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Botanica Marina

ISSN: 1437-4323

Editor-in-chief: Matthew J. Dring

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Objective
Botanica Marina publishes high-quality contributions from all of the disciplines of marine botany at all levels of biological organisation from subcellular to ecosystem: chemistry and applications, genomics, physiology and ecology, phylogeny and biogeography. Research involving global or interdisciplinary interest is especially welcome. Applied science papers are appreciated, particularly when they illustrate the application of emerging conceptual issues or promote developing technologies. The journal invites state-of-the art reviews dealing with recent developments in marine botany.

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Cutting-edge topics such as, but not limited to, the following:

Biogeography
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Impacts of environmental change
Taxonomy and phylogenetics
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Call for Papers

Botanica Marina Special Issue "Phylogeny and Ecology of Ulva"

Guest Editors: Sophie Steinhagen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jonas Blomme (Ghent University, Belgium)

The Special Issue on Ulva aims to combine relevant scientific work on this important genus of green algae, ranging from species specific ecological traits to detailed phylogenetic aspects and case studies. Contributions on both basic and applied aspects are welcome. More details can be found here. The submission deadline is May 31, 2023.

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History

Since its founding in 1959, Botanica Marina has been published by De Gruyter.

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Volume 66 Issue 1

February 2023

Publicly Available February 9, 2023

Frontmatter

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Publicly Available February 9, 2023

In this issue

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Review

Publicly Available January 25, 2023

From Tasmania to the world: long and strong traditions in seaweed use, research, and development

Catriona L. Hurd, Jeffrey T. Wright, Cayne Layton, Elisabeth M. A. Strain, Damon Britton, Wouter Visch, Neville Barrett, Scott Bennett, Kim Jye Lee Chang, Graham Edgar, J. Helen Fitton, Dean Greeno, Ian Jameson, Craig R. Johnson, Sam S. Karpiniec, Gerald T. Kraft, Scott D. Ling, Catriona M. Macleod, Ellie R. Paine, Ahyoung Park, J. Craig Sanderson, Matthias Schmid, Fiona J. Scott, Victor Shelamoff, Damien N. Stringer, Masayuki Tatsumi, Camille A. White, Anusuya Willis

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Abstract

Tasmania is an island state in south-eastern Australia that has a long and rich history of seaweed use, research, and development. It is a cool-temperate system with 750 macroalgal species currently described. Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples have lived on this land for at least 40,000 years utilising seaweed as food, shelter, water carriers and medicine, as well as for ceremonial reasons. Modern taxonomic investigations began with French naturalist Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière in 1791, and there are 184 type specimens of seaweeds originating from Tasmania. Ecological and physiological studies of seaweed in Tasmania have focussed on the dominant large brown seaweeds (Laminariales and Fucales) and have contributed significantly to the global understanding of these systems, particularly related to community resilience, seaweed-urchin interactions, their habitat-forming role for other species, responses to global change, and restoration of lost habitat. Ocean warming and changing oceanography have caused a 95% decline in surface canopy cover of Macrocystis pyrifera in eastern Tasmania since the 1950s and led to a focus on restoring these lost forests. Tasmanian seaweed communities have a uniquely high proportion (up to ∼90%) of seaweeds that rely solely on CO 2 for photosynthesis, which has implications for responses to ocean acidification. Tasmania has industries that use brown seaweeds for fucoidan extraction and beach-cast harvest for alginates, fertilisers, and feeds for agriculture. New aquaculture initiatives include integrated multi-trophic aquaculture, offshore kelp mariculture and Asparagopsis cultivation for bioactive products to reduce methane emissions in ruminants, as and the development of unexploited species including Caulerpa spp. for food.

Physiology and Ecology

December 19, 2022

Bionomic study of the detritic bottoms dominated by macroalgae from the southern coast of Mallorca (Balearic Islands)

Sergi Joher, Sergi Martínez, Conxi Rodríguez-Prieto

Page range: 37-51

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This bionomic study of the detritic bottoms dominated by macroalgae from the south of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) includes a quantitative description of the algal communities found in the area, as well as their bathymetric and geographical distribution. The results presented here are based on data collected in two oceanographic campaigns conducted in July 2012 and September 2014, using a Jennings beam trawl. A hierarchical group average agglomerative clustering, accompanied by the SIMPROF test, allowed the identification of seven different macroalgal communities, of which two are described here for the first time: the Cryptonemia longiarticulata fields and the Maërl beds of indeterminate rhodoliths. Depth and rhodolith abundance were the two main features driving the distribution of these communities. We found that seven species contributed 70% of the similarity between samples (SIMPER test), with the indeterminate species of rhodoliths (23.6%) and the encrusting fleshy red alga, Agissea inamoena (15.6%) being the most important. The methodology used for the sample selection and quantification processes turned out to be very efficient and faster than other methods used for the characterization of macroalgal communities from detritic bottoms, suggesting that this study could serve as a baseline for similar studies and for future management and conservation actions.

