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2012 Duke Herbarium Annual Report DUKE HERBARIUM: ALGAE & FUNGI www.herbarium.duke.edu 2012 Annual Report Algae and Fungi Bryophytes Lichens Vascular Plants Herbarium Activity Statistics Page 2 Pages 3-4 Page 5 Pages 6-7 Page 8 DUKE HERBARIUM: 2012 NEWS Herbarium Data Manager, Blanka Shaw, oversaw the conversion and upgrade of CRYPTOGAMIC HERBARIUM both the bryophyte and lichen databases DATABASING PROGRESS into Specify6 collection management software in 2012. Blanka acts as the primary liaison to the Trinity Office of Technology Services, which provides server Records (cumulative) in in-house FUNGAL HERBARIUM management and IT support. Blaine Ott Specify databases Year NEWS FLASH! ! (TOTS) facilitated migration of the In 2012, our fungal collections curator, cryptogamic herbarium databases to a new Bryophytes Lichens Algae Rytas Vilgalys, secured NSF funds for the server in 2012. digitization and image organization of 2005 57,561 5,757 0 the fungal herbarium. This digitization 2006 99,332 7,750 0 project is called The Macrofungi Co!ection 2007 127,503 10,199 1 Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic 2008 139,612 12,743 31 Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human 2009 154,334 14,251 2,909 A#airs. This NSF grant no. 1206197 2010 157,108 21,216 >9000 (2012-2015) is led by Barbara Thiers at New York Botanical Garden. Funds will 2011 162,988 26,299 14,988 be available for our collection in 2013. 2012 167,573 36,631 >18,000 Herbarium Data Manager (B. Shaw) is overseeing the import of existing Duke fungal specimens into the MyCoPortal (http://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php) 2012 Duke Herbarium Annual Report DUKE HERBARIUM: ALGAE & FUNGI A LGAL N E W S 2012 PEER- REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS CITING D UKE ALGAL HERBARIUM The Duke Algal Herbarium participated in a 2012 Collaborative Proposal to NSF: Advancing None recorded. Digitization of Biodiversity Collections The MacroAlgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/ Aquatic Environment Funded! Starts in July 2013! 2012 Loan Activity *from* Algal Herbarium 1 Loan (1 specimen) 2012 Algal Herbarium Size 18,970 specimens 2012 PEER- REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS F UNGAL N EWS CITING D UKE FUNGAL HERBARIUM 2012 Users of Fungal Herbarium Guevara, G., G. Bonito, J. Trapp, E. Cazares, G. Williams, R. A. Healy, C. Schadt and R. Vilgalys. 2013. New North American truffles (Tuber spp.) and their Duke Faculty/Staf/Postdocs/Grads ectomycorrhizal associations. Mycologia 105(1):194-209. Epub 2012 Sep 6. Gregory Bonito Connie Robertson Blanka Shaw Healy, R.A., M.E. Smith, G.M. Bonito, D.H. Pfister, Z.-W. GE, G.G. Guevara, Jessie Uehling G. Williams, K. Staford, L. Kumar, T. Lee, C. Hobart, J. Trape, R. Vilgalys and Rytas Vilgalys (Curator) D.J. Mclaughlin. 2013. High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats Gwendolyn Williams in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales. Molecular Ecology 22(6):1717-32. Epub 2012 Dec 3. $ Bio Undergrad Students $ Mycology course (Bio 220L) Holec, J., and M. Kolařík. 2013. Ossicaulis lachnopus (Agaricales, Lyophyllaceae), a species similar to O. lignatilis, is verified by morphological and molecular methods. Mycological Progress (in 2012 Loan Activity *to* press). Epub 2012 Oct 16. Fungal Herbarium 1 Loan (16 specimens) Uehling, J.K., T.W. Henkel, MC Aimé, R. Vilgalys, M.E. Smith. 