Open AccessFirst Molecular Record and Distribution of Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy from the Southern Black Sea
Author(s) -
Fatih Gümüş,
Arif Gönülol
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
turkish journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.343
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2149-181X
pISSN - 1303-2712
DOI - 10.4194/1303-2712-v21_10_04
Subject(s) - biology , phylogenetic tree , intraspecific competition , genus , genbank , molecular phylogenetics , dna barcoding , interspecific competition , clade , cytochrome c oxidase subunit i , zoology , ecology , gene , genetics
Padina is a brown algal genus widely distributed in warm-temperate and tropical regions. Species-level identification of specimens is often difficult due to intraspecific and interspecific morphological plasticity. This study reveals the results of the phylogenetic relationships of specimens, by analyzing the cytochrome oxidase subunit 3 (Cox3) and RuBisCO large subunit (rbcL) gene sequences. A total of 144 new sequences were analyzed together with other Padina sequences obtained from GenBank. Phylogenetic inference identified one well-resolved clade. All of these analyses showed that this genus has only one species in the Black Sea. This is the first study on the molecular diagnosis of macroalgae in the Black Sea, and it contains the first molecular records of Padina in the Black Sea Region.