TY  - JOUR
AU  - Trbojević, Ivana
AU  - Marković, Aleksandra
AU  - Blaženčić, Jelena
AU  - Subakov Simić, Gordana
AU  - Nowak, Petra
AU  - Ballot, Andreas
AU  - Schneider, Susanne
PY  - 2020
UR  - https://cer.ihtm.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3865
AB  - Charophyte species delineation is regularly based on a set of thallus morphological character- istics, but considering pronounced phenotypic plasticity, difficulties and doubts commonly occur in Chara species determination. DNA barcoding may contribute to solving these chal- lenges. Here we characterize Chara contraria with an unusual set of morphological character- istics, and specimens morphologically resembling Chara connivens collected in Serbia, by describing their morphological traits and analysing matK barcoding results. Our results indi- cated that dioecious Chara specimens, tentatively determined as Chara “connivens” based on morphological traits, were genetically more closely related to C. globularis. These Chara
“connivens” specimens formed a sister group to a monophyletic C. globularis cluster, suggesting that it may be neither C. connivens nor C. globularis. We strongly encourage further barcoding of C. “connivens” samples from freshwater, in order to find out if there are consistent genetic differences between the dioecious freshwater C. “connivens” and monoecious C. globularis. Barcoding of matK placed the monoecious Chara specimens, which based on morphological characteristics initially were determined as C. virgata, into the C. contraria group. This indicates that the microscopic traits which commonly are used for Chara species determination some- times are misleading. In general, our study challenges the commonly used phenetic species concept in Charophyte taxonomy and illustrates the importance of molecular approaches to evaluate the validity of morphological characteristics of the plant thallus in species delineation.
PB  - Taylor & Francis
T2  - Botany Letters
T1  - Genetic and morphological variation in Chara contraria and a taxon morphologically resembling Chara connivens
VL  - 167
IS  - 2
SP  - 187
EP  - 200
DO  - 10.1080/23818107.2019.1703808
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Trbojević, Ivana and Marković, Aleksandra and Blaženčić, Jelena and Subakov Simić, Gordana and Nowak, Petra and Ballot, Andreas and Schneider, Susanne",
year = "2020",
abstract = "Charophyte species delineation is regularly based on a set of thallus morphological character- istics, but considering pronounced phenotypic plasticity, difficulties and doubts commonly occur in Chara species determination. DNA barcoding may contribute to solving these chal- lenges. Here we characterize Chara contraria with an unusual set of morphological character- istics, and specimens morphologically resembling Chara connivens collected in Serbia, by describing their morphological traits and analysing matK barcoding results. Our results indi- cated that dioecious Chara specimens, tentatively determined as Chara “connivens” based on morphological traits, were genetically more closely related to C. globularis. These Chara
“connivens” specimens formed a sister group to a monophyletic C. globularis cluster, suggesting that it may be neither C. connivens nor C. globularis. We strongly encourage further barcoding of C. “connivens” samples from freshwater, in order to find out if there are consistent genetic differences between the dioecious freshwater C. “connivens” and monoecious C. globularis. Barcoding of matK placed the monoecious Chara specimens, which based on morphological characteristics initially were determined as C. virgata, into the C. contraria group. This indicates that the microscopic traits which commonly are used for Chara species determination some- times are misleading. In general, our study challenges the commonly used phenetic species concept in Charophyte taxonomy and illustrates the importance of molecular approaches to evaluate the validity of morphological characteristics of the plant thallus in species delineation.",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
journal = "Botany Letters",
title = "Genetic and morphological variation in Chara contraria and a taxon morphologically resembling Chara connivens",
volume = "167",
number = "2",
pages = "187-200",
doi = "10.1080/23818107.2019.1703808"
}

Trbojević, I., Marković, A., Blaženčić, J., Subakov Simić, G., Nowak, P., Ballot, A.,& Schneider, S.. (2020). Genetic and morphological variation in Chara contraria and a taxon morphologically resembling Chara connivens. in Botany Letters
Taylor & Francis., 167(2), 187-200.
https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2019.1703808

Trbojević I, Marković A, Blaženčić J, Subakov Simić G, Nowak P, Ballot A, Schneider S. Genetic and morphological variation in Chara contraria and a taxon morphologically resembling Chara connivens. in Botany Letters. 2020;167(2):187-200.
doi:10.1080/23818107.2019.1703808 .

Trbojević, Ivana, Marković, Aleksandra, Blaženčić, Jelena, Subakov Simić, Gordana, Nowak, Petra, Ballot, Andreas, Schneider, Susanne, "Genetic and morphological variation in Chara contraria and a taxon morphologically resembling Chara connivens" in Botany Letters, 167, no. 2 (2020):187-200,
https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2019.1703808 . .