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Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) Based on a Morphological and Molecular Study of the Type Species, M ƒ. Phycol. 45, 678-691 (2009) © 2009 Phycological Society of America DOI: 10.1 lll/j.1529-8817.2009.00677.x CHARACTERIZATION OF MARTENSIA (DELESSERIACEAE, RHODOPHYTA) BASED ON A MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR STUDY OF THE TYPE SPECIES, M. ELEGANS, AND M. NATALENSIS SP. NOV. FROM SOUTH AFRICA1 Shoxue-Mei Lin2 Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung 20224, Taiwan, China Max H. Hommersand Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Nordi Carolina 27599-3280, USA Suza n ne Fredericq Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504-2451, LISA and Olivier De Clerck Phycology Research Group, Ghent University, Rrijgslaan 281/S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium An examination of a series of collections from Abbreviations: M., Martensia; rbcL, large subunit of the coast of Natal, South Africa, has revealed the the RUBISCO gene; subg., subgenus presence of two species ofMartensia C. Hering nom. cons:M. elegans C. Hering 1841, the type spe­ cies, and an undescribed species, M. natalensis sp. nov. The two are similar in gross morphology, with both having the network arranged in a single band, T he genus Martensia was established with a brief and with reproductive thalli ofM. elegans usually lar­ diagnosis by Hering (1841) based on plants col­ ger and more robust than those ofM. natalensis. lected by Dr. Ferdinand Rrauss on rocks at Port Molecular studies based on rbcL sequence analyses Natal (present-day Durban) in South Africa. Hering place the two in separate, strongly supported clades. (1844), published posthumously by Rrauss, contains The first assemblage occurs primarily in the Indo- a more detailed description and illustrations of West Pacific Ocean, and the second is widely distrib­ M. elegans, particularly of cystocarpic material. Hemi­ uted in tropical and warm-temperate waters. Criteria trema R. Brown ex Endlicher (1843) [type species: that have been used in the past for separating the H. krausii] was proposed based on material collected two, namely, the number and shape of the blades, by Rrauss. W. J. Hooker (1844) observed that the the presence of a single- versus a multiple-banded tetrasporangia were borne in both the longitudinal network, and blade margins entire or toothed, were lamellae of the network and also in the proximal determined to be unreliable. Although the examina­ membrane in the Rrauss material and concluded tion of additional species is required, the morphol­ that the tetrasporangia were comparable to those ogy and position of procarps and cystocarps, found in Nitophyllum. Harvey (1849), like Hooker, whether at or near the comers of the longitudinal had originally thought that M. elegans resembled lamellae and the cross-connecting strands or along Nitophyllum; however, upon observing that female the lobed, membranous edges of the longitudinal plants possessed ovate, osteolate cystocarps bearing lamellae or on the thallus margins, may prove to be pyriform carposporangia, he concluded that Marten­ diagnostic at the subgenus level. We recognize subg. sia belonged in the Rhodomeleae near the genus Martensia, including the type ofMartensia: M. elegans Claudea. and subg. Mesotrema (J. Agardh) De Toni based on J. Agardh (1854) recognized two genera, Martensia Martensia pavonia (J. Agardh) J. Agardh. C. H ering and a new genus Mesotrema (type species: Mesotrema pavonia J. Agardh) based on a Key index words: Delesseriaceae; Martensia; Mar­ collection from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. The tensia elegans; Martensia natalensis sp. nov.; two genera were separated on the grounds that the Rhodophyta; subgenusM artensia; subgenus Meso­ network consisted of a single zone in Martensia trema; systematics and several (two or more) zones separated by membranous regions in Mesotrema. J. Agardh (1863) revised his concept of Martensia, which he placed in his Ordo XVI. Rhodomeleae (=Rhodo- 1Received 17 June 2008. Accepted 21 November 2008. melaceae), Tribus 2. Pollexfenieae. He recognized A uthor for correspondence: e-mail liiiMnriiiloii.odii.lw. a single genus, Martensia C. Hering, containing two 678 CHARACTERIZATION OF MARTENSIA 679 divisions: (1) Hemitrema, in which die network USA). This procedure clears die material so diat it is possible forms a single band, and (2) Mesotrema, in which to focus dirough several layers of cells revealing the internal the network is multiple banded. Finally, J. Agardh structure (Hommersand and Fredericq 1997). Photomicro­ graphs were taken on an Olympus BX51 microscope with a (1885) established Ordo Martensiaceae to contain Q-imaging digital camera (Burnaby, BC, Canada), and habit Martensia, which he placed next to Ordo Rhodom­ views were reproduced widi an Epson scanner (Tokyo, eleae based on the structure of the cystocarp. The Japan). Herbarium abbreviations follow Holmgren et al. classification of Martensia was clarified by Schmitz (1990). and Hauptfleisch (1897), who placed the genus in Specimens dried in silica gel were extracted