MG).A taxonomic survey of planktonic Chlorophyta (Volvocales, Chlorococcales, Zygnematales) was performed in the Pampulha Reservoir (Minas Gerais, Brazil). ... identified belong to the orders Chlorococcales, Volvocales and Zygnematales.Chlorococcales was represented by the largest number of species (27 species in nine families), followed by Zygnematales (eight species in one family) and by Volvocales, ...
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
1997 - Springer Science+Business Media | Revista Brasileira de Botânica
Debashish Bhattacharya, Barbara Surek, M Rüsing, Simon H. Damberger, Michael Melkonian,
... including nine sequences from the green-algal order Zygnematales (Charophyceae). Phylogenetic analyses of group I introns and ... components of the host-cell nuclear genomes. The Zygnematales introns, which share a common insertion site (position ... been inherited through common ancestry. Since the first Zygnematales appear in the middle Devonian within the fossil ... presumably has been a stable component of the Zygnematales small-subunit rRNA coding region for 350-400 ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
1994 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Carolien Ruyter‐Spira, Harro J. Bouwmeester,
... are lost in the Chlorobykales. The Klebsormidiales and Zygnematales are unbranched filamentous multicellular organisms, while a branched ... Fig. 1). However, in species belonging to the Zygnematales and Coleochaetales, two additional orders of the Charophytes, ... presence of strigolactones in species belonging to Chlorophyceae, Zygnematales and Coleochaetales, whereas in the Charales species, C. ... and was later lost in the Coleochaetales and Zygnematales. Or, that the Charales form a sister clade ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2012 - Wiley | New Phytologist
Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux,
... order for these algal lineages: Mesostigmatales, Chlorokybales, Klebsormidiales, Zygnematales, Coleochaetales and Charales, with the last lineage being ... and intron content during the evolution of the Zygnematales. Most of the features considered earlier as typical ... cpDNAs probably originated before the emergence of the Zygnematales and Coleochaetales.
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2005 - BioMed Central | BMC Biology
... that land plants have to cope with. The Zygnematales belong to the Zygnematophyceae and are filamentous algae ... name-inspiring of at least two bands. The Zygnematales went through evolutionary reduction of morphological features; for ... 35) Google Scholar). That the other two published Zygnematales genomes lack the genes encoding Aux/IAA underlines ...
Tópico(s): Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
2020 - Cell Press | Cell
B. Zhong, Zhenxiang Xi, Vadim Goremykin, Richard Fong, Patricia A. McLenachan, Phil M. Novis, Charles C. Davis, David Penny,
... orbicularis (Coleochaetales), Nitella hookeri (Charales), and Spirogyra communis (Zygnematales). We further applied a site pattern sorting method ... previous hypotheses based on nuclear data in placing Zygnematales alone, or a clade consisting of Coleochaetales plus Zygnematales, as the closest living relatives of land plants.
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2013 - Oxford University Press | Molecular Biology and Evolution
B. Zhong, Liang Liu, Zhen Yan, David Penny,
•Zygnematales as the closest lineages of land plants is the best hypothesis using phylogenomic data and the ... in this opinion article we postulate that the Zygnematales are the closest lineages of land plants. We ... in this opinion article we postulate that the Zygnematales are the closest lineages of land plants. We ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2013 - Elsevier BV | Trends in Plant Science
... an order.The earliest use of the name Zygnematales appears to be by the American phycologist Charles ... conjugating algae from the 'Conjugatae' to the orders Zygnematales and the Desmidiales.The family Closteriaceae Bessey, currently ... about one third of species referred to the Zygnematales and two-thirds to the Desmidiales.A corresponding ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2013 - Korean Society of Phycology | ALGAE
Richard M. McCourt, Kenneth G. Karol, Susanne Kaplan, Robert W. Hoshaw,
... genera of two families of conjugating green algae (Zygnematales): the Mesotaeniaceae (saccoderm desmids, mostly unicellular) and the ... clades, but they are included in a monophyletic Zygnematales .
Tópico(s): Diatoms and Algae Research
1995 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology
Cédric Finet, Ruth Timme, Charles F. Delwiche, Ferdinand Marlétaz,
... is a monophyletic group comprising both Coleochaetales and Zygnematales, although a single branch swap would yield either ... highly incongruent results, suggesting, for instance, Charales [1], Zygnematales [2,3], or Coleochaete [4] as the sister- ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2012 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Ruth Timme, Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff, Charles F. Delwiche,
... sister lineage, but an alternative hypothesis supports the Zygnematales (often referred to as "pond scum") as the ... supported, 160-nuclear-gene phylogenomic analysis supporting the Zygnematales as the closest living relative to land plants. ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2012 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Simon Laurin-Lemay, Henner Brinkmann, Hervé Philippe,
... highly incongruent results, suggesting, for instance, Charales [1], Zygnematales [2,3], or Coleochaete [4] as the sister- ... are closely related to a group composed of Zygnematales and Coleochaetales.
