Rapid Evolution of a Sexual Reproduction Gene in Centric Diatoms of the Genus Thalassiosira

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3501-3513

  Armbrust, E Virginia ^a   Galindo, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA 18S; SEXUALLY INDUCED PROTEIN 1, THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DIATOM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RNA GENE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DIATOMS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; TUBULIN;

EID: 0035434109     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3501-3513.2001     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Armbrust, E. V. 1999. Identification of a new gene family expressed during the onset of sexual reproduction in the centric diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65:3121-3128.
2. Armbrust, E. V. 2000. Structural features of nuclear genes in the centric diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii (Bacillariophyceae). J. Phycol. 36:942-946.
3. Armbrust, E. V., R. J. Olson, and S. W. Chisholm. 1990. Role of light and the cell cycle on the induction of spermatogenesis in a centric diatom. J. Phycol. 26:4711-478.
4. Bhaya, D., and A. R. Grossman. 1993. Characterization of gene clusters encoding the fucoxanthin chlorophyll proteins of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Nucleic Acids Res. 21:4458-4466.
5. Bork, P., A. K. Downing, B. Kieffer, and I. D. Campbell. 1996. Structure and distribution of modules in extracellular proteins. Q. Rev. Biophys. 29:119-167.
6. Brand, L. E. 1981. Genetic variability in reproduction rates in marine phytoplankton populations. Evolution 35:1117-1127.
7. Civetta, A., and R. S. Singh. 1998. Sex-related genes, directional sexual selection, and speciation. Mol. Biol. Evol. 15:901-909.
8. Cleveland, D. W., and K. F. Sullivan. 1985. Molecular biology and genetics of tubulin. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 54:331-365.
9. Crawford, R. M. 1995. The role of sex in the sedimentation of a marine diatom bloom. Limnol. Oceanogr. 40:200-204.
10. Drebes, G. 1977. Sexuality, p. 250-283. In D. Werner (ed.), The biology of diatoms. University of California Press, Berkeley.
11. Edlund, M. B., and E. F. Stoermer. 1997. Ecological, evolutionary, and systematic significance of diatom life histories. J. Phycol. 33:897-918.
12. Ferris, P. J., C. Pavlovic, S. Fabry, and U. W. Goodenough. 1997. Rapid evolution of sex-related genes in Chlamydomonas. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:8634-8639.
13. Grantham, R. 1974. Amino acid difference formula to help explain protein evolution. Science 185:862-864.
14. Guillard, R. R. L. 1975. Culture of phytoplankton for feeding marine invertebrates, p. 29-60. In W. L. Smith and M. H. Chaney (ed.), Culture of marine invertebrate animals. Plenum Press, New York, N. Y.
15. Hartl, D. L., and A. G. Clark. 1997. Principles of population genetics. Sinauer Associates. Inc., Sunderland, Mass.
16. Hasle, G. R. 1978. Some freshwater and brackish water species of the diatom genus Thalassiosira Cleve. Phycologia 17:263-292.
17. Hellberg, M. E., G. W. Moy, and V. D. Vacquier. 2000. Positive selection and propeptide repeats promote rapid interspecific divergence of a gastropod sperm protein. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:458-466.
18. Hughes, A. L. 1992. Positive selection and interallelic recombination at the merozoite surface antigen-1 (MSA-1) locus of Plasmodium falciparum. Mol. Biol. Evol. 9:381-393.
19. Hughes, A. L. 1999. Adaptive evolution of genes and genomes, p. 270. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
20. Hutchinson, G. E. 1961. The paradox of the plankton. Am. Nat. 95:137-145.
21. Kuehn, S. F. 1997. Infection of Coscinodiscus spp. by the parasitoid nanoflagellate Pirsonia diadema. 1. Behavioural studies on the infection process. J. Plankton Res. 19:791-804.
22. Leblanc, C., A. Falciatore, M. Watanabe, and C. Bowler. 1999. Semi-quantitative RT-PCR analysis of photoregulated gene expression in marine diatoms. Plant Mol. Biol. 40:1031-1044.
23. Lessa, E. P., and G. Applebaum. 1993. Screening techniques for detecting allelic variation in DNA sequences. Mol. Ecol. 2:119-129.
