Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Pages: 1216-1231

Journal: Journal of Phycology: An International Journal of Algal Research

Volume number: 56

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0022-3646

eISSN: 1529-8817

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13025

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 
The polyphasic approach has been widely applied in cyanobacterial taxonomy, which frequently led to additions to the species inventory. Increasing our knowledge about species and the habitats they were isolated from enables new insights into the ecology of newly established genera and species allowing speculations about the ecological niche of taxa. Here, we are describing three new species belonging to three genera that broadens the ecological amplitude and the geographical range of each of the three genera.Cyanocohniella crotaloidessp. nov. is described from sandy beach mats of the temperate island Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands,Oculatella crustae-formantessp. nov. was isolated from biological soil crusts of the Arctic Spitsbergen, Norway, andAliterella chasmolithicaoriginated from granitic stones of the arid Atacama Desert, Chile. All three species could be separated from related species using molecular sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and 16S-23S ITS gene region, the resulting secondary structures as well as p-distance analyses of the 16S-23S ITS and various microscopic techniques. The novel taxa described in this study contribute to a better understanding of the diversity of the generaCyanocohniella,Oculatella,andAliterellain different habitats.

Harvard Citation style: Jung, P., Mikhailyuk, T., Emrich, D., Baumann, K., Dultz, S. and Buedel, B. (2020) Shifting Boundaries: Ecological and Geographical Range extension Based on Three New Species in the Cyanobacterial GeneraCyanocohniella, Oculatella, and, Aliterella, Journal of Phycology: An International Journal of Algal Research, 56(5), pp. 1216-1231. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13025

APA Citation style: Jung, P., Mikhailyuk, T., Emrich, D., Baumann, K., Dultz, S., & Buedel, B. (2020). Shifting Boundaries: Ecological and Geographical Range extension Based on Three New Species in the Cyanobacterial GeneraCyanocohniella, Oculatella, and, Aliterella. Journal of Phycology: An International Journal of Algal Research. 56(5), 1216-1231. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13025