ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) АЛЬГОЛОГІЧНИЙ ВІСНИК (Київ) ІНФОРМАЦІЙНЕ ПОВІДОМЛЕННЯ № 17 КВІТЕНЬ 2002 http://herba.msu.ru/russian/journals/AV/ ЗМІСТ / СОДЕРЖАНИЕ / CONTENS ОГЛЯД НОВИН / ОБЗОР НОВОСТЕЙ / NEWS НАУКОВІ ФОРУМИ / НАУЧНЫЕ ФОРУМЫ / SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS НАУКОВА ПЕРІОДИКА / НАУЧНАЯ ПЕРИОДИКА / SCIENTIFIC PERIODICITY БІБЛІОГРАФІЯ / БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ / BIBLIOGRAPHY ІНТЕРНЕТ / ИНТЕРНЕТ / INTERNET ДИСКУСІЇ / ДИСКУССИИ / DISCUSSIONS ПЕРСОНАЛІЇ / ПЕРСОНАЛИИ / PERSONALITIES ДОШКА ОГОЛОШЕНЬ / ДОСКА ОБЪЯВЛЕНИЙ / IMPORTANT INFORMATION КОМЕНТАРІ ТА РЕЦЕНЗІЇ / КОММЕНТАРИИ И РЕЦЕНЗИИ / COMMENTS AND REFERENCES ЕКСПЕДИЦІЇ / ЭКСПЕДИЦИИ / EXPEDITIONS РІЗНЕ / РАЗНОЕ / DIFFERENTS НАУКОВІ ФОРУМИ / НАУЧНЫЕ ФОРУМЫ / SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 21th Colloquium of the Association of French speaking diatomists (ADLaF) Nantes (France), September 10-13, 2002 The colloquium will take place in the Museum of natural History, in the city centre. Participants are invited to present oral communications or posters (both in French) dealing with fossil and recent diatoms from freshwater, marine and brackish environments, taxonomy, ecology, water quality,... Statutory assembly of the association will be held on Thursday September12th in the late afternoon. Wednesday 11th will be partly devoted to an excursion to the Loire estuary area. Registration and deadline for abstracts of the oral communications and posters: June 28, 2002. Abstracts are to be sent to Dr Yves RINCE / ISOMer / 2, rue de la Houssiniиre, B.P. 92208, F44322 Nantes cedex 03, France. The conference registration fee is 50 euro. Information can be obtained at the association's web site: http://perso.club-internet.fr/clci/21emeColloqueADLaF.HTM http://perso.club-internet.fr/clci/diatom-ADLaF.htm or by e-mailing to the following address: Didier.GUILLARD@pays-de-la-loire.environnement.gouv.fr Secretariat and organisation of the colloquium: Didier GUILLARD, Maxence NAZART DIREN-SEMA Pays de la Loire 12, rue Menou F-44035-NANTES cedex France E-mail: Didier.GUILLARD@pays-de-la-loire.environnement.gouv.fr Source: http://www.seaweed.ie/algae-l/default.html ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 К 250-летию Московского Государственного Университета им. М.В. Ломоносова Одиннадцатое Международное совещание по филогении растений 28-31 января 2003 1е Информационное письмо Дорогие коллеги! Приглашаем Вас принять участие в работе Одиннадцатого Международного совещания по филогении растений, которое будет проходить 28 -31 января 2003 г. на Биологическом факультете МГУ. Председатель Оргкомитета: Декан Биологического факультета МГУ, заслуженный профессор МГУ М.В. Гусев Оргкомитет: член-корр. РАН, проф. В.Н. Павлов, проф. Ю.Т. Дьяков, проф. В.С. Новиков, д.б.н. А.К. Тимонин Секретарь Оргкомитета: М.Е.Площинская Предполагается обсуждение широкого круга вопросов по следующим основным направлениям: - Филогения разных групп грибов, высших и низших растений. - Основные особенности микро- и макроэволюции растений и грибов. - Структурные и молекулярно-генетические основания выявления филогении растений и грибов. Для участия в совещании необходимо до 15 сентября 2002 г. представить: 1. Заявку на участие в совещании с указанием Ф.И.О., места работы, должности, ученой степени, почтового адреса, факса и e-mail. 2. Просим представлять не более двух докладов от одного лица (второй - в соавторстве). 3. 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Оргвзнос ориентировочно составит 100 рублей (организационные расходы) с каждого участника, и 150 руб. за публикацию каждых тезисов (сумма зависит от числа тезисов, а не от числа авторов). Адрес Оргкомитета: 119 992, Москва, Ленинские горы, Московский государственный университет, ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 Биологический ф-т, каф. высших растений; Площинская Мария Евгеньевна Тел: (095)939 16 03 e-mail: ploshinskaya@herba.msu.ru Предпочтительной формой связи с Оргкомитетом является электронная почта. Мы будем очень признательны, если Вы сообщите эту информацию Вашим коллегам. С уважением, ОРГКОМИТЕТ Source: http://herba.msu.ru НАУКОВА ПЕРІОДИКА / НАУЧНАЯ ПЕРИОДИКА / SCIENTIFIC PERIODICITY JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY April 2002, Volume 38, Issue 2 Algae - Highlights: Russell L. Chapman and Debra A. Waters. Green algae and land plants—An answer at last? J. Phycol. 2002 38: 237-240. Ecology and Population Biology: Helena Guasch, Maria Paulsson, and Sergi Sabater. Effect of copper on algal communities from oligotrophic calcareous streams. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 241-248. Two sets of experiments were done to quantify the effects of chronic copper exposure on natural periphyton in a nonpolluted calcareous river. The results of short-term (up to 6 h exposure) experiments corroborated the significance of pH on copper toxicity. Copper toxicity increased when pH was reduced from 8.6 to 7.7, and this was related to the effect of pH on copper speciation (free copper concentration increased from 0.2% to 2.3% of total copper). Longer term experiments demonstrated that periphyton communities exposed to copper under pH variation (8.2–8.6) were already affected at 10 µg·L-1 (20–80 ng·L-1 Cu2+) after 12 days of exposure. Copper exposure caused stronger effects on structural (algal biomass and community structure) than on functional (photosynthetic efficiency) parameters of peri- phyton. Changes in community composition included the enhancement of some taxa (Gomphonema gracile), the inhibition of others (Fragilaria capucina and Phormidium sp.), and the appearance of filament malformations (Mougeotia sp.). The results of our study demonstrated that several weeks of exposure to copper (10–20 µg·L-1) were sufficient to cause chronic changes in the periphyton of oligotrophic calcareous rivers. This degree of copper pollution can be commonly found in the Mediterranean region as a result of agricultural practices and farming activities. SUMMARY. Kathleen M. Rühland and John P. Smol. Freshwater diatoms from the Canadian Arctic treeline and development of paleolimnological inference models. