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Zhang X, Shi F, Yang K, Zhao C. The diversity and taxonomy of Tomentella (Thelephoraceae, Thelephorales) with descriptions of four new species from Southwestern China. MycoKeys 2024; 109:1-29. [PMID: 39328961 PMCID: PMC11422715 DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.109.132941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2024] [Accepted: 08/28/2024] [Indexed: 09/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Taxonomy plays a central role in understanding the diversity of life, translating the products of biological exploration and discovery specimens and observations into systems of names that settle a "classification home" to taxa. Up to this point, studies on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the basidiomycetous genus Tomentella stemmed mainly from the temperate to boreal zones of the North Hemisphere, but were scarce in tropical Asia. In this study, four new species, viz. Tomentellaolivaceobasidiosa, T.velutina, T.wumenshanensis and T.yunnanensis from China, are described and illustrated based on the morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analyses, in which the sequences of ITS+nLSU+mtSSU+RPB2 genes were used for the phylogenetic analyses using Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Inference methods. All the new species can be well recognised by their macroscopical and anatomical characteristics. The four new species, closely related taxa in the phylogenetic tree and morphologically similar species are discussed.
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- Xiaojie Zhang
- The Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of In-forest Resource, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of In-forest Resource, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of In-forest Resource, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
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Ribeiro Tomé LM, Quintanilha-Peixoto G, Costa-Rezende DH, Salvador-Montoya CA, Cardoso D, S Araújo D, Freitas JM, Bielefeld Nardoto G, Alves-Silva G, Drechsler-Santos ER, Góes-Neto A. Comparative genomics and stable isotope analysis reveal the saprotrophic-pathogenic lifestyle of a neotropical fungus. mBio 2024; 15:e0142324. [PMID: 39012152 PMCID: PMC11325261 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01423-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 06/20/2024] [Indexed: 07/17/2024] Open
Abstract
In terrestrial forested ecosystems, fungi may interact with trees in at least three distinct ways: (i) associated with roots as symbionts; (ii) as pathogens in roots, trunks, leaves, flowers, and fruits; or (iii) decomposing dead tree tissues on soil or even on dead tissues in living trees. Distinguishing the latter two nutrition modes is rather difficult in Hymenochaetaceae (Basidiomycota) species. Herein, we have used an integrative approach of comparative genomics, stable isotopes, host tree association, and bioclimatic data to investigate the lifestyle ecology of the scarcely known neotropical genus Phellinotus, focusing on the unique species Phellinotus piptadeniae. This species is strongly associated with living Piptadenia gonoacantha (Fabaceae) trees in the Atlantic Forest domain on a relatively high precipitation gradient. Phylogenomics resolved P. piptadeniae in a clade that also includes both plant pathogens and typical wood saprotrophs. Furthermore, both genome-predicted Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZy) and stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) revealed a rather flexible lifestyle for the species. Altogether, our findings suggest that P. piptadeniae has been undergoing a pathotrophic specialization in a particular tree species while maintaining all the metabolic repertoire of a wood saprothroph. IMPORTANCE This is the first genomic description for Phellinotus piptadeniae. This basidiomycete is found across a broad range of climates and ecosystems in South America, including regions threatened by extensive agriculture. This fungus is also relevant considering its pathotrophic-saprotrophic association with Piptadenia goanocantha, which we began to understand with these new results that locate this species among biotrophic and necrotrophic fungi.
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- Luiz Marcelo Ribeiro Tomé
- Department of Microbiology, Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi Laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi Laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- MIND.Funga (Monitoring and Inventorying Neotropical Diversity of Fungi) - MICOLAB, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Fundación Miguel Lillo, Instituto Criptogámico-Sección Micología, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
- Organización Juvenil "Hongos Perú", Cusco, Santiago, Peru
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- Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (JBRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- MIND.Funga (Monitoring and Inventorying Neotropical Diversity of Fungi) - MICOLAB, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- MIND.Funga (Monitoring and Inventorying Neotropical Diversity of Fungi) - MICOLAB, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Molecular and Computational Biology of Fungi Laboratory, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Salvador-Montoya CA, Martínez M, Drechsler-Santos ER. Taxonomic update of species closely related to Fulvifomes robiniae in America. Mycol Prog 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11557-022-01843-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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