Thomas Sauvage

The taxonomic position of Halymenia floridana is a long-standing issue that needed to be assessed using DNA sequences of material from the type locality (Florida, USA). Here, we examined the vegetative and reproductive morphoanatomy, and rbcL sequence data of topotypes and additional specimens from Brazil. Our results resolved the topotypes of ‘H....

Proposal of Cryptonemia floridana comb. nov. (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) based on rbcL gene analysis of collections from type locality and female reproductive morphology Abstract: The taxonomic position of Halymenia floridana is a long-standing issue that needed to be assessed using DNA sequences of material from the type locality (Florida, USA). H...

The circumtropical, multinucleate, siphonous, green algal genus Caulerpa is the single genus in the family Caulerpaceae and exhibits a remarkably high morphological variability. Morphological plasticity, overlapping morphological species boundaries, and the occurrence of cryptic species, has led several scientists to advocate the use of DNA barcode...

Updated version of Table S1 in Draisma & Sauvage (2024): Jeju Journal of Islands Sciences 1: 1-11. https://www.jjis.or.kr/articles/xml/VxXM/

Updated version of the fasta file published in Draisma & Sauvage (2024): Jeju Journal of Islands Sciences 1: 1-11. https://www.jjis.or.kr/articles/xml/VxXM/

Background Oxford nanopore Technologies (ONT) provides three main library preparation strategies to sequence bacterial genomes. These include tagmentation (TAG), ligation (LIG) and amplification (PCR). Despite ONT’s recommendations, making an informed decision for preparation choice remains difficult without a side-by-side comparison. Here, we sequ...

Elasmobranchs are threatened and eDNA metabarcoding is a powerful tool that can help efforts to better understand and conserve them. Nevertheless, the inter‐calibration between optimal methodological practices and its implementation in resource‐limited situations is still an issue. Based on promising results from recent studies, the authors applied...

The green macroalga Caulerpa ashmeadii was recently found in the North-eastern Atlantic Ocean, on the southern coast of Porto Santo Island (Madeira archipelago). Caulerpa ashmeadii was detected in a subtidal soft-bottom forming scattered patches, mostly among the green calcareous macroalgae Halimeda incrassata and Penicillus capitatus, within a dep...

Human impacts have been eroding marine ecosystems in such a way that biodiversity patterns are changing. Therefore, policies and science-based solutions are indispensable for monitoring threats to the most impacted species. In such effort, the analysis of elasmobranchs' environmental traces via eDNA metabarcoding represent a candidate tool for effe...

Phymatolithon Foslie is one of the most studied and ecologically important genera of crustose coralline algae (CCA) due to their dominant abundance in various marine ecosystems worldwide. The taxonomy of the genus is complex and has been revised and updated many times based on morphological and molecular analyses. We report on a crustose coralline...

In the past, non-geniculate coralline algae in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico have been identified based primarily on comparative morpho-anatomy. Recent studies employing DNA sequencing techniques combined with morpho-anatomical studies using SEM have revealed a wealth of previously undocumented diversity of rhodolith-forming non-geniculate corall...

Dysidazirine carboxylic acid (1) was isolated from the lipophilic extract of a collection of the benthic marine cyanobacterium Caldora sp. from reefs near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The planar structure of this new compound was determined by spectroscopic methods and comparisons between HRMS and NMR data with its reported methyl ester. The absolute...

Our ongoing efforts to explore the chemical space associated with marine cyanobacteria from coral reefs of Guam have yielded two new members of the anaenamide family of natural products, anaenamides C (3) and D (4). These compounds were isolated from a novel Hormoscilla sp. (VPG16-58). Our phylogenetic profiling (16S rDNA) of this cyanobacterium in...

Non‐geniculate coralline algae are difficult to identify based solely on morpho‐anatomy. To address the systematics of several taxonomically challenging taxa, we analyzed DNA sequences of a short portion (118‐296 base pairs) of the 3’ end of the rbcL gene from three type specimens. The analyses revealed that Harveylithon munitum (basionym: Lithophy...

Routine DNA barcoding with the chloroplast gene tufA identified novel records of an unknown and denuded (i.e. lacking branchlets) Caulerpa species previously reported from the Florida Middle Grounds. tufA barcoding not only confirmed the matching molecular identity of this taxon with several newly collected denuded specimens from shallow habitats o...

A new, cyclic carbonate eudesmane-type sesquiterpene, eudesmacarbonate (1), was isolated from marine filamentous cyanobacterial mats associated with apparent ingestion-related intoxications of captive bottlenose dolphins in the Florida Keys. Sequencing of 16S rDNA revealed that mats were composed of closely related Oscillatoriacean species includin...

In 2011, the Indian River Lagoon, a biodiverse estuary in eastern Florida (USA), experienced an intense microalgal bloom with disastrous ecological consequences. The bloom included a mix of microalgae with unresolved taxonomy and lasted for 7 months with a maximum concentration of 130 μg chlorophyll a L−1. In 2012, brown tide Aureoumbra lagunensis...