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 249-264. Relationships between surface sediment diatom assemblages and measured environmental variables from 77 lakes in the central Canadian arctic treeline region were examined using multivariate statistical methods. Lakes were distributed across the arctic treeline from boreal forest to arctic tundra ecozones, along steep climatic and environmental gradients. Forward selection in canonical correspondence analysis determined that dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), total nitrogen (TN), lake surface area, silica, lake-water depth, and iron explained significant portions of diatom species variation. Weighted-averaging (WA) regression and calibration techniques were used to develop inference models for DIC, DOC, and TN from the estimated optima of the diatom taxa to these environmental variables. Simple WA models with classical deshrinking produced models with the strongest predictive abilities for all three variables based on the bootstrapped root mean squared errors of prediction (RMSEP). WA partial least squares showed little improvement over the simpler WA models as judged by the jackknifed RMSEP. These models suggest that it is possible to infer trends in DIC, DOC, and TN from fossil diatom assemblages from suitably chosen lakes in the central Canadian arctic treeline region. SUMMARY. Pauli Snoeijs, Svenja Busse, and Marina Potapova. The importance of diatom cell size in community analysis. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 265-281. ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 The large variation in size and shape in diatoms is shown by morphometric measurements of 515 benthic and pelagic diatom species from the Baltic Sea area. The largest mean cell dimension (mostly the apical axis) varied between 4.2 and 653 µm, cell surface area between 55 and 344,000 µm2, and cell volume between 21 and 14.2 x 106 µm3. The shape-related index, length to width ratio, was between 1.0 and 63.3 and the shape- and size-related index, surface area to volume ratio, was between 0.02 and 3.13. Diatom community analysis by multivariate statistics is usually based on counts of a fixed number of diatom valves with species scores irrespective of cell size. This procedure underestimates the large species for two reasons. First, the importance of a species with higher cell volume is usually larger in a community. Second, larger species usually have lower abundances and their occurrence in the diatom counts is stochastic. This article shows that co-occurring small and large diatom species can respond very differently to environmental constraints. Large epiphytic diatoms responded most to macroalgal host species and small epiphytic diatoms most to environmental conditions at the sampling site. Large epilithic diatoms responded strongly to salinity, whereas small epilithic diatoms did so less clearly. The conclusion is that different scale-dependent responses are possible within one data set. The results from the test data also show that important ecological information from diatom data can be missed when the large species are neglected or underestimated. SUMMARY. Rodney D. Roberts, Michael Kühl, Ronnie Nøhr Glud, and Søren Rysgaard. Primary production of crustose coralline red algae in a high arctic fjord. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 273-283. Crustose coralline algae occupied ~ 1%–2% (occasionally up to 7%) of the sea floor within their depth range of 15–50 m, and they were the dominant encrusting organisms and macroalgae beyond 20 m depth in Young Sound, NE Greenland. In the laboratory, oxygen microelectrodes were used to measure net photosynthesis (P) versus downwelling irradiance (Ed) and season for the two dominant corallines [Phymatolithon foecundum (Kjellman) Düwel et Wegeberg 1996 and Phymatolithon tenue (Rosenvinge) Düwel et Wegeberg 1996] representing > 90% of coralline cover. Differences in P-Ed curves between the two species, the ice-covered and open-water seasons, or between specimens from 17 and 36 m depth were insignificant. The corallines were low light adapted, with compensation irradiances (Ec) averaging 0.7–1.8 µmol photons·m-2·s-1 and light adaptation (Ek) indices averaging 7–17 µmol photons·m-2·s-1. Slight photoinhibition was evident in most plants at irradiances up to 160 µmol photons·m-2·s-1. Photosynthetic capacity (Pm) was low, averaging 43–67 mmol O2·m-2 thallus·d-1 (~ 250–400 g C·m-2 thallus·yr-1). Dark respiration rates averaged ~ 5 mmol O2·m-2 thallus·d-1. In ice covered periods, Ed at 20 m depth averaged ~ 1 µmol photons·m-2·s-1, with daily maxima of 2–3 µmol photons·m-2·s-1. During the open water season, Ed at 20 m depth averaged ~ 7 µmol photons·m-2·s-1 with daily maxima of ~ 30 µmol photons·m-2·s-1. Significant net primary production of corallines was apparently limited to the 2–3 months with open water, and the small contribution of corallines to primary production seems due to low Pm values, low in situ irradiance, and their relatively low abundance in Young Sound. SUMMARY. Britas Klemens Eriksson, Gustav Johansson, and Pauli Snoeijs. Long-term changes in the macroalgal vegetation of the inner Gullmar Fjord Swedish Skagerrak coast. