Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences

Francois Roets; Z Wilhelm de Beer; Léanne L Dreyer; Renate Zipfel; Pedro W Crous; Michael J Wingfield

Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences

Francois Roets, Z Wilhelm de Beer, Léanne L Dreyer, Renate Zipfel, Pedro W Crous, Michael J Wingfield

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Abstract

Ophiostoma represents a genus of fungi that are mostly arthropod-dispersed and have a wide global distribution. The best known of these fungi are carried by scolytine bark beetles that infest trees, but an interesting guild of Ophiostoma spp. occurs in the infructescences of Protea spp. native to South Africa. Phylogenetic relationships between Ophiostoma spp. from Protea infructescences were studied using DNA sequence data from the beta-tubulin, 5.8S ITS (including the flanking internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2) and the large subunit DNA regions. Two new species, O. phasma sp. nov. and O. palmiculminatum sp. nov. are described and compared with other Ophiostoma spp. occurring in the same niche. Results of this study have raised the number of Ophiostoma species from the infructescences of serotinous Protea spp. in South Africa to five. Molecular data also suggest that adaptation to the Protea infructescence niche by Ophiostoma spp. has occurred independently more than once.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-212
Number of pages	14
Journal	Studies in Mycology
Volume	55
Publication status	Published - 2006

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Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences

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