Endolithic, red unicells residing in the interior of Lithothamnion rhodoliths, collected offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico in mesophotic rhodolith beds at ∼54–55 m depth and maintained in closed microcosms, were used to establish cultures following their isolation. These endolithic unicells subsequently developed into amorphous blobs of palmelloid cel...

The gelatinous, calciferous red alga Renouxia antillana was described in 1995 based on material from Guadeloupe, French West Indies, and accommodated in a new family and order (Rhodogorgonaceae, Rhodogorgonales) along with the genus Rhodogorgon from Belize and Caribbean Panama. For more than 20 years, Renouxia has remained monotypic, with rare repo...

Background: The MinION Access Program (MAP, 2014-2016) allowed selected users to test the prospects of long nanopore reads for diverse organisms and applications through the rapid development of improving chemistries. In 2014, faced with a fragmented Illumina assembly for the chloroplast genome of the green algal holobiont Caulerpa ashmeadii, we a...

Udotea geppiorum is reported to form meadows in deep-water, soft sediment habitats in the Main Hawaiian Islands. The identification of the species, initially published as U. argentea in the archipelago, is revised and confirmed based on morphological assessment and comparative DNA sequencing with western Pacific specimens. Udotea geppiorum is fully...

Rhodoliths are the main hard substrata for the attachment of benthic macroalgae in the NW Gulf of Mexico rubble habitats that are associated with salt domes, unique deep bank habitats at ~50–90 m depth on the continental shelf offshore Louisiana and Texas. With the advent of additional sequencing technologies, methodologies for biodiversity assessm...

Objective: The body of DNA sequence data lacking taxonomically informative sequence headers is rapidly growing in user and public databases (e.g. sequences lacking identification and contaminants). In the context of systematics studies, sorting such sequence data for taxonomic curation and/or molecular diversity characterization (e.g. crypticism)...

Three related new alkylphenols, termed anaephenes A-C (1-3), containing different side chains, were isolated from an undescribed filamentous cyanobacterium (VPG 16-59) collected in Guam. Our 16S rDNA sequencing efforts indicated that VPG 16-59 is a member of the marine genus Hormoscilla (Oscillatoriales). The structures of anaephenes A-C (1-3) were...

A second species in the siphonous green algal genus Avrainvillea was recently discovered off the island of O‘ahu in the Main Hawaiian Islands. Specimens were collected from Honolulu Harbor, including its entrance channel, and near Ke‘ehi Harbor. These locations are both in Mālama Bay on O‘ahu’s south shore in or adjacent to urbanized estuaries, res...

Avrainvillea sp. records and site information for the 2014 seagrass survey in Honolulu Harbor.

Morphological characters used to identify the new Avrainvillea specimens and comparison with related species.

Specimen and sequence information for those used in both morphological and molecular assessment.

When placed in marine laboratory microcosm tanks, Syringoderma floridana (Syringodermataceae, Syringodermatales) described from Atlantic Florida, grew from the surface of bare rhodoliths collected from 55 to 85 m depth in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A partial nuclear 28S large subunit rDNA sequenc...

The tropical alga previously recognized as Gibsmithia hawaiiensis (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) was recently suggested to represent a complex of species distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific Ocean and characterized by a peculiar combination of hairy (pilose) gelatinous lobes growing on cartilaginous stalks. Phylogenetic reconstructions based on thre...

Interspecific systematics in the red algal order Sporolithales remains problematic. To re-evaluate its species, DNA analyses were performed on historical type material and recently collected specimens assigned to the two genera Sporolithon and Heydrichia. Partial rbcL sequences from the lectotype specimens of Sporolithon ptychoides (the generitype...

Rhodoliths are benthic calcium carbonate nodules accreted by crustose coralline red algae which recently have been identified as useful indicators of biomineral changes resulting from global climate change and ocean acidification. This study highlights the discovery that the interior of rhodoliths are marine biodiversity hotspots that function as s...

In the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (NWGMx), subtidal rhodolith beds offshore Louisiana at 45–80 m depth harbor a diverse community of uncharacterized non-geniculate coralline algae including both biogenic and autogenic rhodoliths and other encrusting taxa. Identifying specimens to their correct genus and species is an ongoing process because many a...

Gibsmithia hawaiiensis is a peculiar red alga characterized by furry gelatinous lobes arising from a cartilaginous stalk. The species has been recorded from tropical reef systems throughout the Indo-Pacific. A multilocus phylogeny (UPA, rbcL, COI-5P) of 36 specimens collected throughout the species distribution range, showed high genetic diversity...

