Volume 43, Issue 3

UNIVERSAL PRIMERS AMPLIFY A 23S rDNA PLASTID MARKER IN EUKARYOTIC ALGAE AND CYANOBACTERIA1

Alison R. Sherwood

Department of Botany, 3190 Maile Way, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

Author for correspondence: e‐mail asherwoo@hawaii.edu.

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Gernot G. Presting

Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA

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First published: 16 May 2007
Citations: 160
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Received 9 October 2006. Accepted 18 January 2007.

Abstract

The challenge in the development of universal algal primers lies in the genetic diversity contained within the vast array of evolutionary lineages present in this informally named group of organisms. A comparative genomics approach was used previously to identify conserved primers flanking a region of the plastid genome. Our present research illustrates the feasibility of amplifying and sequencing this marker across multiple algal lineages. We present a preliminary framework of 107 novel sequences of this region from 62 red algae, 19 green algae, 14 brown algae, 8 cyanobacteria, 2 diatoms, 1 xanthophyte, and 1 euglenoid, and illustrate levels of divergence of the marker for well‐represented groups in a neighbor‐joining analysis. This ∼410 nt region distinguishes most species included in the analysis. The remarkable universality of these primers suggests potential for their use in assays of environmental samples in which they could be used to simultaneously detect a number of different algal lineages.

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