Taxonomy/Phylogeny and Biogeography

January 4, 2023

Evidence for the reinstatement of Kallymeniopsis and the merger of the family Crossocarpaceae within the family Kallymeniaceae (Rhodophyta)

Anna V. Skriptsova, Svetlana Yu. Shibneva, Alexander A. Semenchenko

Page range: 53-66

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We present a three-gene phylogeny, based on nuclear (short fragment of large subunit ribosomal RNA gene, 1150 base pairs), chloroplast (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit) and mitochondrial (5′ region of the cytochrome oxidase subunit 1) genes, to determine the position of three species, Kallymeniopsis verrucosa , Beringia castanea and Crossocarpus lamuticus in the Gigartinales. These species were placed by Perestenko in the family Crossocarpaceae, a proposal that was not supported by most phycologists. The goal of this project was to resolve the taxonomic position of these three species and answer the question: Is the Crossocarpaceae a separate family? The concatenated multi-gene phylogeny and the individual gene trees show that these algae nest deeply within the family Kallymeniaceae; K . verrucosa and C . lamuticus are most closely related to species referred currently to the genus Erythrophyllum , whereas B . castanea is sister to the recently established Commanderella ruprechtiana . Taking into account the data on morphology, vegetative and reproductive anatomy of different species, we propose to revive the genus Kallymeniopsis with three species and to retain Crossocarpus as a separate genus. Beringia is a separate monotypic genus.

December 22, 2022

New observations on the rarely reported tropical dinoflagellates Tripos lanceolatus and T. schroeteri from the Colombian Caribbean, South Pacific and Indian Oceans

Luis Castro-Cera, Darío Vega-Díaz, Ruth S. Eriksen, Karine Leblanc, Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff

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We report the circumtropical dinoflagellate Tripos lanceolatus (Kofoid) F. Gómez from the Colombian Caribbean, provide a new record from the tropical western Pacific off Tonga, and the first record from the Australian sector of the Indian Ocean. We present the first scanning electron micrographs of thecal ornamentation and apical pore structure which show its morphological similarities to T. furca (Ehrenberg) F. Gómez within the subgenus Biceratium . We also report the more widely distributed tropical species T. schroeteri (B. Schröder) F. Gómez from the Colombian Caribbean, and compare it to the first scanning electron micrographs of the morphologically similar T. digitatus (F. Schütt) F. Gómez within the subgenus Archaeceratium .

January 4, 2023

Nitzschia venerata, sp. nov., a simulacrum for the conopeate, tube-dwelling diatom Nitzschia martiana, has scuta not conopea: a case of convergent evolution?

Christopher S. Lobban

Page range: 73-79

Abstract

Nitzschia martiana , recently restored to Homoeocladia (C. Agardh) emend Lobban et Ashworth, has needle-like cells and forms macroscopic colonies that are so distinctive that they have been reported on the basis of light microscopy alone. It is the type species for Homoeocladia , which have long flaps (conopea) arising from the sternum and covering a valve depression. This group has extreme diversity at the ultrastructural level and it would not be surprising to find another similar to H. martiana . However, Nitzschia venerata , sp. nov., is a surprising look-alike found in a coral reef seaweed sample from Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands (Western Pacific Ocean). It was studied with light- and scanning electron microscopy. Attempts to find colonies in live and preserved samples were unsuccessful. It is very long and narrow, with a valve depression like that in conopeate species. However, ultrastructurally it is not conopeate because the long flaps arise from the valve face and grow toward the keel and can therefore be classified as scuta. Although tube formation remains unknown, the extreme length and narrowness of the cells suggest it might occur, so that scientists identifying potential H. martiana should be alert to the possibility that they have N. venerata or some other needle-like Homoeocladia.

Genomics

January 4, 2023

Inconsistency between morphological diversity and genetic structuring: proposal for one species of Undaria in Japan

Shinya Uwai, Satomi Takagi, Takuma Sekiguchi, Nozomi Emura, Teruwo Morita, Akira Kurashima, Yoichi Sato

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Genetic structure analyses have yielded some examples of inconsistencies between genetic and morphological information. Here, eleven nuclear microsatellite markers and mitochondrial haplotypes were used to examine the genetic structure and gene flow among Japanese Undaria pinnatifida populations and the congeneric species U. undarioides and U. peterseniana . Undaria pinnatifida was subdivided into four “Groups” of populations based on Bayesian clustering analysis, Neighbor-net analysis and Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA). Undaria undarioides samples formed a unique Group. In contrast, U. peterseniana samples either grouped with a mixture of U. pinnatifida and U. undarioides clusters or were included within one of the U. pinnatifida clusters. More significantly, Groups of populations shared alleles with geographically adjacent Groups even between different morphospecies. No clear differences between the inter-and intra-specific genetic divergence were observed in either nuclear or mitochondrial markers. As a result, U. undarioides and U. peterseniana were synonymized with U. pinnatifida . Isolation-by-distance suggested the significance of geographical isolation for maintaining the observed divergence.

Annual Reviewer Acknowledgement

Publicly Available December 15, 2022

Reviewer acknowledgement Botanica Marina volume 65 (2022)

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Editor-in-Chief
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Roger Huerlimann (Townsville, Australia)
Ka-Lai Pang (Keelung, Taiwan)
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Charles D. Amsler (Birmingham, USA)
Inka Bartsch (Bremerhaven, Germany)
John A. Berges (Milwaukee, USA)
Sung Min Boo (Daejeon, Korea)
Olivier De Clerck (Ghent, Belgium)
Pilar Díaz-Tapia (A Coruña, Spain)
Jeffrey L. Gaeckle (Olympia, USA)
Catriona Hurd (Hobart, Australia)
James E. Kaldy (Newport, USA)
Frithjof C. Küpper (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Gavin W. Maneveldt (Bellville, South Africa)
Narongrit Muangmai (Bangkok, Thailand)
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Online ISSN: 1437-4323
Print ISSN: 0006-8055
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 1959
Publication Frequency: 6 Issues per Year
Audience: Scientists in all fields of marine phycology, seagrass and mangrove biology, marine mycology, marine microbiology and related areas