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Citation for Study 11205

About Citation title: "Neotropical and North American Vaccinioideae (Ericaceae) share their mycorrhizal Sebacinales - an indication for concerted migration? Version 78.".
About Study name: "Neotropical and North American Vaccinioideae (Ericaceae) share their mycorrhizal Sebacinales - an indication for concerted migration? Version 78.".
About This study is part of submission 11195 (Status: Published).

Citation

Setaro S.D., & Kron K.A. 2011. Neotropical and North American Vaccinioideae (Ericaceae) share their mycorrhizal Sebacinales - an indication for concerted migration? Version 78. PLoS Currents: Tree of Life, Mar 3:: PMC3064880.

Authors

  • Setaro S.D. (submitter)
  • Kron K.A.

Abstract

Neotropical Vaccinioideae (Ericaceae) are evolutionary rather young and of presumable of North American origin. Vaccinioideae are highly dependent on their mycorrhizal symbiosis and Sebacinales (basidiomycetes) were previously found to be the dominant mycobionts of Andean Clade Vaccinioideae (Neotropical Vaccinieae). We were interested to see wether the North American Vaccinioideae invaded the Neotropics by taking their mycobionts with them or by the acquisition of new, local Sebacinales. We investigated Sebacinales of 58 individuals of Vaccinioideae from Ecuador, Panama and North America in order to see whether the mycobionts of each region are distantly or closely related. We isolated the ITS of the ribosomal nuclear DNA in order to infer a molecular phylogeny of Sebacinales and to determine Molecular Operation Taxonomic Units (MOTUs). The MOTU delimitation was based on a 3% threshold of ITS variability and conducted with complete linkage clustering. The analyses revealed that most Sebacinales from Ecuador, Panama and North America are closely related and that two MOTUs out of 33 have a distribution ranging from the Neotropics to the Pacific Northwest of North America. The data suggest that Neotropical and temperate Vaccinioideae of North America share their Sebacinales communities and that both, plants and fungi, migrated together.

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