Table 1

Chlorophyte species used for this investigation.

Clade
Species
Strain
GenBank

'Sphaeroplea '
Ankyra judayi (G.M. Smith) Fott 1957
SAG 17.84
EU352800

Atractomorpha porcata Hoffman 1984 strain
SAG 71.90
EU352803

Sphaeroplea annulina (Roth) C. Agardh 1824
SAG 377.1a
EU352801

Sphaeroplea annulina (Roth) C. Agardh 1824
SAG 377.1e
EU352802

'Dunaliella'
Haematococcus droebakensis Wollenweber 1908
-
U66981

Dunaliella parva Lerche 1937
-
DQ116746

Dunaliella salina (Dunal) Teodoresco 1905
CCAP 19/18
EF473746

'Hydrodictyon '
Hydrodictyon africanum Yamanouchi 1913
UTEX 782
AY779861

Hydrodictyon patenaeforme Pocock
CCAP 236/3
AY577736

Hydrodictyon reticulatum (Linnaeus) B. de St.-Vincent 1824
CBS
AY779862

Pediastrum braunii Wartmann 1862
SAG 43.85
AY577756

Pediastrum duplex Meyen 1829
UTEX 1364
AY779868

Pseudopediastrum boryanum (Raciborski) Sulek 1969
UTEX 470
AY779866

Sorastrum spinulosum Nägeli 1849
UTEX 2452
AY779872

Stauridium tetras (Ehrenberg) Ralfs 1844
EL 0207 CT
AY577762

'Oedogonium'
Bulbochaete hiloensis (Nordstedt) Tiffany 1937
-
AY962677

Oedogonium cardiacum (Hassall) Wittrock 1870
-
AY962675

Oedogonium nodulosum Wittrock 1872
-
DQ078301

Oedogonium oblongum Wittrock 1872
-
AY962681

Oedogonium undulatum (Brébisson) A. Braun 1854
-
DQ178025

'Reinhardtii'
Chlamydomonas incerta Pascher 1927
SAG 81.72
AJ749625

Chlamydomonas komma Skuja 1934
-
U66951

Chlamydomonas petasus Ettl
SAG 11.45
AJ749615

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Dangeard 1888
CC-620
AJ749638

Chlamydomonas typica Deason & Bold 1960
SAG 61.72
AJ749622

Eudorina elegans Ehrenberg 1831
ASW 107
AF486524

Eudorina unicocca G.M. Smith 1930
UTEX 1215
AF486525

Gonium octonarium Pocock 1955
Tex
AF054424

Gonium pectorale O.F. Müller 1773
Chile K
AF054440

Gonium quadratum E. G. Pringsheim ex H. Nozaki
Cal 3-3
AF182430

Pandorina morum (O.F. Müller) Bory de Saint-Vincent 1824
Chile
AF376737

Volvox dissipatrix (Shaw) Printz
-
U67020

Volvox rousseletii G.S.West
-
U67025

Volvulina steinii Playfair 1915
-
U67034

Yamagishiella unicocca (Rayburn & Starr) Nozaki 1992
ASW 05129
AF098181

'Scenedesmus'
Desmodesmus abundans (Kirchner) Hegewald 2000
UTEX 1358
AJ400494

Desmodesmus bicellularis (Chodat) An, Friedl & Heg. 1999
CCAP 276/14
AJ400498

Desmodesmus communis (Hegewald) Hegewald 2000
UTEX 76
AM410660

Desmodesmus elegans (Hortobágyi) Heg. & Van. 2007
Heg 1976–28
AM228908

Desmodesmus opoliensis (P.G. Richter) Hegewald 2000
EH 10
AM410655

Desmodesmus pleiomorphus (Hindák) Hegewald 2000
UTEX 1591
AM410659

Desmodesmus quadricauda (Turpin) Hegewald
-
AJ400495

Scenedesmus acuminatus (Lagerheim) Chodat 1902
UTEX 415
AJ249511

Scenedesmus acutiformis (B. Schröder) F. Hindák 1990
SAG 276.12
AJ237953

Scenedesmus basiliensis Chodat 1926
UTEX 79
AJ400489

Scenedesmus dimorphus (Turpin) Kützing 1833
UTEX 417
AJ400488

Scenedesmus longus Meyen 1829 ex Ralfs
NIOO-MV5
AJ400506

Scenedesmus obliquus (Turpin) Kützing 1833
Tow 9/21P-1W
DQ417568

Scenedesmus pectinatus Meyen 1828
An 111a
AJ237954

Scenedesmus platydiscus (G.M. Smith) Chodat 1926
UTEX 2457
AJ400491

Scenedesmus raciborskii Woloszynska 1914
An 1996–5
AJ237952

Scenedesmus regularis Svirenko
Heg 1998–2
AY170857

Scenedesmus wisconsinensis (G.M. Smith) Chodat 1996
An 41
AJ237950

Listed is the current clade classification of the species [69,70,24] and the GenBank accession numbers of the analyzed sequences. The four newly obtained sequences are of the 'Sphaeroplea' clade.

Keller et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008 8:218   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-218