for DNA the Delesseriaceae. analysis. DNA samples were prepared using the DNeasy Plant De Toni (1936) argued that Martensia C. H ering Mini Kit (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA) following the instruc­ tions of the manufacturer. DNA-sequencing procedures are as (1841) is invalidated by Martensia Giseke 1792 and described in Lin et al. (2001b). New sequence data and those th at Hemitrema krausii R. Brown ex Endlicher 1843, available from GenBank were compiled and aligned widi being based on M. elegans C. H ering, is also invalid Sequencher (Gene Codes Corp., Ann Arbor, MI, USA) and and proposed Capraella as a substitute name for exported for phylogenetic analysis. Nine rbcL sequences were Martensia [Type species: C. elegans (Hering) De newly generated in this study from collections of Aí. elegans and Toni]. Later, Papenfuss (1942) pointed out that De Aí. natalensis sp. nov. from Natal, South Africa, and compared widi those of other rbcL sequences of Martensia and five other Toni (1936) had overlookedMesotrema J. Agardh members of die subfamily Nitophylloideae available from 1854, type species Mesotrema pavonia]. Agardh 1854, GenBank (see Table SI in die supplementary material). and he transferred all the recorded species to Meso­ Phylogenetic analyses were performed using parsimony heuris­ trema. Recognizing the confusion caused by all the tic searches (die maximum parsimony [MP]), and calculation name changes, Silva (1950) proposed Martensia C. of bootstrap proportion values (BP) were conducted as Hering for conservation, a proposal that has been described in Lin et al. (2001b). MP analysis and bootstrapping methods are available in die computer programs PAUP* v4.0 adopted. (Swofford 2002), widi 1,000 bootstrap replicates completed for The status of Martensia C. H ering 1841 is com ­ the MP analysis. plicated by the fact that two different species, both Heuristic maximum-likelihood (ML) searches and boot­ from the type locality, Kwazulu-Natal, go under the strap analyses (1,000 replicates) were run in PHYML (Guin- same name at present. One of these corresponds don and Gascuel 2003), using a GTR + I + Y model widi to M. elegans C. Hering, the type species of Martensia, parameters estimated by die program: base frequencies The other, M. natalensis sp. nov., could be related A = 0.324, C = 0.166, G = 0.207, T = 0.301; substitution rates A-C = 1.271, A-G = 4.417, A-T = 1.746, C7G = 0.997, C-T = to M. fragilis Harvey (1854) from Sri Lanka. Svede- 13.468, G-T = 1.0; proportion of invariable sites in the lius (1908) examined these two species of Martensia alignment is 0.000, and the shape parameter of die gamma in the most detailed investigation of network and distribution among site rate heterogeneity is 0.223. A reproductive development carried out so far. Our Bayesian analysis was performed in MrBayes 3.1.2 (Ronquist study reexamines the features of vegetative and and Huelsenbeck 2003) using a GTR + I + Y model, which reproductive morphology of Martensia in allowed for rate variation among different codon positions. Posterior probabilities were estimated using a Metropolis- comparison with the observations of Svedelius and coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo approach widi sampling our previous studies of Martensia formosana Lin, according to the Metropolis-Hastings algo ri dim. The analysis Hommersand et Fredericq and M. lewisiae S.-M. used four chains, one cold and diree incrementally heated. Lin, Hommersand et Fredericq from Taiwan (Lin Each run consisted of 2 x IO6 generations and was sampled et al. 2004a). Phylogenetic and taxonomic conclu­ every 1,000th generation. Burn-in values were set at 500,000 sions are drawn from morphological observations generations. and from rbcL sequence analyses of a range of Martensia species. RESULTS Morphological observations.Martensia elegans H ering MATERIALS AND METHODS 1841:92 (Figs. 1-5). Specimens were collected intertidally from pools or subti- Synonyms: Hemitrema kraussii R. Brown ex E ndli­ dally by snorkeling or SCUBA diving. Samples used in cher 1843, Capraella, elegans (Harvey) J. De Toni morphological studies were preserved in 5% formalin/seawater or pressed on herbarium sheets. Voucher specimens were f.1936; Mesotrema elegans (C. Hering) Papenfuss deposited in die herbaria of die University of North Carolina 1942. at Chapel Hill (NCU); the Herbarium in Ghent, Belgium Lectotype'. A cystocarpic plant at BM in the lower (GENT); and the National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan left-hand comer (Fig. la) on a paper cutout con­ (NTOU). Hand sections were stained with 1% aniline blue taining six plants carrying the number N. 272 acidified widi 1% HC1 and mounted in 25%-30% Karo® (lower right, barcode BM 000774894) on a herbar­ syrup (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA) or were treated widi ium sheet containing a collection referred to by Wittmann’s aceto-iron-hematoxylin-chloral hydrate (Witt- mann 1965) and mounted in 50% Hoyer’s mounting Hering (1841, p. 92) “as the number prefixed to medium (Lin et al. 2001a). After 1-2 h, die whole-mount this species in Dr.
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