2012. New species of 2012 Loan Activity *from* Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with Fungal Herbarium resupinate and effused basidiomata from the 3 Loans (51 specimens) Guiana Shield. Mycologia 104(2):547-56. 2012 Accessions to Fungal Herbarium 333 specimens 2012 Fungal Herbarium Size 10,298 specimens 2 2012 Duke Herbarium Annual Report DUKE HERBARIUM: BRYOPHYTES 2012 PEER- R E V I E W E D (Sphagnaceae) indicates independent B RYOPHYTE NEWS PUBLICATIONS BY DUKE origins of an extreme infra-specific RESEARCHERS CITING DUKE morphology shift., Biological Journal of BRYOPHYTE HERBARIUM the Linnean Society 106: 137-153. 2012 Users of Karlin, E. F., S. C. Hotchkiss, S. B. Boles, H. K. Stenøien, K. Hassel, K. Bryophyte Herbarium Damayanti L., J. Munoz, S. Wicke, L. I. Flatberg, & A. J. Shaw. 2012. High Symmank, B. Shaw, J.-P. Frahm & Duke Faculty/Staf/Postdocs/ genetic diversity in a remote island D. Quandt. 2012. Common but new: Grads/Undergrads population system: sans sex. New Bartramia rosamrosiae, a "new" Nicolas Devos Phytologist 193: 1088-1097. widespread species of apple mosses Arielle Garrett (Bartramiales, Bryophytina) from the Pokorny, L., B.-C. Ho, J.-P. Frahm, D. Jacob Golan Mediterranean and western North Quandt, & A.J. Shaw. 2012. Matt Johnson America. Phytotaxa 73: 37–59. Phylogenetic analyses of morphological Molly McMullen evolution in the gametophyte and Ellis, L. T., A. Alegro, P. Bansal, V. Cinnamon Mittan sporophyte generations of the moss Nath, B. Cykowska, H. Bednarek- Jessica Nelson order Hookeriales (Bryopsida). Molecular Ochyra, R. Ochyra, M. V. Dulin, P. Carl Rothfels Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 351-364. Blanka Shaw Erzberger, C. Garcia, C. Sérgio, D. Jon Shaw (Curator) Claro, S. Stow, T. A. Hedderson, N. Shaw, A. J., K. I. Flatberg, P. $ G. Hodgetts, V. Hugonnot, J. Szövényi, M. Ricca, M. G. Johnson, $ Outside Visitors (4) Kucěra, F. Lara, L. Pertierra, M. H. K. Stenøien, & B. Shaw. 2012. Lebouvier, L. Liepina, A. Mežaka, L. Systematics of the Sphagnum fimbriatum Strazdin ̧a, L. Madžule, I. Rēriha, complex: phylogenetic relationships, A. Mazooji, R. Natcheva, N. morphological variation, and Phephu, D. A. Philippov, V. Plásek, allopolyploidy. Systematic Botany 63: L. Číhal, T. Pócs, R. D. Porley, M. 351-364. 2012 Loan Activity *to* Sabovljević , F. Salimpour, M. Bryophyte Herbarium Shaw, A. J., B. Shaw, M. Higuchi, T. Behroozmand Motlagh, F. 28 Loans (750 specimens) Arikawa, Y. Hirayama, & N. Devos. Sharifnia, S. Akhoondi Darzikolaei, 2012. Climacium (Climaciaceae): species A. Schäfer-Verwimp, V. Šegota, A. J. 2012 Loan Activity *from* relationships and biogeographic Shaw, M. Sim-Sim, P. Sollman, D. Bryophyte Herbarium implications. Bryologist 115: 23-30 . Spitale, A. Hölzer, A. Stebel, J. 21 Loans (644 specimens) Váňa, J. van Rooy, G. Vončina. 2012. Shaw, A. J., B. Shaw, M. Ricca, & K. I. New national and regional bryophyte Flatberg. 2012. A phylogenetic 2012 Accessions to records. Journal of Bryology 34: 231-246. monograph of the Sphagnum subsecundum Bryophyte Herbarium complex (Sphagnaceae) in eastern North Heinrichs, J., A. Bombosch, K. 252 specimens America. Bryologist 115: 128-152 . Feldberg, H.-P. Kreier, J. Hentschel, 2012 Bryophyte Herbarium Size J. Eckstein, D. Long, R.