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 284-296. We examined long-term changes in the macroalgal vegetation at Stora Bornö Island in the inner Gullmar Fjord on the Swedish Skagerrak coast. This was made possible by access to a 1941 diving investigation. The same sites were reinvestigated in 1998. Community composition and depth distributions of species were compared and changes were analyzed with focus on functional groups (size, thallus shape, and life-history traits). We discovered a significant decrease in the depth extension of macroalgal species and a dramatic decline of species richness in the lower littoral (below 16 m of depth) compared with 57 years earlier. Ordination analysis revealed that there was a significant difference in the community composition between the two study periods. In general, small (<10 cm), thin, filamentous, and aseasonal ephemerals increased in relative abundance, whereas larger (>10 cm), coarsely branched, and perennial algae decreased. Calibrations of individual species to local sediment cover, using canonical correspondence analysis, indicated that part of the change in species composition was related to sediment load. Furthermore, large-scale climate differences (NAO Winter Index) between the study periods indicated a higher impact of Baltic Sea and Kattegat water in the nutrient dynamics of the fjord in the 1998 study. We concluded that the observed longterm changes in the macroalgal community at Stora Bornö Island were consistent with an increased nutrient availability. SUMMARY. ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 Physiology and Biochemistry: Yukie Yoshii, Shinichi Takaichi, Takashi Maoka, Satoshi Hanada, and Isao Inouye. Characterization of two unique carotenoid fatty acid esters from Pterosperma cristatum (Prasinophyceae, Chlorophyta). J. Phycol. 2002 38: 297-303. Carotenoid composition and spectroscopic characteristics were analyzed for Pterosperma cristatum Schiller, one of the most primitive known members of green algae. This alga contained a substantial amount of carotenoid esters, siphonaxanthin C14:1 trans-Δ2 ester and 6'-OH siphonaxanthin C14:1 trans-Δ2 ester, but lacked lutein. This is the first report of carotenoid C14:1 trans-Δ2 esters from phototrophic organisms. In vivo absorption spectra and excitation spectra of the cells revealed that these carotenoids absorbed blue-green light and could transfer energy to chl a. These carotenoids were concluded to function as antenna pigments in P. cristatum. SUMMARY. Myung-Soo Han, Young-Pil Kim, and Rose Ann Cattolico. Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae) resting cell formation in batch culture: strain identity versus physiological response. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 304-317. In this study, we examined the impact of environmental perturbation on the movement of the toxic bloom-forming alga Heterosigma akashiwo (Hada) Hada ex Y. Hara et Chihara [syn. H. carterae (Hulburt) F.J.R. Taylor] between vegetative and resting cell phases of the life history. Resting state induction, in batch culture, was most effective when vegetative cells were subjected to low temperature (10° C) and darkness for extended time periods. Heterosigma cells in stasis had neither a cell wall nor scales but were surrounded by a calyx, most probably of polysaccharide composition. The resting cell was completely immobile, although both flagella remained attached. Heterosigma resting cells did not require a maturation period before successful activation to the vegetative state could occur. Cell division and motility were impacted sequentially during both the induction and activation phases of resting cell development. Our data show that Heterosigma had an obligate light requirement for resting cell activation. In replete medium, very low light fluences of 5 µmol photons·m-2·s-1 were as effective as 60 µmol photons·m-2·s-1 in the initiation of activation. Such sensitivity to extremely low light might give Heterosigma a competitive advantage for bloom formation in nature. Reduced nitrate levels significantly shortened the temporal transition of vegetative cells into the resting cell phase of the life history. Additionally, when resting cells induced in nitrate-limited medium were activated under nitrate-replete condition, the efficiency of the activation response was directly correlated to light availability. Both vegetative and resting cells maintained a haploid DNA complement. Rapid amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis demonstrated variation in genetic identity among axenic Heterosigma strains. Strain identity influenced success in resting cell induction and survival in stasis. To date, no defined sexual cycle has been described. These observations are discussed in terms of population fitness. The data presented in this report provide a model algal system wherein the molecular events that govern long-term stasis in an obligately autotrophic organism can now be assessed. SUMMARY. Shinya Yoshikawa, Chikako Nagasato, Yumiko Makino, Akio Murakami, Hiroshi Kawai, Terunobu Ichimura, and Taizo Motomura. Nuclear histone proteins of gametes in an oogamous and two isogamous brown algae. