Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada
Diatom cultures can help answer taxonomic, biogeographic and ecological questions on a local and global scale. Unialgal cultures are derived from a single cell and provide abundant material for morphological and molecular analyses. The link between the historic morphological species concept and the...
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Diatom cultures can help answer taxonomic, biogeographic and ecological questions on a local and global scale. Unialgal cultures are derived from a single cell and provide abundant material for morphological and molecular analyses. The link between the historic morphological species concept and the molecular data is becoming increasingly important with the use of eDNA metabarcoding. Additionally, cultures provide insights into the life cycle of diatoms and thereby complement taxonomy and species ecology. In this study, we present an approach to extract benthic diatoms from an environmental sample to generate unialgal cultures. We explored diatom diversity in preserved assemblages and by culturing as many different taxa as possible from benthic freshwater samples taken on the same day from the Bow River in Calgary, Canada. With both methods we found a total of 221 different benthic diatom taxa, of which 182 were identified in the preserved diatom assemblages. Interestingly, an additional 39 taxa only appeared in the cultures. In total 129 strains were cultivated representing 71 different taxa. This study includes pictures of living cells demonstrating the additional merits of unialgal cultures, as they provide information on plastid details, auxospores and endosymbionts. Both, the identification of the diatom assemblages and the generation and identification of strains provide the foundation for additional water quality assessment tools, taxonomic insights and molecular references libraries.
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| spelling | doaj.art-df4392160ac643b4bdf8a6b616ee534e2022-12-22T03:45:58ZengPAGEPress PublicationsJournal of Limnology1129-57671723-86332022-12-0181110.4081/jlimnol.2022.2095Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, CanadaOliver Skibbe0Nelida Abarca1Francine Forrest2Petra Werner3Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität BerlinBotanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität BerlinRed Deer River Watershed Alliance, Red Deer, AlbertaDiatoms as Bioindicators, Berlin Diatom cultures can help answer taxonomic, biogeographic and ecological questions on a local and global scale. Unialgal cultures are derived from a single cell and provide abundant material for morphological and molecular analyses. The link between the historic morphological species concept and the molecular data is becoming increasingly important with the use of eDNA metabarcoding. Additionally, cultures provide insights into the life cycle of diatoms and thereby complement taxonomy and species ecology. In this study, we present an approach to extract benthic diatoms from an environmental sample to generate unialgal cultures. We explored diatom diversity in preserved assemblages and by culturing as many different taxa as possible from benthic freshwater samples taken on the same day from the Bow River in Calgary, Canada. With both methods we found a total of 221 different benthic diatom taxa, of which 182 were identified in the preserved diatom assemblages. Interestingly, an additional 39 taxa only appeared in the cultures. In total 129 strains were cultivated representing 71 different taxa. This study includes pictures of living cells demonstrating the additional merits of unialgal cultures, as they provide information on plastid details, auxospores and endosymbionts. Both, the identification of the diatom assemblages and the generation and identification of strains provide the foundation for additional water quality assessment tools, taxonomic insights and molecular references libraries. https://jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/2095benthic diatomsBow Riverdiatom plastidslive observationssingle-cell isolationunialgal cultures |
| spellingShingle | Oliver Skibbe Nelida Abarca Francine Forrest Petra Werner Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada Journal of Limnology benthic diatoms Bow River diatom plastids live observations single-cell isolation unialgal cultures |
| title | Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada |
| title_full | Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada |
| title_fullStr | Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada |
| title_short | Exploring diatom diversity through cultures - a case study from the Bow River, Canada |
| title_sort | exploring diatom diversity through cultures a case study from the bow river canada |
| topic | benthic diatoms Bow River diatom plastids live observations single-cell isolation unialgal cultures |
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