A five-gene phylogeny of Pezizomycotina

Joseph W. Spatafora, Gi Ho Sung, Desiree Johnson, Cedar Hesse, Benjamin O'Rourke, Maryna Serdani, Robert Spotts, François Lutzoni, Valérie Hofstetter, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Valérie Reeb, Cécile Gueidan, Emily Fraker, Thorsten Lumbsch, Robert Lücking, Imke Schmitt, Kentaro Hosaka, André Aptroot, Claude Roux, Andrew N. MillerDavid M. Geiser, Josef Hafellner, Geir Hestmark, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Burkhard Büdel, Alexandra Rauhut, David Hewitt, Wendy A. Untereiner, Mariette S. Cole, Christoph Scheidegger, Matthias Schultz, Harrie Sipman, Conrad L. Schoch

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Abstract

Pezizomycotina is the largest subphylum of Ascomycota and includes the vast majority of filamentous, ascoma-producing species. Here we report the results fromweighted parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of five nuclear loci (SSU rDNA, LSU rDNA, RPB1, RPB2 and EF-1α) from 191 taxa. Nine of the 10 Pezizomycotina classes currently recognized were represented in the sampling. These data strongly supported the monophyly of Pezizomycotina, Arthoniomycetes, Eurotiomycetes, Orbiliomycetes and Sordariomycetes. Pezizomycetes and Dothideomycetes also were resolved as monophyletic but not strongly supported by the data. Lecanoromycetes was resolved as paraphyletic in parsimony analyses but monophyletic in maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Leotiomycetes was polyphyletic due to exclusion of Geoglossaceae. The two most basal classes of Pezizomycotina were Orbiliomycetes and Pezizomycetes, both of which comprise species that produce apothecial ascomata. The seven remaining classes formed a monophyletic group that corresponds to Leotiomyceta. Within Leotiomyceta, the supraclass clades of Leotiomycetes s.s. plus Sordariomycetes and Arthoniomycetes plus Dothideomycetes were resolved with moderate support.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1018-1028
Number of pages11
JournalMycologia
Volume98
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2006

Keywords

  • Ascoma
  • Ascomycota
  • Ascus
  • Evolution
  • Fungi
  • Systematics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physiology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Cell Biology

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