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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Multi-locus phylogeny of Pleosporales: A taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation
Studies in Mycology, Volume 64, Year 2009
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Five loci, nucSSU, nucLSU rDNA, TEF1, RPB1 and RPB2, are used for analysing 129 pleosporalean taxa representing 59 genera and 15 families in the current classification of Pleosporales. The suborder Pleosporineae is emended to include four families, viz. Didymellaceae, Leptosphaeriaceae, Phaeosphaeriaceae and Pleosporaceae. In addition, two new families are introduced, i.e. Amniculicolaceae and Lentitheciaceae. Pleomassariaceae is treated as a synonym of Melanommataceae, and new circumscriptions of Lophiostomataceae s. str., Massarinaceae and Lophiotrema are proposed. Familial positions of Entodesmium and Setomelanomma in Phaeosphaeriaceae, Neophaeosphaeria in Leptosphaeriaceae, Leptosphaerulina, Macroventuria and Platychora in Didymellaceae, Pleomassaria in Melanommataceae and Bimuria, Didymocrea, Karstenula and Paraphaeosphaeria in Montagnulaceae are clarified. Both ecological and morphological characters show varying degrees of phylogenetic significance. Pleosporales is most likely derived from a saprobic ancestor with fissitunicate asci containing conspicuous ocular chambers and apical rings. Nutritional shifts in Pleosporales likely occured from saprotrophic to hemibiotrophic or biotrophic. © 2009 CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre.
Authors & Co-Authors
Zhang, Ying
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong
Schoch, Conrad L.
United States, Bethesda
National Center for Biotechnology Information Ncbi
Fournier, Jacques
France, Rimont
Las Muros
Crous, Pedro Willem
Netherlands, Utrecht
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Knaw
de Gruyter, Johannes
Netherlands, Utrecht
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Knaw
Netherlands, Wageningen
Wageningen University & Research
Woudenberg, Joyce H.C.
Netherlands, Utrecht
Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute - Knaw
Hirayama, Kazuyuki
Japan, Hirosaki
Hirosaki University
Tanaka, Kazuaki
Japan, Hirosaki
Hirosaki University
Pointing, Stephen B.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong
Spatafora, Joseph W.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Hyde, Kevin D.
Thailand, Chiang Rai
Mae Fah Luang University
China, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Forestry
Statistics
Citations: 272
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 9
Identifiers
Doi:
10.3114/sim.2009.64.04
ISSN:
01660616