A consensus secondary structure of ITS2 in the Chlorophyta identified by phylogenetic reconstruction

L Caisová, B Marin, M Melkonian - Protist, 2013 - Elsevier
The definition of species plays a pivotal role in biology. It has been proposed that
Compensatory Base Changes (CBCs) in the fast-evolving Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 …

A close-up view on ITS2 evolution and speciation-a case study in the Ulvophyceae (Chlorophyta, Viridiplantae)

L Caisová, B Marin, M Melkonian - BMC evolutionary biology, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Background The second Internal Transcriber Spacer (ITS2) is a fast evolving part of
the nuclear-encoded rRNA operon located between the 5.8 S and 28S rRNA genes. Based …

Internal transcribed spacer 2 (nu ITS2 rRNA) sequence-structure phylogenetics: towards an automated reconstruction of the green algal tree of life

MA Buchheim, A Keller, C Koetschan, F Förster… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Chloroplast-encoded genes (mat K and rbc L) have been formally proposed for
use in DNA barcoding efforts targeting embryophytes. Extending such a protocol to …

The internal transcribed spacer 2 exhibits a common secondary structure in green algae and flowering plants

JC Mai, AW Coleman - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1997 - Springer
Sequences of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS-2) regions of the nuclear rDNA repeats
from 111 organisms of the family Volvocaceae (Chlorophyta) and unicellular organisms of …

ITS2 data corroborate a monophyletic chlorophycean DO-group (Sphaeropleales)

A Keller, T Schleicher, F Förster, B Ruderisch… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2008 - Springer
Abstract Background Within Chlorophyceae the ITS2 secondary structure shows an
unbranched helix I, except for the'Hydrodictyon'and the'Scenedesmus' clade having a …

The Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Green Alga Pseudendoclonium akinetum (Ulvophyceae) Reveals Unusual Structural Features and New Insights into the …

JF Pombert, C Otis, C Lemieux… - Molecular biology and …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
One major lineage of green plants, the Chlorophyta, is represented by the green algal
classes Prasinophyceae, Ulvophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, and Chlorophyceae. The …

POLYPHYLETIC ORIGIN OF THE DICTYOSPHAERIUM MORPHOTYPE WITHIN CHLORELLACEAE (TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE)1

L Krienitz, C Bock, W Luo, T Pröschold - Journal of Phycology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The green algal Dictyosphaerium morphotype is characterized by spherical or oval cells
connected by gelatinized strands to microscopic colonies, which are covered by prominent …

The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early …

JF Pombert, C Lemieux, M Turmel - BMC biology, 2006 - Springer
Abstract Background The phylum Chlorophyta contains the majority of the green algae and
is divided into four classes. The basal position of the Prasinophyceae has been well …

[HTML][HTML] ITS2 and 18S rDNA sequence-structure phylogeny of Chlorella and allies (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorellaceae)

JS Heeg, M Wolf - Plant Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
In the last decade, the evolutionary diversity of Chlorella and allies has been discussed in a
huge number of publications using internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and/or 18S …

Analysis of rDNA ITS1 indels in Caulerpa taxifolia (Chlorophyta) supports a derived, incipient species status for the invasive strain

I Meusnier, M Valero, JL Olsen… - European Journal of …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
We analysed insertion-deletion patterns in 159 published sequences of ITS1 for Caulerpa
taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh collected from 55 localities throughout the species' range. Five …