PHYLOGENY OF <i>CHLAMYDOMONAS</i> (CHLOROPHYTA) BASED ON CLADISTIC ANALYSIS OF NUCLEAR 18S rRNA SEQUENCE DATA<sup>1</sup>

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>The genus <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> Ehrenberg may contain as many as 450 described species. Morphological, physiological and molecular data show that variation among some <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> species can he great, leading to speculation that multiple, generic‐level lineages exist within this genus. The most recent systematic studies of <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> have led to proposals of nine distinct morphological and 15 distinct sporangial autolysin groups. Partial sequences from the nuclear small subunit rRNAs from 14 <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> species representing 12 autolysin and four morphological groups, and from three flagellates thought to he related to <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> were determined in a phylogenetic study of relationships among these algae. Sequence comparisons among some <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> species revealed differences comparable to the sequence divergence between soybeans and cycads. Cladistic analysis of the sequence data suggests that multiple lineages exist among species of <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas.</jats:italic> Some of these lineages represent alliances of both <jats:italic>Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> and non<jats:italic>‐Chlamydomonas</jats:italic> taxa; thus, the current taxonomy does not reflect natural, or monophyletic, groups. Collectively, these lineages may represent distinct families or even orders.</jats:p>

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