Endophoma, a new didymellaceous endoconidial genus from bat-cave soil.
Mycologia, 2011/9-2011/10;103(5):1146-55.
Tsuneda A[1], Davey ML, Tsuneda I, Hudgins A, Currah RS
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PMID: 21558498DOI: 10.3852/11-054
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Abstract
A new endoconidial taxon, Endophoma elongata gen. et sp. nov., isolated from bat-cave soil, is reported from Alberta, Canada. It is morphologically unique in producing two forms of unilocular, endoconidial conidiomata (i.e. a superficially Phoma-like spherical, often ostiolate form and a cylindrical, non-ostiolate, often setose cleistopycnidial form). Locules of both forms are pseudoparenchymatous, filled with hyaline, thin-walled, endoconidial conidiogenous cells. Endoconidia are hyaline and unicellular. One- or two-celled chlamydospores are abundant in culture. Phylogenetic analysis of the LSU, ITS and β-tubulin regions indicates Endophoma is a member of the Didymellaceae and remote from all other endoconidial genera. Endoconidiogenesis has not been reported previously within the Didymellaceae, and Endophoma represents the first report of a coelomycetous, endoconidial genus in the Pleosporales.
MeSH terms
Animals; Ascomycota; Base Sequence; Canada; Caves; Chiroptera; DNA, Fungal; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer; Phylogeny; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Soil Microbiology; Spores, Fungal; Tubulin
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