Browsing ARTICLES CIENTÍFICS by Author "Mann, David G."
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A Description of Biremis panamae sp. nov., a New Diatom Species from the Marine Littoral, with an Account of the Phylogenetic Position of Biremis D.G. Mann et E.J. Cox (Bacillariophyceae)
Witkowski, Andrzej; Barka, Frederik; Mann, David G.; Chunlian, Li; Weisenborn, Jascha L. F.; Ashworth, Matt P.; Kurzydłowski, Krzysztof J.; Zgłobicka, Izabela; Dobosz, Sławomir (PLoS ONE, 2014-12-10) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsHere we present a formal description of Biremis panamae Barka, Witkowski et Weisenborn sp. nov., which was isolated from the marine littoral environment of the Pacific Ocean coast of Panama. The description ... -
A polyphasic approach to the study of the genus Nitzschia (Bacillariophyta): three new planktonic species from the Adriatic Sea
Mucko, Maja; Bosak, Sunčica; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa; Wetzel, Carlos E.; Štefanić, Petra Peharec; Ljubešić, Zrinka (Journal of Phycology, 2020-10-21) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsThe paraphyletic diatom genus Nitzschia comprises over 1000 morphologically distinct pennate taxa, known from the benthos and plankton of freshwater, brackish and marine environments. The principal ... -
A rapid cleaning method for diatoms
Trobajo, Rosa; Mann, David G. (Diatom Research, 2019-07-18) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsWe describe here a protocol for cleaning diatoms when time is short and the amount of sample is very limited. Essentially, the method consists of drying material onto coverslips and cleaning it directly ... -
Annotated 18S and 28S rDNA reference sequences of taxa in the planktonic diatom family Chaetocerotaceae
Gaonkar, Chetan C.; Piredda, Roberta; Minucci, Carmen; Mann, David G.; Montresor, Marina; Sarno, Diana; Kooistra, Wiebe H. C. F. (PLOS ONE, 2018-12-26) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsThe species-rich diatom family Chaetocerotaceae is common in the coastal marine phytoplankton worldwide where it is responsible for a substantial part of the primary production. Despite its relevance ... -
Assessment of a novel microalgae-cork based technology for removing antibiotics, pesticides and nitrates from groundwater
Rambaldo, Lorenzo; Ávila, Héctor; Escolà Casas, Mònica; Guivernau, Miriam; Viñas, Marc; Trobajo, Rosa; Pérez-Burillo, Javier; Mann, David G.; Fernández, Belén; Biel, Carme; Rizzo, Luigi; Bayona, Josep M.; Matamoros, Víctor (Chemosphere, 2022-04-29) Aigües Marines i Continentals; Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes; Protecció Vegetal SostenibleGroundwater pollution has increased in recent years due to the intensification of agricultural and livestock activities. This results in a significant reduction in available freshwater resources. Here, ... -
Assessment of marine benthic diatom communities: insights from a combined morphological–metabarcoding approach in Mediterranean shallow coastal waters
Pérez-Burillo, Javier; Valoti, Greta; Witkowski, Andrezej; Prado, Patricia; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa (Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022-01-18) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsWe investigated the advantages and disadvantages of light microscope (LM)-based identifications and DNA metabarcoding, based on a 312-bp rbcL marker, for examining benthic diatom communities from ... -
Complete mitochondrial genome of a rare diatom (Bacillariophyta) Proschkinia and its phylogenetic and taxonomic implications
Gastineau, Romain; Kim, So-Yeon; Lemieux, Claude; Turmel, Monique; Witkowski, Andrzej; Park, Jong-Gyu; Kim, Byoung-Seok; Mann, David G.; Theriot, Edward C. (Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, 2018-11-25) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsWe obtained the complete mitogenome of Proschkinia sp. strain SZCZR1824, a strain belonging to a poorly known diatom genus with no previous molecular data. This genome is 48,863 bp long, with two group ... -
Connecting the morphological and molecular species concepts to facilitate species identification within the genus Fragilaria (Bacillariophyta)
Kahlert, Maria; Kelly, Martyn G.; Mann, David G.; Rimet, Frédéric; Sato, Shinya; Bouchez, Agnès; Keck, François (Journal of Phycology, 2019-05-20) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsThis paper explores the diversity and taxonomy of species within Fragilaria sensu stricto, an abundant and ecologically important diatom genus, taking advantage of cultured and DNA ‐barcoded material. ... -
Determining geographical range and alien status in diatoms: three instructive case histories of species newly recorded in the British Isles, including a non-native marine species from the Pacific, Diademoides luxuriosa
Mann, David G. (Diatom Research, 2022-08-16) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsThree benthic diatom species – Diademoides luxuriosa, Navicula entoleia and Nitzschia ocellata – have been discovered for the first time in Scottish coastal waters. All are highly distinctive but rarely ... -
Diat.barcode, an open-access curated barcode library for diatoms
Rimet, Frédéric; Gusev, Evgenuy; Kahlert, Maria; Kelly, Martyn G.; Kulikovskiy, Maxim; Maltsev, Yevhen; Mann, David G.; Pfannkuchen, Martin; Trobajo, Rosa; Vasselon, Valentin; Zimmermann, Jonas; Bouchez, Agnès (Scientific Reports, 2019-10-22) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsDiatoms (Bacillariophyta) are ubiquitous microalgae which produce a siliceous exoskeleton and which make a major contribution to the productivity of oceans and freshwaters. They display a huge diversity, ... -
Discovery of a kleptoplastic 'dinotom' dinoflagellate and the unique nuclear dynamics of converting kleptoplastids to permanent plastids