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 318-324. Nuclear basic proteins (histones) were studied in male and female gametes of the isogamous brown algae, Colpomenia bullosa (Saunders) Yamada and Analipus japonicus (Harvey) Wynne and sperm of the oogamous Cystoseira hakodatensis (Yendo) Fensholt by using SDS- and AUT-PAGE. Four major core histones and several linker histone H1s were detected by electrophoresis. Each of the core histones was identified by amino acid sequence analysis and peptide mapping. Electrophoresis patterns of histones were the same in male and female gametes and quite similar between the two species. The composition of histone H1s in conspicuously condensed sperm nuclei of C. hakodatensis was different from that in isogamous gametes. Electrophoresis after micrococcal nuclease digestion of chromatin in male and female gamete nuclei of C. bullosa and A. japonicus and sperm of C. hakodatensis resulted in regular ladder patterns of DNA fragments (ca. 200 base pair). The chromatin of the brown algal gametes thus has the typical nucleosome structure. These results showed that chromatin condensation in sperm nuclei of C. hakodatensis was associated with a modification of linker histone H1 but not by change of core histones, replacement by other basic proteins, changes of repeating patterns, or disappearance of nucleosomes. SUMMARY. Mirash Zhekisheva, Sammy Boussiba, Inna Khozin-Goldberg, Aliza Zarka, and Zvi Cohen. Accumulation of oleic acid in Haematococcus pluvialis (Chlorophyceae) under nitrogen ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 starvation or high light is correlated with that of astaxanthin esters. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 325331. The chlorophyte Haematococcus pluvialis accumulates large quantities of astaxanthin under stress conditions. Under either nitrogen starvation or high light, the production of each picogram of astaxanthin was accompanied by that of 5 or 3–4 pg of fatty acids, respectively. In both cases, the newly formed fatty acids, consisting mostly of oleic (up to 34% of fatty acids in comparison with 13% in the control), palmitic, and linoleic acids, were deposited mostly in triacylglycerols. Furthermore, the enhanced accumulation of oleic acid was linearily correlated with that of astaxanthin. Astaxanthin, which is mostly monoesterified, is deposited in globules made of triacylglycerols. We suggest that the production of oleic acid-rich triacylglycerols on the one hand and the esterification of astaxanthin on the other hand enable the oil globules to maintain the high content of astaxanthin esters. SUMMARY. Ana T. Lombardi, Armando A. H. Vieira, and Luiz A. Sartori. Mucilaginous capsule adsorption and intracellular uptake of copper by Kirchneriella aperta (Chlorococcales). J. Phycol. 2002 38: 332-337. The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate possible ecological and physiological functions of mucilaginous capsules produced by the freshwater algae Kirchneriella aperta Teiling (Chlorococcales) as related to copper ions. All experiments were performed using synthetic media under laboratory-controlled conditions. Copper interactions were investigated by distinguishing between adsorption onto the mucilaginous material present at the surface of the cells, intracellular uptake, and differentiation between total dissolved copper and free copper ions in the culture medium. Kirchneriella aperta is sensitive to copper, as revealed by a 96-h EC50 value of 10-9.22 M Cu2+. We demonstrated that the mucilaginous capsules were able to sequester copper ions from the medium through a passive mechanism, thus providing the cell with a mechanism able to postpone the toxic effects of copper. The organic material that diffuses into the test medium as well as the mucilaginous capsules produced by K. aperta both effectively complex copper; thus, toxicity must be related to free copper ions and not the total dissolved copper concentration in the medium. SUMMARY. Runar Thyrhaug, Aud Larsen, Corina P. D. Brussaard, and Gunnar Bratbak. Cell cycle dependent virus production in marine phytoplankton. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 338-343. In this study we investigated virus production in two marine phytoplankton species and how it relates to the host's cell cycle. Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim and Pyramimonas orientalis McFadden, Hill & Wetherby, growing synchronously in batch cultures, were infected with their respective viruses (PpV and PoV) at four different stages in the cell cycle and the production of free virus was then measured for 30 h. The virus production in P. orientalis infected with PoV depended on the time of infection, whereas no such relation was found for P. pouchetii infected with PpV. The P. orientalis cultures infected at the end of the dark period and at the beginning of the light period produced three times more virus than those infected in the middle of the light period and eight times more virus than those infected at the beginning of the dark period. The latent periods for PpV and PoV were 12–14 h and 18–20 h, respectively, and in both cases were independent of the host cell cycle. The differences in virus production may be attributed to light or cell cycle dependent regulation of host infection, metabolism, or burst size. Regardless of the mechanism, these differences may be related to differences in the ecological strategies of the hosts and their ability to form blooms. SUMMARY. José Manuel Estevez, Marina Ciancia, and Alberto Saúl Cerezo. Carrageenans biosynthesized by carposporophytes of red seaweeds Gigartina skottsbergii (Gigartinaceae) and Gymnogongrus torulosus (Phyllophoraceae). J. Phycol. 