Tópico(s): Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | Current Biology
Jan Kaštovský, Karolina Fučíková, Tomáš Hauer, Markéta Bohunická,
... two species new to science, 37 Desmidiales, 5 Zygnematales, 6 Chlorophyta, 1 Klebsormidiales, 1 Rhodophyta, 1 Dinophyta, ... consisted of Cyanobacteria; other significantly represented groups were Zygnematales and Desmidiales.Investigated biotope types were demonstrated to ...
Tópico(s): Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
2011 - Česká algologická společnost | Fottea
Ruth Timme, Charles F. Delwiche,
... charophyte species, Coleochaete orbicularis (Coleochaetales) and Spirogyra pratensis (Zygnematales). We used both Sanger sequencing and next generation ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2010 - BioMed Central | BMC Plant Biology
John D. Hall, Kenneth G. Karol, Richard M. McCourt, Charles F. Delwiche,
... paraphyletic, and two genera traditionally classified among the Zygnematales appear to belong to the lineage that gave ... work will be required to delineate lineages of Zygnematales in particular and to identify structural synapomorphies for ...
Tópico(s): Diatoms and Algae Research
2008 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology
Jung‐Ho Lee, James R. Manhart,
... in most surveyed charophytes and embryophytes except Spirogyra (Zygnematales) which lacks it due to intra-genomic rearrangement. ... all of the other four charophyte lineages (Klebsormidiales, Zygnematales, Coleochaetales, and Charales).In addition, Chlorokybus is distinguished ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2002 - Korean Society of Phycology | ALGAE
Richard M. McCourt, Kenneth G. Karol, Jeremy Bell, Kathleen Helm‐Bychowski, Anna Grajewska, Martin F. Wojciechowski, Robert W. Hoshaw,
... The analyses showed that the two families of Zygnematales (Mesotaeniaceae, Zygnemataceae), which have plesiomorphic, unornamented and unsegmented ... analyses of small subunit rDNA sequences for the Zygnematales. The molecular data do not support hypotheses of ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
2000 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology
... desmids of the genera Mesotaenium and Serritaenia (Mesotaeniaceae, Zygnematales, Zygnematophyceae), and thus can be used to interpret ...
Tópico(s): Diatoms and Algae Research
2022 - Elsevier BV | Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Daniel Remias, Lenka Procházková, Linda Nedbalová, Liane G. Benning, Stefanie Lutz,
... Alps. On glaciers, at least three Ancylonema species (Zygnematales, Streptophyta) dominated. Golden-brown blooms consisted of Hydrurus ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2023 - Oxford University Press | FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Gloria Garduño-Solórzano, Martha Martínez-García, Guilherme Scotta Hentschke, Graciliana Lopes, Raquel Castelo‐Branco, Vı́tor Vasconcelos, Jorge E. Campos, Rubén López Cano, Rafael E. Quintanar-Zúñiga,
... T. iztacalense into an independent branch within the Zygnematales. The chromatographic profile of T. iztacalense revealed 20 ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
2020 - Taylor & Francis | European Journal of Phycology
Zhong‐Hua Chen, Pamela S. Soltis,
... ortholog in Zygnema supports the phylogenomic placement of Zygnematales as the closest streptophyte algal relatives of land ...
Tópico(s): Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
2020 - Wiley | Plant Cell & Environment
Ana Marı́a Zavattieri, Pedro Raúl Gutiérrez, Mariana Monti,
... colonial Chlorophyta algae (Botryococcus), a diverse group of Zygnematales zygospores represented by the genera Lecaniella, Maculatasporites, Mehlisphaeridium, ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
Hong Zhou, Klaus von Schwartzenberg,
... Micrasterias and Spirogyra, representing the orders Desmidiales and Zygnematales, and outline the current status of genetic transformation ...
Tópico(s): Protist diversity and phylogeny
2020 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Experimental Botany
Hui Liu, Xiaochao Li, Lei Huang, Gui‐Hua Zeng, Hualin Li, Liu Li, Rentai Xiao, Jilei Zhang, Zhen Sun, Fang Zhou, Qingru Zeng, Liping Yang,
Tópico(s): Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
2019 - Springer Nature | Biologia
Ronald W. Hoham, Daniel Remias,
... most species are in the Chlamydomonadales (Chlorophyta) and Zygnematales (Streptophyta). Other algal groups include euglenoids, cryptomonads, chrysophytes, ...
Tópico(s): Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
2019 - Wiley | Journal of Phycology