Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 14, 1242-1251, Copyright © 1997 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
N Daugbjerg and RA Andersen
Using the large subunit of RuBisCo (rbcL) sequences from cyanobacteria,
proteobacteria, and diverse groups of algae and green plants, we evaluated
the plastid relationship between haptophytes and heterokont algae. The rbcL
sequences were determined from three taxa of heterokont algae
(Bumilleriopsis filiformis, Pelagomonas calceolata, and Pseudopedinella
elastica) and added to 25 published sequences to obtain a data set
comprising 1,434 unambiguously aligned sites (approximately 98% of the
total rbcL gene). Higher levels of mutational saturation in third codon
positions were observed by plotting the pairwise substitutions with and
without corrections for multiple substitutions at the same site for first
and second codon positions only and for third positions only. In accordance
with this finding phylogeny reconstructions were completed by omitting
third codon positions, thus using 956 bp in weighted-parsimony and
maximum-likelihood analyses. The midpoint-rooted phylogenies showed two
major clusters, one containing cyanobacteria, glaucocystophytes, a
phototrophic euglenoid, chlorophytes, and embryophytes (the green lineage),
the other containing proteobacteria, haptophytes, red algae, a cryptophyte,
and heterokont algae (the non-green lineage). In the nongreen lineage, the
haptophytes formed a sister group to the clade containing heterokont algae,
red algae, and the cryptophyte Guillardia theta. This branching pattern was
well supported in terms of bootstrap values in weighted- parsimony and
maximum-likelihood analyses (100% and 92%, respectively). However, the
phylogenetic relationship among red algae, heterokonts, and a cryptophyte
taxon was not especially well resolved. A four- cluster analysis was
performed to further explore the statistical significance of the
relationship between proteobacteria, red algae (including and excluding
Guillardia theta), haptophytes, and heterokont algae. This test strongly
favored the hypothesis that the heterokonts and red algae are more closely
related to each other than either is to proteobacteria or haptophytes.
Hence, this molecular study based on a plastid-encoded gene provides
additional evidence for a distant relationship between haptophytes and the
heterokont algae. It suggests an evolutionary scenario in which the
ancestor of the haptophyte lineage engulfed a phototrophic eukaryote and,
more recently, the heterokont lineage became phototrophic by engulfing a
red alga.
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Phylogenetic analyses of the rbcL sequences from haptophytes and heterokont algae suggest their chloroplasts are unrelated
Department of Phycology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. nielsd@bot.ku.dk
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