2002 38: 344-350. Carrageenans biosynthesized by gametophytic and tetrasporic plants of seaweeds belonging to the Gigartinaceae and Phyllophoraceae are different: gametophytes produce carrageenans of the kappa family, whereas lambda-carrageenans are extracted from tetrasporophytes. For Gigartina skottsbergii Setchell and Gardner and Gymnogongrus torulosus Hooker et Harvey, mature cystocarps were isolated and carrageenans were extracted. Structural determination by methylation analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and 13C-NMR spectroscopy showed that they were kappa/iota-carrageenans. For the extract obtained from cystocarps of Gigartina skottsbergii with water at room temperature, the ratio kappa:iota was 1:0.30 and at 90° C was 1:0.43; significant amounts of precursors were also present. The extract obtained from cystocarps of Gymnogongrus torulosus at 90° C showed prevalence of iota-carrageenans (ratio kappa:iota 1:1.21). These ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 extracts are similar to the polysaccharides produced by gametophytes of these seaweeds. For Gigartina skottsbergii, it was possible to separate the pericarpic tissue from the carposporophyte. Thus, they were extracted separately, and the carrageenans isolated were studied as described before, obtaining similar conclusions. These results clearly show that whereas the carposporophytes are located inside the cystocarp, they produce carrageenans of the kappa family despite of being diploid cells. SUMMARY. Cellular and Molecular Biology: Allison M. L. van de Meene and Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps. Valve morphogenesis in the centric diatom Proboscia alata Sundstrom. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 351-363. Valve morphogenesis in Proboscia alata Sundstrom was followed in living cells and during treatment with antiactin and antimicrotubule drugs. Once cleaved, sibling cells rounded up and retracted. Soon, a granular organizing center (OC) appeared adjacent to the stub of the initiated valve. Silicification started within a silicon deposition vesicle (SDV) adjacent to the OC. The elongating valve was initially tubular and sealed at one end, creating the proboscis of the conical valve. The edge of the SDV and thinnest region of the forming valve was lined by a sleeve of bundled microtubules (MTs) that terminated short of the older more rigid part of the valve. The growing proboscis of living cells treated with the anti-MT drug oryzalin became grossly distorted. EM revealed dense material lining the growing edge of the SDV; immunofluorescence microscopy showed a ring of actin here. Applied to living cells, the antiactin drug cytochalasin D caused the very young proboscis to collapse; in older valves, the base of the proboscis expanded. Thus, valve morphogenesis appeared controlled by the MT cytoskeleton, keeping the proboscis straight while actin molded its conical outline. At the tip of the proboscis was a slit resembling a labiate process. Its morphogenesis involved striated fibers and two MTs, reminiscent of the fibers and MTs associated with raphe morphogenesis. In contrast to spine-like processes that elongate by tip growth, the tip of the proboscis was formed first, and the consequent "antitip growth" suggests the tip was originally the center of the valve face. SUMMARY. Phylogenetics and Taxonomy: Monique Turmel, Megumi Ehara, Christian Otis, and Claude Lemieux. Phylogenetic relationships among streptophytes as inferred from chloroplast small and large subunit rRNA gene sequences. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 364-375. To gain insights into the phylogeny of charophytes and into their relationships with other green algae and bryophytes, we analyzed the chloroplast small and large subunit rRNA sequences of charophytes belonging to five orders (Charales, Coleochaetales, Desmidiales, Klebsormidiales, and Zygnematales), of chlorophytes from the four remaining classes of green algae, and of bryophytes representing the three classes reported in this group of land plants. We also probed the gene organization and intron content of the chloroplast rDNA operon in charophytes and bryophytes. The organization of this operon proved to be highly conserved, except in members of the Desmidiales and Zygnematales. Homologous group II introns were identified in the trnA(UGC) gene of all charophyte groups examined and in the trnI(GAU) gene of charophytes from all orders except the Desmidiales and Zygnematales. Phylogenetic analyses of concatenated rDNA sequences consistently placed the prasinophyte Mesostigma viride Lauterborn at the base of the Streptophyta and Chlorophyta, although alternative topologies positioning Mesostigma within the Streptophyta could not be rejected. A sister group relationship was unambiguously established between Chaetosphaeridium globosum (Nordstedt) Klebahn and members of the Coleochaetales. The Charales, Coleochaetales, Desmidiales, and Zygnematales were found to be monophyletic, and a sister group relationship was observed for the Desmidiales and Zygnematales. Although our analyses failed to resolve the branching order of the Coleochaetales, Charales, Desmidiales/Zygnematales, and bryophytes, they revealed that the problematic charophyte taxon Entransia fimbriata Hughes strongly clusters with Klebsormidium flaccidum (Kützing) Silva, Mattox et Blackwell to form a basal lineage relative to the other charophyte orders examined. SUMMARY. Mark A. Buchheim, Julie A. Buchheim, Tracy Carlson, and Paul Kugrens. Phylogeny of Lobocharacium (Chlorophyceae) and allies: A study of 18S and 26S rDNA data. