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Citation for Study 18076

About Citation title: "Phylogeny of yeasts and related filamentous fungi within Pucciniomycotina determined from multigene sequence analyses".
About Study name: "Phylogeny of yeasts and related filamentous fungi within Pucciniomycotina determined from multigene sequence analyses".
About This study is part of submission 18076 (Status: Published).

Citation

Wang Q., Groenewald M., Takashima M., Theelen B., Liu X., Boekhout T., & Bai F. 2015. Phylogeny of yeasts and related filamentous fungi within Pucciniomycotina determined from multigene sequence analyses. Studies in Mycology, 81: 27-53.

Authors

  • Wang Q. Phone 81-10-64807352
  • Groenewald M. Phone +31 (0)30 212 2614
  • Takashima M.
  • Theelen B.
  • Liu X.
  • Boekhout T.
  • Bai F.

Abstract

In addition to rusts, the subphylum Pucciniomycotina (Basidiomycota) includes a large number of unicellular or dimorphic fungi which are usually studied as yeasts. Ribosomal DNA sequence analyses have shown that the current taxonomic system of the pucciniomycetous yeasts which is based on phenotypic criteria is not concordant with the molecular phylogeny and many genera are polyphyletic. Here we inferred the molecular phylogeny of 184 pucciniomycetous yeast species and related filamentous fungi using maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian inference analyses based on the sequences of seven genes, including the small subunit ribosomal DNA (rDNA), the large subunit rDNA D1/D2 domains, the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS 1 and 2) of rDNA including the 5.8S rDNA gene; the nuclear protein-coding genes of the two subunits of DNA polymerase II (RPB1 and RPB2) and the translation elongation factor 1-? (TEF1); and the mitochondrial gene cytochrome b (CYTB). A total of 33 monophyletic clades and 18 single species lineages were recognized among the pucciniomycetous yeasts employed, which belonged to four major lineages corresponding to Agaricostilbomycetes, Cystobasidiomycetes, Microbotryomycetes and Mixiomycetes. These lineages remained independent from the classes Atractiellomycetes, Classiculomycetes, Pucciniomycetes and Tritirachiomycetes formed by filamentous taxa in Pucciniomycotina. An updated taxonomic system of pucciniomycetous yeasts implementing the ?one fungus = one name? principle will be proposed based on the phylogenetic framework presented here.

Keywords

Fungi, Basidiomycota, Pucciniomycotina, yeasts, multigene phylogeny

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