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- Title
BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN CALOGLOSSA (DELESSERIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA) FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
- Authors
West, J.; Kamiya, M.; Zuccarello, G.
- Abstract
Caloglossa species are widely distributed in mangroves and salt marshes around the world and their life history patterns are being investigated in laboratory culture. In Australia all isolates of C. monosticha, C. postiae and C. ogasawaraensis have Polysiphonia-type (P-type) sexual life histories. Among the 70 C. leprieurii isolates from Australia and New Zealand P-type sexual reproduction also is dominant. However, ten isolates of C. leprieurii from the Spencer Gulf and the Gulf of St. Vincent in South Australia give rise to successive tetrasporphyte generations without gametophytes. Moreover, one isolate from Queensland is asexual. Only one South Australia isolate, obtained from Lake Alexandrina at the mouth of the Murray River, is sexual. South Australia and Pacific Mexico are two regions in which asexual reproduction is dominant. In another mangrove dwelling red alga Bostrychia moritiziana (Rhodomelaceae) non-sexual reproduction also is frequent in Australia, New Caledonia and Bali (Indonesia). This asexual reproductive pattern of tetrasporophytic recycling appears to have arisen independently among individual populations of various red algal species in different regions. Investigations are underway on the molecular phylogeny of the Caloglossa leprieurii isolates.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; NEW Zealand; ASEXUAL reproduction; DELESSERIACEAE; RED algae
- Publication
Journal of Phycology, 2000, Vol 36, p71
- ISSN
0022-3646
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.00001-209.x