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 376-383. The phylogenetic affinities of Lobocharacium coloradoense were investigated by analysis of combined 18S and 26S rDNA data. Results from both parsimony and likelihood methods supported a close alliance among Lobocharacium, Characiosiphon, and Characiochloris. These three taxa formed a clade near ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 the base of the "Dunaliella" group within the chlamydomonad lineage. Protosiphon, which exhibits a siphonous habit similar to Characiosiphon and Lobocharacium, was not resolved as a close ally of the latter two taxa. The Lobocharacium alliance was characterized by the presence of an attachment pad associated with the nonmotile vegetative stage and pyrenoids that possess cytoplasmic invaginations. The pyrenoid feature is an ultrastructural trait that has now been observed in five different chlorophycean lineages. The Lobocharacium–Characiosiphon–Characiochloris clade is not predicted by any classifications of green algae. Additional taxon and data sampling need to be completed to resolve inconsistencies between the molecular phylogenetic evidence and at least some of the current family-level taxa. SUMMARY. Denis Baurain, Laurent Renquin, Stana Grubisic, Patsy Scheldeman, Amha Belay, and Annick Wilmotte. Remarkable conservation of internally transcribed spacer sequences of Arthrospira ("Spirulina") (Cyanophyceae, Cyanobacteria) strains from four continents and of recent and 30-year-old dried samples from Africa. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 384-393. The internally transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences of 21 Arthrospira clonal strains from four continents and assigned to four different species (A. platensis, A. maxima, A. fusiformis, A. indica) in the culture collections were determined. Two main clusters, I and II, were differentiated by 49 positions out of 475 nt or 477 nt, respectively. Each cluster was further subdivided into two subclusters. Subclusters I.A and I.B were separated by two substitutions, whereas subclusters II.A and II.B were distinguished by four substitutions. After direct sequencing of the PCR products, three dried samples from Chad aged between 3 months and 35 years yielded a sequence belonging to subcluster I.A, as did a recent commercial product. The strains grown in production plants belonged to the same (sub)clusters as strains from culture collections, mainly I.A and II. PCR primers specific for each cluster and subcluster were designed and tested with crude cell lysates of Arthrospira strains. One dried sample ("dihé" 1) and a herbarium sample from Lake Sonachi (Kenya) only contained I.A sequences, whereas the commercial product was a mixture of the four genotypes and the other two dried samples contained minor polymorphisms characteristic of different clusters. Five clonal Arthrospira strains, thought to be duplicates, showed the simultaneous presence of the two forms of the four diagnostic positions that distinguish subclusters genotype II.A and genotype II.B. This is likely to be caused by multiple copies of the rDNA operon, in a intermediate stage of homogenization between subcluster II.A and subcluster II.B. The high conservation of ITS sequences is in contrast with the assignment to four different species, the great morphological variability of the strains, and their wide geographic distribution. SUMMARY. Charles F. Delwiche, Kenneth G. Karol, Matthew T. Cimino, and Kenneth J. Sytsma. Phylogeny of the genus Coleochaete (Coleochaetales, Charophyta) and related taxa inferred by analysis of the chloroplast gene rbcL. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 394-403. The genus Coleochaete Bréb. is considered to be a key taxon in the evolution of green algae and embryophytes (land plants), but only a few of the approximately 15 species have been studied with molecular phylogenetic methods. We report here the sequences of the gene rbcL from six new cultures of Coleochaete and two of Chaetosphaeridium Klebahn. These sequences were combined with 32 additional sequences, and phylogenetic analyses were performed with maximum likelihood, distance optimality, and parsimony methods. Important subgroups within Coleochaete include two primary lineages, one marked by fully corticated zygotes and the other by naked or weakly corticated zygotes. In the first lineage there is a subclade with tightly joined filaments and distinctive ("T-shaped") cell division, an assemblage of strains that resembles the endophytic species Coleochaete nitellarum Jost, and a clade with loosely joined filaments and "Y-shaped" cell divisions. Consistent with recent multigene phylogenies, these analyses support the monophyly of the Coleochaetales, place the Charales as the sister taxon to land plants, and indicate that Chaetosphaeridium is far more closely related to Coleochaete than to Mesostigma Lauterborn. SUMMARY. Techniques: Isabelle C. Biegala, Gabrielle Kennaway, Elsa Alverca, Jean-François Lennon, Daniel Vaulot, and Nathalie Simon. Identification of bacteria associated with dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) Alexandrium spp. using tyramide signal amplification–fluorescent in situ hybridization and confocal microscopy. