Molecular and morphological characterisation of Ulva chaugulii, U. paschima and U. ohnoi (Ulvophyceae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran
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Kiana Pirian
Kiana Pirian is a PhD student of Biotechnology at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She graduated with a MSc in Biotechnology in 2009 and a BSc in Phytopathology in 2008 from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. Her PhD thesis is focusing on the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Iranian
Ulva species, and the evaluation of chemical and phytochemical components of macroalgae (Ulvacea ) from the Persian Gulf for nutritional and medicinal applications. She is also collaborating as a main partner in projects in Biotechnology (antitumoral activity of brown macroalgae and antidiabetic activity of macroalgae).Khosro Piri currently a member of the Scientific Board of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. He has a PhD in Plant Biotechnology and an MSc degree in Plant Engineering (tissue cultures) from Montpellier University, France. His BSc degree is in Agriculture from the Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. In addition to teaching in Biotechnology, Dr. Piri has collaborated on 30 research projects and supervised MSc and PhD theses. Currently he has over 40 published articles in national and international journals, 50 conference papers, three book compilations and six national patents. He is a member of the editorial board of three Iranian journals in the fields of plant production.
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Jelveh Sohrabipour
Jelveh Sohrabipour is an Associate Professor in Seaweed Biotechnology at Agriculture and Natural Resources Researches and Education Center of Hormozgan Province, Department of Natural Resources, Bandar Abbas, Iran. She has a PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Malaya, Malesia. Dr. Sohrabipour is an expert in molecular taxonomy of seaweeds and seaweed aquaculture and has 20 years’ experience in marine algal taxonomy in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. She is also interested in the biochemical composition and biomedical effects of seaweeds.
Saied Tamadoni Jahromi (D.V.M from Azad University) has a PhD in Biotechnology from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He is the head of Biotechnology Department and a member of the Scientific Board of Persian Gulf and Oman Sea Ecological Research Institute, Bandar Abbass, Iran. He was the leader of projects in biotechnology (antitumoral activity of brown macroalgae) and population genetics of viral diseases (characterization of novel microsatellite loci), and collaborated in projects of molecular investigations on marine resources. He was chosen as the top researcher in Hormozgan Province, Iran, in 2007 and 2015.
Jaanika Blomster is a university lecturer in Algal Systematics at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She received her PhD in Biology from Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland for her work on the systematics of
Ulva . More recently her work has concentrated on metagenomics and algal systematics on Baltic Sea and Antarctic sea ice. © Photo: Linda Tammisto.
Abstract
Species of Ulva are distributed worldwide in various aquatic habitats and their morphological characters change considerably in response to environmental conditions, which makes identification in this genus problematic. All Ulva species so far described from the Persian Gulf, Iran, have been identified by classical taxonomic methods. In this study, Ulva spp. collected from the Persian Gulf were identified by combined morphological and molecular methods. We sequenced the internal transcribed spacer ITS2 and the rbcL gene in 15 specimens, representing typical morphotypes of over 50 samples. Maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference (BI) phylogenetic reconstructions using ITS and rbcL revealed clades, which we identified as Ulva chaugulii, U. paschima and U. ohnoi. These three species have not been recorded from the Persian Gulf, Iran before. The morphology of U. chaugulii differed considerably from its species description, showing further evidence for extreme intraspecific variation in morphology in this cosmopolitan genus.
About the authors
Kiana Pirian is a PhD student of Biotechnology at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She graduated with a MSc in Biotechnology in 2009 and a BSc in Phytopathology in 2008 from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. Her PhD thesis is focusing on the molecular phylogenetic analysis of Iranian Ulva species, and the evaluation of chemical and phytochemical components of macroalgae (Ulvacea) from the Persian Gulf for nutritional and medicinal applications. She is also collaborating as a main partner in projects in Biotechnology (antitumoral activity of brown macroalgae and antidiabetic activity of macroalgae).
