Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 2014, 35 (4): 399-425 © 2014 Adac. Tous droits réservés Taxonomic revision and examination of ecological transitions of the Lyophyllaceae (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) based on a multigene phylogeny Valérie HOFSTETTERa*, Scott Alan REDHEADb#, Frank KAUFFc#, Jean-Marc MONCALVOd, Patrick Brandon MATHENYe & Rytas VILGALYSf aAgroscope Changins-Wädenswil, Institut des sciences en production végétale IPV, CP1012, 1260 Nyon1, Switzerland e-mail:
[email protected] bNational Mycological Herbarium, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6 cFachbereich Biologie, Abt. Molekulare Phylogenetik, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany dDepartment of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6 fDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-1610, USA gDepartment of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA Abstract – We explored evolutionary relationships within the Lyophyllaceae by combining sequence data from six loci. The most likely phylogram led us to reconsider the Lyophyllaceae classification with the recognition of two new genera (Myochromella and Sagaranella) based on ecological and/or morphological distinctiveness. Lyophyllaceae are ecologically highly diversified and our phylogeny suggests that four to five ecological transitions from free-living to parasitic or mutualistic lifestyles have occurred within the family. Due to moderate phylogenetic support recovered for several relationships within that clade and due to the uncertainty about the ecological strategy adopted by five of the sampled species, three out of these transitions could be unequivocally reconstructed suggesting that saprotrophy is plesiomorphic for Lyophyllaceae.