available online at www.studiesinmycology.org StudieS in Mycology 64: 85–102. 2009. doi:10.3114/sim.2009.64.04 Multi-locus phylogeny of Pleosporales: a taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation Y. Zhang1, C.L. Schoch2, J. Fournier3, P.W. Crous4, J. de Gruyter4, 5, J.H.C. Woudenberg4, K. Hirayama6, K. Tanaka6, S.B. Pointing1, J.W. Spatafora7 and K.D. Hyde8, 9* 1Division of Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, P.R. China; 2National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 45 Center Drive, MSC 6510, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-6510, U.S.A.; 3Las Muros, Rimont, Ariège, F 09420, France; 4CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 85167, 3508 AD, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 5Plant Protection Service, P.O. Box 9102, 6700 HC Wageningen, The Netherlands; 6Faculty of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Hirosaki University, Bunkyo-cho 3, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan; 7Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 93133, U.S.A.; 8School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Tasud, Muang, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand; 9International Fungal Research & Development Centre, The Research Institute of Resource Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming, Yunnan, P.R. China 650034 *Correspondence: Kevin D. Hyde,
[email protected] Abstract: Five loci, nucSSU, nucLSU rDNA, TEF1, RPB1 and RPB2, are used for analysing 129 pleosporalean taxa representing 59 genera and 15 families in the current classification ofPleosporales . The suborder Pleosporineae is emended to include four families, viz. Didymellaceae, Leptosphaeriaceae, Phaeosphaeriaceae and Pleosporaceae. In addition, two new families are introduced, i.e.