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Morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Johsia chumphonensis gen. et sp. nov. and Parvodinium parvulum comb. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae)
Luo, Z.; Mertens, K.N.; Gu, H.; Wang, N.; Wu, Y.; Uttayarnmanee, P.; Pransilpa, M.; Roeroe, K.A. (2021). Morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Johsia chumphonensis gen. et sp. nov. and Parvodinium parvulum comb. nov. (Peridiniopsidaceae, Dinophyceae). Eur. J. Phycol. 56(3): 324-336. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2020.1829078
In: European Journal of Phycology. Cambridge University Press/Taylor & Francis: Cambridge. ISSN 0967-0262; e-ISSN 1469-4433, more
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Keywords
    Johsia chumphonensis; Parvodinium inconspicuum (Lemmermann) Carty, 2008 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal; Fresh water
Author keywords
    Cyst; dinoflagellate; eyespot; freshwater; immotile cell; Peridinium parvulum

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  • Luo, Z.
  • Mertens, K.N., more
  • Gu, H.
  • Wang, N.
  • Wu, Y.
  • Uttayarnmanee, P.
  • Pransilpa, M.
  • Roeroe, K.A.

Abstract
    The family Peridiniopsidaceae encompasses mainly freshwater species of the genera Peridiniopsis, Palatinus and Parvodinium. Only one benthic, marine species ‘Scrippsiellahexapraecingula has been attributed to this family. Here we established five strains by isolating single Parvodinium-like cells from the marine Gulf of Thailand, Hainan Island waters (China), off Manado (Indonesia) and from a freshwater reservoir in Fuzhou (China). All strains were examined with light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, and their SSU, ITS-5.8S and partial LSU rRNA regions were sequenced. Four marine strains share a plate formula of Po, cp, X, 4′, 2a, 6′′, 6C, 4S, 5′′′, 2′′′′ and are herein attributed to a new genus Johsia as J. chumphonensis gen. et sp. nov. Its theca is characterized by an epitheca 1.5 times as long as the hypotheca in dorsal view and a 2a plate about half the size of 1a. A type B eyespot was observed in J. chumphonensis comprising two rows of lipid globules within a chloroplast with a single row of crystals overlying the eyespot. Production of spherical cysts was observed in culture. The freshwater strain shows a plate pattern of Po, cp, X, 4′, 2a, 7′′, 6C, 5S, 5′′′, 2′′′′, characterized by two unequal antapical plates and a lack of antapical spines, fitting the description of Peridinium parvulum, which was transferred to Parvodinium as P. parvulum comb. nov. In this species, a type A eyespot was observed comprising four rows of lipid globules within a chloroplast. A molecular phylogeny was inferred based on concatenated data from SSU, ITS-5.8S and partial LSU rRNA gene sequences using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference. Our results show that Johsia is nested within the Peridiniopsidaceae and is a sister clade to Peridiniopsis borgei and the strain UTEX1948 identified as ‘Scrippsiellahexapraecingula with three anterior intercalary plates.

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