CiteULike CiteULike
Delicious Delicious
Connotea Connotea

Citation for Study 15023

About Citation title: "A molecular phylogeny of the lichen genus Biatora including some morphologically similar species".
About Study name: "A molecular phylogeny of the lichen genus Biatora including some morphologically similar species".
About This study is part of submission 15023 (Status: Published).

Citation

Printzen C. 2014. A molecular phylogeny of the lichen genus Biatora including some morphologically similar species. The Lichenologist, 46.

Authors

  • Printzen C.

Abstract

The lichen genus Biatora comprises inconspicuous crustose lichens that are typically found on organic substrata such as tree bark, bryophytes and detritus. During the last 20 years many new species have been added to the genus making its delimitation more and more difficult. The infrageneric relationships of the 42 species have never been investigated thoroughly. I use DNA sequences from three gene loci (ITS, RPB2, mrSSU) and 59 OTUs to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships of Biatora and its infrageneric groups. Cliostomum appears to be the closest relative of Biatora. The position of Mycobilimbia in the Lecania-clade is confirmed. Phylogenetic relationships within Biatora are poorly supported, but six different species groups that are also phenotypically distinguished are more or less well supported: the vernalis-, meiocarpa-, hertelii-, ocelliformis-, beckhausii- and rufidula-group. The analysis also confirms the presence of several undescribed taxa. Biatora subduplex as currently circumscribed appears to be heterogeneous, as does B. helvola. Based on the phylogeny, the distributional range of B. alaskana is extended to Japan. The new combinations Biatora ementiens (Nyl.) Printzen and Biatora hemipolia (Nyl.) S. Ekman & Printzen are made.

Keywords

Ramalinaceae, Lecidea s. lat., Bacidia, Mycobilimbia, ITS, RPB2, mrSSU

External links

About this resource

  • Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S15023
  • Other versions: Download Reconstructed NEXUS File Nexus Download NeXML File NeXML
  • Show BibTeX reference
  • Show RIS reference