Dynamics of Algae in Sundarbans and their Implications as Climate Change Proxies

Sarkar, Neera Sen; Sekh, Sanoyaz

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“…Pithophora and Spirogyra are two common filamentous green algae found in tropical and temperate regions throughout the world including Bangladesh (Satpati and Pal, 2016). They are abundant in a wide range of freshwater habitats like small stagnant water bodies to running waters as they grow rapidly in eutrophic water and produce slimy green masses (Sarkar and Sekh, 2019). Pithophora is a genus of the order Cladophorales under the family of Pithophoraceae; and Spirogyra is a genus of filamentous green algae in the order Zygnematales under the family of Zygnemataceae (Moura-Júnior et al, 2016;Volkova et al, 2018).…”

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Molecular characterization and new reports of two green algae from Bangladesh

Alfasane¹,

Chowdhury²,

Mehnaz³

2019

Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon

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This communication portrays the molecular characterization and confirms the new reports of two fresh water green algae namely, Pithophora polymorpha Wittrock and Spirogyra maxima (Hassall) Wittrock from Bangladesh. The samples of these algal species were cultured and partial 18S rDNA was sequenced and analysed for their molecular identification. It was found that the primers reported here could sufficiently identify these algae as P. polymorpha and S. maxima. Furthermore, the Neighbour joining (NJ) tree generated from 18s rDNA sequences suggested that Spirogyra maxima of Bangladesh is distantly related to the cluster of S. juergensii and S. platensis. Pithophora polymorpha along with P. roettleri, P. sano and Pithophora sp. seems to form a strongly supported monophyletic group. The alga AP1 clusters with Pithophora and the alga AS1 clusters with Spirogyra. This study is the first-time report of molecular identification of Bangladeshi algae and a landmark towards the future exploration of thealgal biodiversity of Bangladesh.

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