@article {bendif_rapid_2023,
	title = {Rapid diversification underlying the global dominance of a cosmopolitan phytoplankton},
	journal = {The ISME Journal},
	year = {2023},
	note = {Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
	pages = {1{\textendash}11},
	abstract = {Marine phytoplankton play important roles in the global ecosystem, with a limited number of cosmopolitan keystone species driving their biomass. Recent studies have revealed that many of these phytoplankton are complexes composed of sibling species, but little is known about the evolutionary processes underlying their formation. Gephyrocapsa huxleyi, a widely distributed and abundant unicellular marine planktonic algae, produces calcified scales (coccoliths), thereby significantly affects global biogeochemical cycles via sequestration of inorganic carbon. This species is composed of morphotypes defined by differing degrees of coccolith calcification, the evolutionary ecology of which remains unclear. Here, we report an integrated morphological, ecological and genomic survey across globally distributed G. huxleyi strains to reconstruct evolutionary relationships between morphotypes in relation to their habitats. While G. huxleyi has been considered a single cosmopolitan species, our analyses demonstrate that it has evolved to comprise at least three distinct species, which led us to formally revise the taxonomy of the G. huxleyi complex. Moreover, the first speciation event occurred before the onset of the last interglacial period (\textasciitilde140 ka), while the second followed during this interglacial. Then, further rapid diversifications occurred during the most recent ice-sheet expansion of the last glacial period and established morphotypes as dominant populations across environmental clines. These results suggest that glacial-cycle dynamics contributed to the isolation of ocean basins and the segregations of oceans fronts as extrinsic drivers of micro-evolutionary radiations in extant marine phytoplankton.},
	keywords = {Microbial biooceanography, phylogenomics, population genetics, rcc1212, RCC1216, rcc1220, RCC1239, RCC1240, RCC1242, RCC1245, rcc1252, RCC1253, RCC1266, RCC1304, rcc1731, RCC1754, RCC1813, RCC1823, rcc1824, RCC1830, RCC1838, RCC1840, RCC1853, RCC1856, RCC3746, RCC4027, RCC4028, RCC4030, RCC5134, RCC5137, RCC5141, RCC6381, RCC6421, RCC6427, RCC6566, RCC6660, RCC6666, RCC911, RCC963},
	issn = {1751-7370},
	doi = {10.1038/s41396-023-01365-5},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-023-01365-5},
	author = {Bendif, El Mahdi and Probert, Ian and Archontikis, Odysseas A. and Young, Jeremy R. and Beaufort, Luc and Rickaby, Rosalind E. and Filatov, Dmitry}
}
@article {filatov_mode_2021,
	title = {The mode of speciation during a recent radiation in open-ocean phytoplankton},
	journal = {Current Biology},
	year = {2021},
	month = {oct},
	abstract = {Despite the enormous ecological importance of marine phytoplankton, surprisingly little is known about how new phytoplankton species originate and evolve in the open ocean, in the absence of apparent geographic barriers that typically act as isolation mechanisms in speciation. To investigate the mechanism of open-ocean speciation, we combined fossil and climatic records from the late Quaternary with genome-wide evolutionary genetic analyses of speciation in the ubiquitous and abundant pelagic coccolithophore genus Gephyrocapsa (including G. huxleyi, formerly known as Emiliania huxleyi). Based on the analysis of 43 sequenced genomes, we report that the best-fitting scenario for all speciation events analyzed included an extended period of complete isolation followed by recent (Holocene) secondary contact, supporting the role of geographic or oceanographic barriers in population divergence and speciation. Consistent with this, fossil data reveal considerable diachroneity of species first occurrence. The timing of all speciation events coincided with glacial phases of glacial-interglacial cycles, suggesting that stronger isolation between the ocean basins and increased segregation of ecological niches during glaciations are important drivers of speciation in marine phytoplankton. The similarity across multiple speciation events implies the generality of this inferred speciation scenario for marine phytoplankton.},
	keywords = {phytoplankton, population genetic modeling, rcc1212, rcc1238, RCC1239, RCC1253, RCC1281, RCC1296, RCC1310, RCC1314, RCC1562, RCC1836, RCC3370, RCC3711, RCC3733, RCC3862, RCC3898, RCC4002, RCC4028, RCC4030, RCC4032, RCC4033, RCC4034, RCC4035, RCC4036, RCC5119, RCC5134, RCC5137, RCC5141, RCC6566, RCC6730, secondary contact, sequence polymorphism, speciation},
	issn = {0960-9822},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.073},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221013415},
	author = {Filatov, Dmitry A. and Bendif, El Mahdi and Archontikis, Odysseas A. and Hagino, Kyoko and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M.}
}
@article {Ruiz2017,
	title = {Emerging interaction patterns in the emiliania huxleyi-EhV system},
	journal = {Viruses},
	volume = {9},
	number = {3},
	year = {2017},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1211,RCC1213,RCC1215,RCC1216,RCC1218,RCC1228,RCC1231,RCC1235,RCC1239,RCC1241,RCC1242,RCC1246,RCC1249,RCC1250,RCC1253,RCC1255,RCC1256,RCC1257,RCC1259,RCC1268,RCC1269,RCC1272,RCC1276,RCC1322,RCC1744,RCC1745,RCC1857,RCC3548,RCC3856,RCC3923,RCC3956},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {61},
	abstract = {Viruses are thought to be fundamental in driving microbial diversity in the oceanic planktonic realm. That role and associated emerging infection patterns remain particularly elusive for eukaryotic phytoplankton and their viruses. Here we used a vast number of strains from the model system Emiliania huxleyi/Emiliania huxleyi Virus to quantify parameters such as growth rate ({\textmu}), resistance (R), and viral production (Vp) capacities. Algal and viral abundances were monitored by flow cytometry during 72-h incubation experiments. The results pointed out higher viral production capacity in generalist EhV strains, and the virus-host infection network showed a strong co-evolution pattern between E. huxleyi and EhV populations. The existence of a trade-off between resistance and growth capacities was not confirme},
	keywords = {algae virus, coccolithophore, coccolithovirus, cost of, haptophyta, infectivity trade-offs, killing-the-winner, marine viral ecology, phycodnaviridae, RCC1211, RCC1213, RCC1215, RCC1216, RCC1218, RCC1228, RCC1231, RCC1235, RCC1239, RCC1241, RCC1242, RCC1246, RCC1249, RCC1250, RCC1253, RCC1255, rcc1256, RCC1257, RCC1259, RCC1268, RCC1269, RCC1272, RCC1276, RCC1322, RCC1744, RCC1745, RCC1857, RCC3548, RCC3856, RCC3923, RCC3956, resistance, viral-host interactions},
	issn = {1999-4915},
	doi = {10.3390/v9030061},
	url = {http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/9/3/61},
	author = {Ruiz, Eliana and Oosterhof, Monique and Sandaa, Ruth-Anne and Larsen, Aud and Pagarete, Ant{\'o}nio}
}
