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Citation for Study 23575

About Citation title: "Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae".
About Study name: "Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae".
About This study is part of submission 23575 (Status: Published).

Citation

Visagie C.M., Yilmaz N., Vanderwolf K.J., Renaud J.B., Sumarah M., Seifert K.A., & Malloch D. 2020. Penicillium diversity in Canadian bat caves, including a new species, P. speluncae. Fungal Systematics and Evolution, 5: 1-15.

Authors

  • Visagie C.M. (submitter)
  • Yilmaz N. Phone 0031611775719
  • Vanderwolf K.J.
  • Renaud J.B.
  • Sumarah M.
  • Seifert K.A.
  • Malloch D.

Abstract

Penicillium was commonly isolated during a fungal survey of bat hibernacula in New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada. Fungal strains were isolated from arthropods, bats, rodents (i.e. Peromyscus maniculatus), their dung, and cave walls. Hundreds of fungal species were obtained, of which Penicillium represented a major component of the community. Penicillium strains were grouped by colony characters on Blakeslee's malt extract agar. DNA sequencing of the secondary identification marker, β-tubulin, was done for representative strains from each group. In some cases, ITS and calmodulin were sequenced to confirm identifications. In total, 13 species were identified, often new reports for Canada, while eight strains consistently resolved into a unique clade with P. discolor, P. echinulatum and P. solitum its closest relatives. Penicillium speluncae is described using macro- and micromorphological characters, multigene phylogenies (including ITS, β-tubulin, calmodulin and RPB2) and extrolite profiles. The new species resembles P. discolor most closely. However, P. discolor has globose to subglobose, rough walled conidia in contrast to the ellipsoidal, smooth walled conidia of the new species. Major extrolites produced by the new species include cyclopenins, viridicatins, chaetoglobosins, and a microheterogenous series of cyclic and linear tetrapeptides.

Keywords

Thysanophora, sect. Fasciculata, Genealogical Concordance Phylogenetic Species Concept (GCPSR), Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), secondary metabolites

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