Biology:Anabaena azollae

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Anabaena azollae
Scientific classification edit
Missing taxonomy template (fix): Trichormus
Species:
Binomial name
Template:Taxonomy/TrichormusTrichormus azollae
(Strasburger 1884) Komarek and Anagnostidis 1989
Synonyms
  • Anabaena azollae Strasburger, 1884
  • Nostoc azollae Strasburger, 1873 nom.inval.

Trichormus azollae a species of filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium that is involved in symbiosis with various plants in the genus Azolla such as Azolla filiculoides.[1]

In terms of 16S RNA, the strain found in A. filiculoides is very close to Anabaena oscillarioides with 99.3% identity.[2] The many "Azolla cyanobiont" 16S sequences as recorded on NCBI GenBank do not neatly form a cluster that excludes other named cyanobacterial species; high-identity (> 98.7%) matches include Anabaena azotica and Wollea saccata.

The genome of a strain known as 0708, isolated from A. filiculoides, has been sequenced.[3] Contrary to 16S comparison results, GTDB Release 10 does find enough genomic diveregence between A. azotica (Trichormus azoticus) and T. azollae (Trichormus_B azollae) for them to be separate species. It goes further to put them in separate genera.[4]

References

  1. Plazinski, J.; Franche, C.; Liu, C. -C.; Lin, T.; Shaw, W.; Gunning, B. E. S.; Rolfe, B. G. (May 1988). "Taxonomic status of Anabaena azollae: An overview". Plant and Soil 108 (1): 185–190. doi:10.1007/BF02370114. Bibcode1988PlSoi.108..185P. 
  2. Papaefthimiou, D; Van Hove, C; Lejeune, A; Rasmussen, U; Wilmotte, A (February 2008). "DIVERSITY AND HOST SPECIFICITY OF AZOLLA CYANOBIONTS1". Journal of Phycology 44 (1): 60–70. doi:10.1111/j.1529-8817.2007.00448.x. PMID 27041041. Bibcode2008JPcgy..44...60P. 
  3. "Home - 'Nostoc azollae' 0708". https://genome.jgi.doe.gov/portal/anaaz/anaaz.home.html. 
  4. "GTDB - Tree: g__Trichormus_B". https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org/tree?r=g__Trichormus_B. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3614869 entry