Morphology and reproduction of Volvox capensis (Volvocales, Chlorophyceae) from Montana, USA

Phycologia

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 316-320

  Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^a   Ueki, Noriko ^b,c   Misumi, Osami ^d   Yamamoto, Kayoko ^a   Yamashita, Shota ^a   Herron, Matthew D ^e   Rosenzweig, Frank ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Monoecious species; Morphology; Polyspermy; Reproduction; Volvox capensis; Volvox sect. Volvox

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; CHLOROPHYCEAE; VOLVOX; VOLVOX CAPENSIS;

EID: 84938067249     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: 23302968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/15-14.1     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. COLEMAN A.W. 2009. Is there a molecular key to the level of 'biological species' in eukaryotes? A DNA guide. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50: 197-203.
2. FELSENSTEIN J. 1985. Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39: 783-791.
3. HERRON M.D., HACKETT J.D., AYLWARD F.O. & MICHOD R.E. 2009. Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 3254-3258.
4. ISAKA N., KAWAI-TOYOOKA H., MATSUZAKI R., NAKADA T. & NOZAKI H. 2012. Description of two new monoecious species of Volvox sect. Volvox (Volvocaceae, Chlorophyceae), based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny of cultured material. Journal of Phycology 48: 759-767.
5. IYENGAR M.O.P. & DESIKACHARY T.V. 1981. Volvocales. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. 532 pp.
6. IWAO Y. 2012. Egg activation in physiological polyspermy. Reproduction 144: 11-22.
7. KASAI F., KAWACHI M., ERATA M., MORI F., YUMOTO K., SATO M. & ISHIMOTO M. [Eds] 2009. NIES-Collection. List of strains, ed. 8 Japanese Journal of Phycology 57 (1), supplement: 1-350, pls 1-7.
8. KATO S. 1982. Laboratory culture and morphology of Colacium vesiculosum Ehrb. (Euglenophyceae). Japanese Journal of Phycol-ogy 30: 63-67 (in Japanese with English abstract).
9. KUROIWA H., NOZAKI H. & KUROIWA T. 1993. Preferential digestion of chloroplast nuclei in sperms before and during fertilization in Volvox carteri. Cytologia 58: 281-291.
10. LINNAEUS C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, ed. 10. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. 824 pp. (in Latin).
11. MAI J.C. & COLEMAN A.W. 1997. The internal transcribed spacer 2 exhibits a common secondary structure in green algae and flowering plants. Journal of Molecular Evolution 44: 258-271.
12. NOZAKI H. 1983. Sexual reproduction in Eudorina elegans (Chlor-ophyta, Volvocales). The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 96: 103-110.
13. NOZAKI H. 1988. Morphology, sexual reproduction and taxonomy of Volvox carteri f. kawasakiensis f. nov. (Chlorophyta) from Japan. Phycologia 27: 209-220.
14. NOZAKI H. 2003. Flagellated green algae. In: Freshwater algae of North America: ecology and classification (Ed. by J.D. Wehr & R.G. Sheath), pp. 225-252. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
15. NOZAKI H., KUROIWA H., MITA T. & KUROIWA T. 1989. Pleodorina japonica sp. nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) with bacteria-like endosymbionts. Phycologia 28: 252-267.
16. NOZAKI H., MISAWA K., KAJITA T., KATO M., NOHARA S. & WATANABE M.M. 2000. Origin and evolution of the colonial Volvocales (Chlorophyceae) as inferred from multiple, chloro-plast gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17: 256-268.
17. NOZAKI H., YAMADA T.K., TAKAHASHI F., MATSUZAKI R. & NAKADA T. 2014. New 'missing link' genus of the colonial volvocine green algae gives insights into the evolution of oogamy. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 37.
18. PRINGSHEIM E.G. 1946. Pure cultures of algae. Cambridge University Press, London. 119 pp.
19. RICH F. & POCOCK M.A. 1933. Observations on the genus Volvox in Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 16: 427-471, pls 9-24.
20. SMITH G.M. 1944. A comparative study of the species of Volvox. Transactions of the American Microscopic Society 63: 265-310.
21. STARR R.C., O'NEIL R.M. & MILLER C.E. 1980. L-glutamic acid as a mediator of sexual morphogenesis in Volvox capensis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 77: 1025-1028.
22. SWOFFORD D.L. 2002. PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 4.0b10. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
23. TAMURA K., PETERSON D., PETERSON N., STECHER G., NEI M. & KUMAR S. 2011. MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28: 2731-2739.