From one to six: unrecognized species diversity in the genus Acantholichen (lichenized Basidiomycota: Hygrophoraceae)
| Autor: | Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Adriano Afonso Spielmann, Patrick M. Gillevet, Manuela Dal-Forno, James D. Lawrey, Luis Fernando Coca, Marcelo Pinto Marcelli, José Luis Chaves, Alba Yánez-Ayabaca, Robert Lücking, André Aptroot, Frank Bungartz, Harrie J. M. Sipman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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0301 basic medicine
Costa Rica Lichens Physiology Molecular Sequence Data Identification key Colombia Fungal Proteins 03 medical and health sciences Hygrophoraceae Phylogenetics Botany DNA Ribosomal Spacer Genetics Internal transcribed spacer DNA Fungal Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Phylogeny Fungal protein Phylogenetic tree biology Base Sequence Basidiomycota Species diversity Genetic Variation Cell Biology General Medicine Sequence Analysis DNA 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification Evolutionary biology Taxonomy (biology) Sequence Alignment Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Mycologia. 108(1) |
| ISSN: | 0027-5514 |
| Popis: | We present a taxonomic revision of the lichenized basidiomycete genus Acantholichen, species of which produce a characteristic blue-gray, microsquamulose thallus with spiny apical hyphal cells known as acanthohyphidia. Since its discovery, the genus was thought to be monospecific, only including the generic type, A. pannarioides. However, a detailed morphological and anatomical study of recently collected specimens from the Galapagos, Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia, combined with a molecular phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) region and 28S of the nuc rDNA and RPB2 sequences, revealed a much more diverse and widespread species assemblage. Based on the results of these analyses, we describe five new species in the genus: A. albomarginatus, A. campestris, A. galapagoensis, A. sorediatus and A. variabilis. We also provide an identification key to all species, anatomical and morphological descriptions, photographs and a table comparing main characters of each species. |
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