title: Tracing the evolution of streptophyte algae and their mitochondrial genome.
abstract: Six monophyletic groups of charophycean green algae are recognized within the Streptophyta. Although incongruent with earlier studies based on genes from three cellular compartments, chloroplast and nuclear phylogenomic analyses have resolved identical relationships among these groups, placing the Zygnematales or the Zygnematales + Coleochaetales as sister to land plants. The present investigation aimed at determining whether this consensus view is supported by the mitochondrial genome and at gaining insight into mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evolution within and across streptophyte algal lineages and during the transition toward the first land plants. We present here the newly sequenced mtDNAs of representatives of the Klebsormidiales (Entransia fimbriata and Klebsormidium spec.) and Zygnematales (Closterium baillyanum and Roya obtusa) and compare them with their homologs in other charophycean lineages as well as in selected embryophyte and chlorophyte lineages. Our results indicate that important changes occurred at the levels of genome size, gene order, and intron content within the Zygnematales. Although the representatives of the Klebsormidiales display more similarity in genome size and intron content, gene order seems more fluid and gene losses more frequent than in other charophycean lineages. In contrast, the two members of the Charales display an extremely conservative pattern of mtDNA evolution. Collectively, our analyses of gene order and gene content and the phylogenies we inferred from 40 mtDNA-encoded proteins failed to resolve the relationships among the Zygnematales, Coleochaetales, and Charales; however, they are consistent with previous phylogenomic studies in favoring that the morphologically complex Charales are not sister to land plants.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Département de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-Informatique, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Turmel
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Otis
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lemieux
mesh_terms: D000460:Chlorophyta / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000235:genetics; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D057949:Streptophyta
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Charophyceae; Streptophyta; charophytes; genome evolution; mitochondrial DNA; phylogenomics
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