Yamada, Norico; Bolton, John J.; Trobajo, Rosa; Mann, David G.; Dąbek, Przemysław; Witkowski, Andrzej; Onuma, Ryo; Horiguchi, Takeo; Kroth, Peter G. (Scientific Reports, 2019-07-19) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsA monophyletic group of dinoflagellates, called ‘dinotoms’, are known to possess evolutionarily intermediate plastids derived from diatoms. The diatoms maintain their nuclei, mitochondria, and the ... -
DNA metabarcoding reveals differences in distribution patterns and ecological preferences among genetic variants within some key freshwater diatom species
Pérez-Burillo, Javier; Trobajo, Rosa; Leira, Manel; Keck, François; Rimet, Frédéric; Sigró, Javier; Mann, David G. (Science of The Total Environment, 2021-07-20) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsOur study evaluates differences in the distribution and ecology of genetic variants within several ecologically important diatom species that are also key for Water Framework Directive monitoring of ... -
Eileen J. Cox: her journey with diatoms
Jüttner, Ingrid; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa; Shubert, Elliot (Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2019-07-09) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsEileen already had a keen interest in science during her school years. She studied Botany at Bristol University from 1967–1970, and it was her University teacher, Professor Frank Round, who inspired her ... -
Evaluation and sensitivity analysis of diatom DNA metabarcoding for WFD bioassessment of Mediterranean rivers
Pérez-Burillo, Javier; Trobajo, Rosa; Vasselon, Valentin; Rimet, Frédéric; Bouchez, Agnès; Mann, David G. (Science of The Total Environment, 2020-04-04) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsOur study of 164 diatom samples from Catalonia (NE Spain) is the first to evaluate the applicability of DNA metabarcoding, based on high throughput sequencing (HTS) using a 312-bp rbcL marker, for ... -
Evaluation of two short overlapping rbcL markers for diatom metabarcoding of environmental samples: Effects on biomonitoring assessment and species resolution
Pérez-Burillo, Javier; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa (Chemosphere, 2022-08-08) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsTwo short diatom rbcL barcodes, 331-bp and 263-bp in length, have frequently been used in diatom metabarcoding studies. They overlap in a common 263-bp region but differ in the presence or absence of a ... -
Genome-enabled phylogenetic and functional reconstruction of an araphid pennate diatom Plagiostriata sp. CCMP470, previously assigned as a radial centric diatom, and its bacterial commensal
Sato, Shinya; Nanjappa, Deepak; Dorrell, Richard G.; Vieira, Fabio Rocha Jimenez; Kazamia, Elena; Tirichine, Leila; Veluchamy, Alaguraj; Heilig, Roland; Aury, Jean-Marc; Jaillon, Olivier; Wincker, Patrick; Fussy, Zoltan; Obornik, Miroslav; Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A.; Mann, David G.; Bowler, Chris; Zingone, Adriana (Scientific Reports, 2020-06-10) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsDiatoms are an ecologically fundamental and highly diverse group of algae, dominating marine primary production in both open-water and coastal communities. The diatoms include both centric species, which ... -
Homothallism, morphology and phylogenetic position of a new species of Sellaphora (Bacillariophyta), S. pausariae
Mann, David G.; Poulíčková, Aloisie (Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2019-07-09) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsBackground and aims – The eutrophic Blackford Pond in Edinburgh has already provided the holotypes of six other Sellaphora species. A further undescribed species is present and requires description and ... -
Inheritance of spheroid body and plastid in the raphid diatom Epithemia (Bacillariophyta) during sexual reproduction
Kamakura, Shiho; Mann, David G.; Nakamura, Noriaki; Sato, Shinya (Phycologia, 2021-04-21) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsDiatoms belonging to the family Epithemiaceae have endosymbiont ‘spheroid bodies’, which have received attention as a model to provide new insights into the early stages of organelle evolution. Uniparental ... -
Metadata standards and practical guidelines for specimen and DNA curation when building barcode reference libraries for aquatic life
Rimet, Frédéric; Aylagas, Eva; Borja, Angel; Bouchez, Agnès; Canino, Alexis; Chauvin, Christian; Chonova, Teofana; Ciampor Jr, Fedor; Costa, Filipe O.; Ferrari, Benoit J.D.; Gastineau, Romain; Goulon, Chloé; Gugger, Muriel; Holzmann, Maria; Jahn, Regine; Kahlert, Maria; Kusbert, Wolf-Henning; Laplace-Treyture, Christophe; Leese, Florian; Leliaert, Frederik; Mann, David G.; Marchand, Frédéric; Méléder, Vona; Pawlowski, Jan; Rasconi, Serena; Rivera, Sinziana; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Schweizer, Magali; Trobajo, Rosa; Vasselon, Valentin; Vivien, Régis; Weigand, Alexander; Witkowski, Andrzej; Zimmermann, Jonas; Ekrem, Torbjørn (Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG), 2021-02-26) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsDNA barcoding and metabarcoding is increasingly used to effectively and precisely assess and monitor biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. As these methods rely on data availability and quality of barcode ... -
Nitzschia fenestralis: A new diatom species abundant in the Holocene sediments of an eastern African crater lake
Grady, David; Mann, David G.; Trobajo, Rosa (Fottea, 2020-02-18) Aigües Marines i ContinentalsNitzschia is common in the phytoplankton of several East African lakes. A new species, Nitzschia fenestralis, sp. nov. D. Grady, D.G. Mann et Trobajo was encountered at numerous depths in a 16 m sediment ...