Khosro Piri currently a member of the Scientific Board of Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. He has a PhD in Plant Biotechnology and an MSc degree in Plant Engineering (tissue cultures) from Montpellier University, France. His BSc degree is in Agriculture from the Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. In addition to teaching in Biotechnology, Dr. Piri has collaborated on 30 research projects and supervised MSc and PhD theses. Currently he has over 40 published articles in national and international journals, 50 conference papers, three book compilations and six national patents. He is a member of the editorial board of three Iranian journals in the fields of plant production.
Jelveh Sohrabipour is an Associate Professor in Seaweed Biotechnology at Agriculture and Natural Resources Researches and Education Center of Hormozgan Province, Department of Natural Resources, Bandar Abbas, Iran. She has a PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Malaya, Malesia. Dr. Sohrabipour is an expert in molecular taxonomy of seaweeds and seaweed aquaculture and has 20 years’ experience in marine algal taxonomy in the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea. She is also interested in the biochemical composition and biomedical effects of seaweeds.
Saied Tamadoni Jahromi (D.V.M from Azad University) has a PhD in Biotechnology from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He is the head of Biotechnology Department and a member of the Scientific Board of Persian Gulf and Oman Sea Ecological Research Institute, Bandar Abbass, Iran. He was the leader of projects in biotechnology (antitumoral activity of brown macroalgae) and population genetics of viral diseases (characterization of novel microsatellite loci), and collaborated in projects of molecular investigations on marine resources. He was chosen as the top researcher in Hormozgan Province, Iran, in 2007 and 2015.
Jaanika Blomster is a university lecturer in Algal Systematics at the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. She received her PhD in Biology from Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland for her work on the systematics of Ulva. More recently her work has concentrated on metagenomics and algal systematics on Baltic Sea and Antarctic sea ice. © Photo: Linda Tammisto.
Acknowledgments
We thank Prof. Dring and the two anonymous reviewers for extremely useful comments on the manuscript.
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- New records and observations of macroalgae and associated pathogens from the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
- Evidence for the proposed merger of Pseudobryopsis papillata with Pseudobryopsis myura (Bryopsidaceae, Chlorophyta)
- Description of two new species of Ochtodes (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales) from Caribbean Mexico on the basis of morphological and molecular evidence
- Molecular and morphological characterisation of Ulva chaugulii, U. paschima and U. ohnoi (Ulvophyceae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran
- Scrippsiella trochoidea cysts in recent sediments from Amur Bay, Sea of Japan: distribution and phylogeny
- Biomass and productivity of seagrasses in Africa
- Photosynthesis and calcification in two Halimeda species from Phuket, Thailand
- Short communications
- Flowering and seed production in the subtropical seagrass, Halodule wrightii (shoal grass)
- Plastid terminal oxidase acts as an alternative electron sink in a marine cyanobacterium Arthrospira sp.
- A taxonomic re-examination of Saccharina longipedalis (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae), an endemic kelp species around Lake Akkeshi in eastern Hokkaido, Japan
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- In this issue
- Research articles
- Influences of hydrozoan colonization on proteomic profiles of the brown alga Saccharina japonica
- Light and temperature requirements for survival, growth and reproduction of the crustose coralline Lithophyllum stictaeforme from the Mediterranean Sea
- New records and observations of macroalgae and associated pathogens from the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
- Evidence for the proposed merger of Pseudobryopsis papillata with Pseudobryopsis myura (Bryopsidaceae, Chlorophyta)
- Description of two new species of Ochtodes (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales) from Caribbean Mexico on the basis of morphological and molecular evidence
- Molecular and morphological characterisation of Ulva chaugulii, U. paschima and U. ohnoi (Ulvophyceae) from the Persian Gulf, Iran
- Scrippsiella trochoidea cysts in recent sediments from Amur Bay, Sea of Japan: distribution and phylogeny
- Biomass and productivity of seagrasses in Africa
- Photosynthesis and calcification in two Halimeda species from Phuket, Thailand
- Short communications
- Flowering and seed production in the subtropical seagrass, Halodule wrightii (shoal grass)
- Plastid terminal oxidase acts as an alternative electron sink in a marine cyanobacterium Arthrospira sp.
- A taxonomic re-examination of Saccharina longipedalis (Laminariales, Phaeophyceae), an endemic kelp species around Lake Akkeshi in eastern Hokkaido, Japan