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 404-411. In the marine environment, phytoplankton and bacterioplankton can be physically associated. Such association has recently been hypothesized to be involved in the toxicity of the dinoflagellate genus Alexandrium. However, the methods, which have been used so far to identify, localize, and quantify bacteria ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 associated with phytoplankton, are either destructive, time consuming, or lack precision. In the present study we combined tyramide signal amplification–fluorescent in situ hybridization (TSA-FISH) with confocal microscopy to determine the physical association of dinoflagellate cells with bacteria. Dinoflagellate attached microflora was successfully identified with TSA-FISH, whereas FISH using monolabeled probes failed to detect bacteria, because of the dinoflagellate autofluorescence. Bacteria attached to entire dinoflagellates were further localized and distinguished from those attached to empty theca, by using calcofluor and DAPI, two fluorochromes that stain dinoflagellate theca and DNA, respectively. The contribution of specific bacterial taxa of attached microflora was assessed by double hybridization. Endocytoplasmic and endonuclear bacteria were successfully identified in the nonthecate dinoflagellate Gyrodinium instriatum. In contrast, intracellular bacteria were not observed in either toxic or nontoxic strains of Alexandrium spp. Finally, the method was successfully tested on natural phytoplankton assemblages, suggesting that this combination of techniques could prove a useful tool for the simultaneous identification, localization, and quantification of bacteria physically associated with dinoflagellates and more generally with phytoplankton. SUMMARY. Book Reviews: Robert C. Carpenter. Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology. J. Phycol. 2002 38: 412414. Source: http://www.jphycol.org/ БІБЛІОГРАФІЯ / БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ / BIBLIOGRAPHY Флора и фауна водоемов и водотоков Баргузинского заповедника (Аннотированные списки видов) // Флора и фауна заповедников СССР. Вып. 91. М., 2000. 180 с. Тираж 250 экз. В 91 выпуск "Флора и фауна заповедников СССР" вошла работа, посвященная флоре водорослей Баргузинского заповедника: А.Б. Бочка. Водоросли (под редакцией Г.Ф. Мазеповой). С.8-123. Source: http://herba.msu.ru/ PROSEA: 15: CRYPTOGAMS: ALGAE Edited by WF Prud'homme van Reine and GC Trono PROSEA: Plant Resources of South-East Asia 15. 318 pages, figs, tabs. To order on-line: http://www.nhbs.com/xbscripts/bkfsrch?search=107939 Price:GBP85 2001 NHBS Stock Code:#107939A hardback Backhuys, Netherlands CYANOBACTERIAL AND ALGAL METABOLISM AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Edited by T Fatma 272 pages. To order on-line: http://www.nhbs.com/xbscripts/bkfsrch?search=123459 Price:GBP57.50 1999 NHBS Stock Code:#123459A hardback Alpha Science Source: http://www.nhbs.com/ ENVIRONMENTAL НОВАЯ МОНОГРАФИЯ Уважаемые коллеги! Вышла в свет коллективная монография, некоторые сведения о которой я посылаю для информации в Альгологическом Вестнике. Она вызвала большой интерес у специалистов, однако тираж ее ограничен (300 экз.).Стоимость одного экз. 20 грн. (+ почтовые расходы). Если это издание вызовет интерес у специалистов, активно пользующихся Интренетом, мы готовы поместить некоторые главы, или даже всю ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 монографию на сайте Отдела проблем качества водной среды (http://bioassay.narod.ru). Анна Георгиевна Петросян Ст.н.с. отдела Проблем качества водной среды Одесского филиала Института биологии южных морей НАН Украины Контактный адрес: biotest@ukr.net ОФ ИНБЮМ Килийская часть дельты Дуная весной 2000 г.: Состояние экосистем и последствия техногенных катастроф в бассейне Одесса, 2001. НАН Украины, Одесский филиал института биологии южных морей 128 с. Ил. 19, табл. 46, библиогр. 104 назв. Редакционная коллегия выпуска: Ответственный редактор: к.б.н. Б.Г.Александров. Ю.П. Зайцев, академик НАН Украины, А.К. Виноградов, д-р.биол.наук., Л.В. Воробьева, д-р.биол.наук., В.Н. Золотарев, д-р.биол.наук., В.А. Иваница, д-р.биол.наук., профессор, Г.Г. Миничева, д-р.биол.наук. Ответственный секретарь – А.Г. Петросян, канд. биол. наук Аннотация Монография подготовлена на базе материалов Государственной санитарноэпидемиологической станции Одесской области и Дунайской ГМО (г. Измаил), данных комплексных экспедиционных исследований, проведенных силами временного творческого коллектива под руководством к.х.н. Н.И. Рясинцевой (ОФ ИнБЮМ НАН Украины) в период с 22 по 27 апреля 2000 г. и анализа ретроспективных материалов. В работе дан анализ гидрологических, гидрохимических и гидробиологических характеристик района нижнего течения реки Дунай, Килийской дельты и авандельты. Показаны изменения загрязнения цианидами и тяжелыми металлами в контролируемых створах, дана общая санитарногигиеническая, экологическая и токсикологическая оценка качества вод и донных отложений. На основании сравнения с аналогичными периодами предыдущих лет показаны изменения качества среды и характеристик сообществ фитопланктона, зоопланктона и макрозообентоса. Выявлены факторы экологического риска прямо или косвенно связанные с техногенным воздействием. Проведена предварительная оценка размеров платежей за сброс загрязняющих веществ в поверхностные воды и ущерба рыбным запасам вследствие аварийных сбросов предприятиями Румынии токсичных загрязняющих веществ (цианиды, тяжелые металлы) в период с 31 января по 10 марта 2000 г. Издание рассчитано на специалистов в области гидрологии, гидрохимии, гидробиологии и экологии, а также охраны и рационального использования водных и рыбных ресурсов. Печатается по решению Ученого совета ОФ ИнБЮМ НАН Украины © Одесский филиал Института биологии южных морей НАН Украины ISBN 966-02-2186-X СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ВВЕДЕНИЕ (Н.