24. Lundberg, K. S., D. D. Shoemaker, M. W. W. Adams, J. M. Short, J. A. Sorge, and E. J. Mathur. 1991. High-fidelity amplification using a thermostable DNA polymerase isolated from Pyrococcus furiosus. Gene 108:1-6.
25. Lynch, M., and J. S. Conery. 2000. The evolutionary fate and consequences of duplicate genes. Science 290:1151-1155.
26. MacDonald, J. D. 1869. On the structure of the diatomaceous frustule, and its genetic cycle, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 4:1-8.
27. Mann, D. G. 1999. The species concept in diatoms. Phycol. Rev. 38:437-495.
28. Medlin, L., H. J. Elwood, S. Stickel, and M. L. Sogin. 1988. The characterization of enzymatically amplified eukaryotic 16S-like rRNA-coding regions. Gene 71:491-499.
29. Medlin, L. K., G. L. A. Barker, L. Campbell, J. C. Green, P. K. Hayes, D. Marie, S. Wrieden, and D. Vaulot. 1996. Genetic characterisation of Emiliania huxleyi (Haptophyta). J. Mar. Syst. 9:13-31.
30. Medlin, L. K., W. H. C. F. Kooistra, R. Gersonde, P. A. Sims, and U. Wellbrock. 1997. Is the origin of the diatoms related to the end-Permian mass extinction? Nova Hedwigia 65:1-11.
31. Metz, E. C., and S. R. Palumbi. 1996. Positive selection and sequence rearrangements generate extensive polymorphism in the gamete recognition protein bindin. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13:397-406.
32. Page, R. D. M. 1996. TREEVIEW: an application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers. Comput. Applic. Biosci. 12:357-358.
33. Palumbi, S. R. 1994. Genetic divergence, reproductive isolation, and marine speciation. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 25:547-572.
34. Paul, J. H., S. L. Pichard, J. B. Kang, G. M. F. Watson, and F. R. Tabita. 1999. Evidence for a clade-specific temporal and spatial separation in ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase gene expression in phytoplankton populations off Cape Hatteras and Bermuda. Limnol. Oceanogr. 44:12-23.
35. Proctor, L. M. 1997. Advances in the study of marine viruses. Microsc. Res. Tech. 37:136-161.
36. Rose, T. M., E. R. Schultz, J. G. Henikoff, S. Pietrokovski, C. M. McCallum, and S. Henikoff. 1998. Consensus-degenerate hybrid oligonucleotide primers for amplification of distantly-related sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 26:1628-1635.
37. Round, F. E. 1972. The problem of cell size during diatom cell division. Nova Hedwigia 31:485-493.
38. Round, F. E., R. M. Crawford, and D. G. Mann. 1990. The diatoms, p. 747. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. United Kingdom.
39. Rynearson, T. A., and E. V. Armbrust. 2000. DNA fingerprinting reveals extensive genetic diversity in a field population of the centric diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45:1329-1340.
40. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
41. Smith, G. J., Y. Gao, and R. S. Alberte. 1997. The fucoxanthin-chlorophyll A/C proteins comprise a large family of coexpressed genes in the marine diatom Skeletonema costatum (Greve): characterization of eight unique cDNAs. Plant Physiol. 114:1136.
42. Swanson, W. J., and V. D. Vacquier. 1998. Concerted evolution in an egg receptor for a rapidly evolving abalone sperm protein. Science 281:710-712.
43. Vacquier, V. D. 1998. Evolution of gamete recognition proteins. Science 281:1995-1998.
44. Vacquier, V. D., and Y.-H. Lee. 1993. Abalone sperm lysin: unusual mode of evolution of a gamete recognition protein. Zygote 1:181-196.
45. Vacquier, V. D., W. J. Swanson, and Y.-H. Lee. 1997. Positive Darwinian selection of two homologous fertilization proteins: what is the selective pressure driving their divergence? J. Mol. Evol. 44(Suppl. 1):S15-S22.
46. Waite, A., and P. J. Harrison. 1992. Role of sinking and ascent during sexual reproduction in the marine diatom Ditylum brightwellii. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 87:113-122.
47. Wyman, M., J. P. Zehr, and D. G. Capone, 1996. Temporal variability in nitrogenase gene expression in natural populations of the marine eyanobacterium Trichodesmium thiebantii. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 62:1073-1075.