-L. Zhu, A. Szövényi, P., S. Sundberg, & A. J. 255,252 specimens Schäfer-Verwimp, A. R. Schmidt, B. Shaw. 2012. Long-distance dispersal and Shaw, A. J. Shaw, & J. Váňa. 2012. A genetic structure of natural populations: phylogeny of the northern temperate an assessment of the inverse isolation leafy liverwort genus Scapania hypothesis in peat mosses, Molecular (Scapaniaceae, Jungermanniales). Ecology 21: 5461-5472. BRYOPHYTE DATABASE Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 973–985 . The bryophyte database is available for searches on the Symbiota portal of the Bryophyte Ho, B.-C., L. Pokorny, B. Tan, J.-P. Consortium of North American Herbaria: Frahm, A. J. Shaw, & D. Quandt. 2012. Molecular evolution and http://bryophyteportal.org/portal/co!ections/ diversification of the moss family index.php. Daltoniaceae (Hookeriales, Bryophyta) with emphasis on unraveling the Progress on the 2011-2015 NSF Digitization phylogeny of Distichophy!um and its Project: North American Lichens and allies. Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Society 170: 157–175 . Environmental Quality and Change, can Johnson, M., B. Shaw, P. Zhou, & A. J. also be viewed from this portal. Shaw. 2012. Genetic analysis of the peatmoss Sphagnum cribrosum 2012 Duke Herbarium Annual Report 3 DUKE HERBARIUM: BRYOPHYTES 2012 PEER- R E V I E W E D Medina, R., F. Lara, B. Gofnet, R. M ORE B RY O P H Y T E N E W S PUBLICATIONS BY NON-DUKE Garilleti, & V. Mazimpaka. 2012. RESEARCHERS CITING DUKE Integrative taxonomy successfully BRYOPHYTE HERBARIUM resolves the pseudo-cryptic complex of the disjunct epiphytic moss Orthotrichum consimile sl (Orthotrichaceae). Taxon 61: Cooper, E. D., & M. J. Henwood. 2012. 1180-1198. A molecular phylogeny of the Lepidozia generic complex supports re- Ochyra, R., & J. R. Shevock. 2012. A circumscription of the Lepidozioideae. fruiting plant of Handeliobryum sikkimense Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: (Bryopsida, Thamnobryaceae) from 10-22. Yunnan, China. Nova Hedwigia 94: 3-4. Crandall-Stotler, B., & R. E. Stotler. Piñeiro, R., M. Popp, K. Hassel, D. 2012. Ontogenetic studies, sporophyte Listl, K. B. Westergaard, K. I. anatomy and phylogenetic affinities of Flatberg, H. K. Stenøien & C. Phy!otha!ia nivicola (Phyllothalliaceae, Brochmann. 2012. Circumarctic Marchantiophyta). Nova Hedwigia 95: 3-4. dispersal and long-distance colonization of South America: the moss genus Davison, P. G. & H. W. Robison. 2012. Cinclidium. Journal of Biogeography 39: Metzgeria uncigera new to Arkansas. 2041-2051. Evansia 29: 54-55. Söderström, L., A. Hagborg, M.R. Furze, J., J. Hill, Q. M. Zhu, & F. Qiao. Crosby, & M. Von Konrat. 2012. Early 2012. Algorithms for the characterisation Land Plants Today: Index of Liverworts of plant strategy patterns on a global & Hornworts 2009–2010. Phytotaxa 63: scale. American Journal of Geographic 21-68. Information Systems 1: 72-99. Spence, J. R., & J. R. Shevock. 2012. He, Q., Y. M. Wei, & R. L. Zhu. 2012. Ptychostomum pacificum (Bryaceae), a new Vitalianthus guangxianus (Lejeuneaceae), a fen species from California, Oregon, and new species from Guangxi, China. Journal Western Nevada, USA. Madroño 59: In 2012, an NSF grant was awarded of Bryology 34: 32-36. 156-162. that wil result in significant enrichment of the Frullania Hedenäs, L. 2012. Global phylogeography Terracciano, S., S. Giordano & V. liverwort colection at Duke in Sanionia uncinata (Amblystegiaceae: Spagnuolo. 2012. A further tessera in Bryophyta). Botanical Journal of the the two-centuries-old debate on the Linnean Society 168: 19-42. Hypnum cupressiforme complex Frulania Liu, Y., J.
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