И. Рясинцева) Глава 1. РАЙОН РАБОТ, ПРОГРАММА И МАТЕРИАЛЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ (Н.И. Рясинцева) Глава 2. ГИДРОЛОГИЯ, ГИДРОХИМИЯ, ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЕ ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 Гидрологические и гидрохимические условия (В.В. Адобовский, О.Р. Крутько, Н.И. Рясинцева, Т.И. Коновалова) Уровень загрязнения вод и донных отложений (П.Т. Савин, Н.И. Рясинцева, Н.Ф. Подплетная, С.А. Доценко) Цианиды в воде и донных отложениях (Л.И. Засыпка, Л.А. Харина, Н.И. Рясинцева, Ю.Е. Михалечко) Тяжелые металлы в воде и донных отложениях (Л.И. Засыпка, Л.А. Харина, Н.И. Рясинцева, Л.Ю. Секундяк, Е.А. Павлова, Ю.Е. Чумак) Глава 3. СООБЩЕСТВА ПЕЛАГИАЛИ И БЕНТАЛИ Бактериопланктон и бактериобентос (Н.Г. Теплинская) Фитопланктон (Д.А. Нестерова, А.И. Иванов) Физиологическое состояние сообществ фитопланктона (И.А. Скрипник, Е.В. Кирсанова) Зоопланктон (Л.Н. Полищук) Макрозообентос (И.А. Синегуб) Глава 4. ИНТЕГРАЛЬНАЯ ОЦЕНКА КАЧЕСТВА ВОДЫ И ДОННЫХ ОТЛОЖЕНИЙ УКРАИНСКОЙ ЧАСТИ р. ДУНАЙ В СВЯЗИ С ПОСЛЕДСТВИЯМИ ТЕХНОГЕННЫХ КАТАСТРОФ (С.Е. Дятлов, А.Г. Петросян, О.Ф. Ганган, М.С. Дятлова) Глава 5.ОЦЕНКА ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО УЩЕРБА ОТ ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЯ Определение размера платежей за сброс загрязняющих веществ в воды украинского участка р. Дунай (Ю.Е. Михалечко) Расчет ущерба, нанесенного рыбному хозяйству в результате загрязнения вод украинского участка р. Дунай (С.Г. Бушуев, В.Е. Рыжко, Е.Г. Воля) Оценка экономического ущерба, нанесенного загрязнением популяциям проходных осетровых бассейна р. Дунай (Ю.А. Лукаржевский) Оценка ущерба от потери нерестилищ в результате вынужденного прекращения водоподачи в придунайские озера Украины (Г.Ю. Толоконников) ЗАКЛЮЧЕНИЕ (Н.И. Рясинцева) ЛИТЕРАТУРА ПРИЛОЖЕНИЯ Source: Анна Георгиевна Петросян: biotest@ukr.net ІНТЕРНЕТ / ИНТЕРНЕТ / INTERNET Уважаемые коллеги! Может быть вас заинтересует следующая информация, которую я нашла в Сети. Может быть ее можно включить в Альговестник. Я подумала, а что если в АВ делать небольшие обзоры интернет-страниц по альгологии? Там попадается зачастую нужные и интересные вещи. 1. На сайте Американского фикологического общества есть раздел – The Phycological Newsletter, где представлены некоторые pdf версии этого журнала. http://www.psaalgae.org/pubs/newsletter.html 2. На сайте Университета Нью Джерси имеется раздел "The Euglenoid Project" http://bio.rutgers.edu/euglena/ Интересной частью этого проекта, помимо массы информации о эвгленовых водорослях, являются определительные ключи для родов эвгленовых водорослей и видов рода Euglena (свободный доступ, download). Ключи выполнены в виде приложения программы Lucid. Свободно распространяемую версию этой программы можно скачать на сайте http://www.lucidcentral.com/ ALGOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER (Kiev) № 17 APRIL 2 002 3. На сайте "The SilicaSecchiDisk" приводятся данные по исследованиям золотистых и диатомовых водорослей. Имеются микрофотографии, база данных по родам и видам (с возможностью поиска) и определительные ключи по Синуровым водорослям и роду Mallomonas. Ключи также выполнены в виде приложения программы Lucid. http://silicasecchidisk.conncoll.edu/LucidKeys/keys.html Хотелось бы обратить особое внимание на очень хорошее качество фотографий водорослей. Source: Анисимова Ольга Викторовна ВСЯЧЕСКИ ПРИВЕТСТВУЕСЯ личное распространение! Разошлите этот выпуск по Сети друзьям, знакомым и коллегам! Распечатайте его на принтере! Отнесите домой! Сделайте ксерокопии и подарите бескомпьютерным друзьям! Для того, чтобы регулярно получать наши выпуски, Ви должны отправить нам письмо электронной почтой по адресу levanets@mail.ru следующегосодержания: Фамилия, имя, отчество, E-mail адрес, Место работы, дожность, ученая степень и звание, Научные интересы, Служебный или контактный адрес, телефон/факс. Указать в разделе для комментария: ALGOLOG-registration. 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Патова Елена Николаевна: patova@ib.komisc.ru Кузяхметов Григорий Гильмиярович: KuzyakhmetovGG@bsu.bashedu.ru Шарипова Марина Юрьевна: SharipovaMY@ic.bashedu.ru Шкундина Фаина Борисовна: ShkundinaFB@bsu.bashedu.ru Алейникова Мария Даниловна (редакция журнала “Альгология”). Теренько Галина Викторовна: galla@paco.net Прибыловская Наталья Сергеевна: osozin@mail.grsu.grodno.by Комулайнен Сергей Федорович: komsf@krc.karelia.ru Дубовик Ирина Евгеньевна: DubovikIE@bsu.bashedu.ru Анисимова Ольга Викторовна: flora_oa@mail.ru Ляшенко Оксана Александровна: lyashenk@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru Болдина Ольга Николаевна: olgab1999@mail.ru; olgab@freemail.ru Хайбуллина Лилия Салаватовна: irekmdm@ufanet.ru Ситникова Юлия Алексеевна: felina@farlep.net Харитонов Вячеслав Гергиевич: sterba@online.magadan.su Бухтиярова Людмила Николаевна: bukhtiyarova@ukrpost.net Михайлова Татьяна Александровна: chaban@arh.ru Иванова Анна Петровна: a.p.ivanova@ibpc.ysn.ru Миничева Галина Григорьевна: minicheva@eurocom.od.ua Дятлов Сергей Евгеньевич: biotest@ukr.net Петросян Анна Георгиевна: Anna_Petrosyan@ukr.net Солоненко Анатолий Николаевич: station@melitopol.net (for A.N. Solonenko) Вознячук Ирина Петровна: ipv@biobel.bas-net.by Витенайте Тересе: terese@botanika.lt Шадрин Николай Васильевич: lib@ibss.iuf.net, shadrn@fossil.ukrcom.sebastopol.ua Козлова Дина Владимировна: kodv13@uic.nnov.ru, dinakozlova@rambler.ru Леман Наталья, Челомбицкая Мария: maria@bio.donetsk.ua