Background In spite of their ecological importance as primary producers and microbioeroders of marine calcium carbonate (CaCO3) substrata, endolithic phototrophs spanning both prokaryotic (the cyanobacteria) and eukaryotic algae lack established molecular resources for their facilitated survey with high throughput sequencing. Here, the development...

The diversity of seaweeds and decapod crustaceans associated with rhodoliths on deep offshore banks in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico decreased dramatically after the Macondo blowout. Decapod crustacean communities declined in both abundance and diversity and exhibited major shifts in species dominance. Rhodoliths appear to serve as seedbanks for...

The siphonous green algal family Caulerpaceae includes the monotypic genus Caulerpella and the species-rich genus Caulerpa. A molecular phylogeny was inferred from chloroplast tufA and rbcL DNA sequences analyzed together with a five marker data set of non-caulerpacean siphonous green algae. Six Caulerpaceae lineages were revealed, but relationship...

Morphological and molecular evidence is provided to further document the status of the enigmatic taxon known as Caulerpa floridana W.R. Taylor from White Shoal, Dry Tortugas, Florida. DNA sequencing of three historical herbarium specimens (WRT329, WRT345 and WRT349) housed at the University of Michigan Herbarium (MICH) demonstrated the molecular se...

In the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, beds of rhodoliths and unconsolidated rubble at 55-70 m depth are associated with unique offshore deep bank habitats known as salt domes or diapirs. Prior to the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill these harbored the highest known seaweed diversity in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Six post-spill cruises led offsho...

The generic concepts of the crustose family Peyssonneliaceae will be critically assessed in a revised worldwide phylogeny of the family on the basis of phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast-encoded rbcL and tufA, chloroplast 23S UPA and mitochondrial cox1 sequences derived from 336 samples worldwide representing 172 species and twelve genera. Type o...

Molecular characterization (plastid-encoded tufA gene) of New Caledonian members of the Caulerpa racemosa–Caulerpa peltata complex identified five lineages, each possibly harboring multiple species-level entities. On a global scale, the complex encompassed six lineages, two of which were pantropical and the remainder seemingly were restricted to th...

An extensive study of the secondary metabolites produced by a new Sticta sp. of lichen has led to the isolation of three new compounds containing the 4-amino-3-hydroxy-5-phenylpentanoic acid residue (Ahppa). The structures of stictamides A-C (1-3) were assigned by 2D NMR spectroscopic and chemical methods. Due to extensive epimerization of the Ahpp...

The Hawaiian red algal flora is diverse, isolated, and well studied from a morphological and anatomical perspective, making it an excellent candidate for assessment using a combination of traditional taxonomic and molecular approaches. Acquiring and making these biodiversity data freely available in a timely manner ensures that other researchers ca...

List of collection locations. Collection locations for samples surveyed as part of the Hawaiian Rhodophyta Biodiversity Project. Islands are listed in alphabetical order. Geographical coordinates are listed in decimal degrees.

Taxonomic checklist and new records. Taxonomic checklist and new records from the Hawaiian Rhodophyta Biodiversity Project. Taxon records are arranged by order. New taxon and island records are indicated in bold.

Sequence accessions. Hawaiian Algal Database accession numbers for all sequences analyzed as part of the Hawaiian Rhodophyta Biodiversity Survey. Accessions are given as superscripts for each of the three markers (N = nuclear LSU, M = mitochondrial COI, P = plastid UPA).

A total of 290 florideophyte samples from the Hawaiian Rhodophyta Biodiversity Survey, spanning 17 orders of red algae, were sequenced for the mitochondrial COI DNA barcode, partial nuclear LSU rRNA gene, and plastid UPA rRNA marker. COI was A-T rich (> 60% overall) in comparison to the two rRNA markers, and was also the least conserved, with the t...

Organization and presentation of biodiversity data is greatly facilitated by databases that are specially designed to allow easy data entry and organized data display. Such databases also have the capacity to serve as Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). The Hawaiian Algal Database was designed to showcase specimens collected from the...

The genus Pseudochlorodesmis (Bryopsidales) is composed of diminutive siphons of extreme morphological simplicity. The discovery of Pseudochlorodesmis-like juveniles in more complex Bryopsidales (e.g., the Halimeda microthallus stage) jeopardized the recognition of this genus. Confronted with this uncertainty, taxonomists transferred many simple si...

The siphonous green algae are an assemblage of seaweeds that consist of a single giant cell. They comprise two sister orders, the Bryopsidales and Dasycladales. We infer the phylogenetic relationships among the siphonous green algae based on a five-locus data matrix and analyze temporal aspects of their diversification using relaxed molecular clock...

The red alga Gracilaria salicornia (C. Agardh) E. Y. Dawson was introduced intentionally to two reefs on O'ahu, Hawai'i, in the 1970s for experimental aquaculture for the agar industry. Some 30 yr later, this species has spread from the initial sites of introduction and is now competing with native marine flora and fauna. The goals of this study we...