DOCSLIB.ORG

Ascomyceteorg 07-06 357-366.Pdf

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ascomyceteorg 07-06 357-366.Pdf Fun with the discomycetes: revisiting collections of Korf’s ana- morphic Pezizales and Thaxter’s New England truffles leads to a connection between forms and the description of two new truffle species: Pachyphlodes pfisteri and P. nemoralis Rosanne HEALY Summary: Pachyphlodes is a pleiomorphic pezizalean truffle genus, originally described from Europe. Color Caroline HOBART is an important diagnostic character for the species in this genus, and is naturally, if unfortunately, obscured Genevieve E. TOCCI in dried herbarium specimens. Therefore, some notable experts have understandably misidentified some Lilla BÓNA of the species in herbaria. This study was part of a larger effort to use molecular phylogenetic analyses fol- lowed by morphological study to sort the relationships and species limits within Pachyphlodes. One clade Zsolt MERÉNYI of Pachyphlodes that we refer to here as the /nemoralis clade was previously unrecognized for its unique Aurelia PAZ CONDE spore ornamentation of coalesced spine tips present in all species in this clade studied to date. A North Ame- Matthew E. SMITH rican species was misidentified asP. melanoxanthus, while a European species was misidentified asP. citrinus, or P. ligericus. Here we describe these two species in the /nemoralis clade as P. pfisteri from North America Ascomycete.org, 7 (6) : 357-366. and P. nemoralis from Europe. We also link a mitosporic form to P. pfisteri, and revisit the concept of the mi- Novembre 2015 tosporic form called Glischroderma. We dedicate this paper to Richard P. Korf, who’s work on pezizalean ana- Mise en ligne le 30/11/2015 morphs inspired this study. Keywords: Ascomycota, Pezizales, Pachyphlodes nemoralis, pfisteri, Pachyphloeus, spore mats, Glischroderma, phylogeny. Introduction chyphlodes pfisteri, a fresh spore mat was fixed and embedded in resin following CURRY & KIMBROUGH (1983) and then 20 serial sections 3 μm thick were cut with glass knives, mounted on slides and stai- In 1994 Dr. Richard P. Korf gave a marvelous talk and paper titled ned with Toluidine Blue O. For scanning electron microscopy (SEM), “Fifty years of fun with the discomycetes and what’s left to do” (KORF, dried material was revived in 3% KOH and then gradually dehydra- 1994). This talk featured a visible mat of vegetative hyphae that is ted to absolute ethanol followed by critical point drying (CPD). CPD formed in either a discrete or indeterminate patch and that pro- pieces of gleba were placed on carbon tape on aluminum stubs, duces spores through mitosis (here after referred to as a “spore sputter coated with gold/palladium, and viewed with 10 kV on a mat”). Korf and his students collected these spore mats on soil in scanning electron microscope in the University Imaging Center at the woods around Ithaca, New York. He recognized the affiliation of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul. Voucher specimens are depo- these spore mats with the Pezizales and he tentatively identified sited in the Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University (FH), Royal Bo- them as Glischroderma Fuckel, a poorly known form genus erected tanic Garden at Kew (K), University of Lille (LIP), and University of for a spore mat described from Germany (FUCKEL, 1870: 34). His talk Florida Fungal Herbarium (FLAS). discussed the morphological ambiguity of this species (i.e. does it have a peridium?), its identity, and what was known about spore Molecular methods mats in other species that are affiliated with the Pezizales. He gave We attempted ITS and 28S rDNA sequencing for all described spe- a piece of a spore mat to Dr. Keith N. Egger for DNA sequencing and cies of Pachyphlodes. Of the twelve described species and two va- the 28S rDNA sequence was phylogenetically affiliated withScabro- rieties of Pachyphlodes, sequences were available or newly obtained pezia and Pachyphlodes (NORMAN & EGGER, 1999). Here we revisit the for all except P. saccardoi (Mattir.) Doweld, and P. melanoxanthus morphology and phylogenetic affinity of Korf’s spore mat collection subsp. xanthocarnosus (Soehner) Doweld. Sequences and morpho- and show that the sequences of this anamorphic form match the logical study of P. lateritius (Fogel & States) Doweld and P. macros- ascocarp of a new North American truffle species, Pachyphlodes pfis- porus (Calonge) Doweld 2013 revealed that they do not belong to teri sp. nov. We also describe a European relative from the same mo- Pachyphlodes sensu stricto so they are not included in these analyses. lecular phylogenetic clade Pachyphlodes nemoralis sp. nov. P. lateritius is a Geopora and P. macrosporus is a Hydnotrya. Speci- mens of P. saccardoi and P. melanoxanthus subsp. xanthocarnosus Material and Methods were available for morphological study but were too old to obtain sequences. We judged from their morphologies and the morpho- logy and sequences of P. ligericus (Tul. & C. Tul. ex Berk.) Zobel and Material studied P. austro-oregonensis (J.L. Frank & Trappe) Doweld that these species We studied fresh European and North American collections of would not be pertinent to the species we are describing here, so spore mats and ascomata as well as herbarium collections borrowed they are not included in our phylogenetic analyses or discussion. from Cornell University (CUP), Harvard University (FH), Oregon State Fresh or dried ascomata and mitosporic spore mats were placed in University (OSC), the Swedish Museum of Natural History (S), and CTAB extraction buffer and DNA was extracted using a standard the Real Jardín Botánico (MA) herbaria as well as specimens kindly chloroform method (GARDES & BRUNS, 1993). ITS and 28S rDNA was provided by Dr. James M. Trappe. All measurements are based on PCR-amplified with forward primers ITS1F, ITS5 and reverse primers material rehydrated in water (spores) or 5% KOH (to inflate asci and ITS4, LR5, and LR3 (GARDES & BRUNS, 1993; VILGALYS & HESTER, 1990; peridia). Reactions were recorded in 5% KOH and Melzer’s solution. WHITE et al., 1990). Amplicons were cleaned and sequenced bidirec- For each species description, average measurements were calcula- tionally with the same primers as for PCR. Sanger sequencing was ted based on 50 mature meiospores or mitospores and 20 asci. Ma- performed at the University of Florida Interdisciplinary Center for terial was observed in Melzer’s solution to assess the amyloid Biotechnology Research (Gainesville, FL), and at the Beckman Coul- reaction of asci. For study of the peridium in the spore mat of Pa- ter Genomics Laboratory (Danvers, MA). New sequences are depo- 357 sited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information under model chosen for analyses of the ITS alignment was TPM1uf+I, and accession numbers KT899960-KT899976, KU170603- KU170604, and the 28S alignment was GTR+I+G. Bayesian analyses were run in KU171101-KU171105. MrBayes v. 3.2.3 (HUELSENBECK & RONQUIST, 2001) for 20,000,000 gene- rations in two parallel runs, with trees sampled every 1000th gene- Phylogenetic analysis ration, and the first 25% of sampled trees discarded as burn in. Adequacy of mixing of the chains was checked in Tracer (RAMBAUT & Sequences were edited and assembled in Geneious Pro v 5.6.7 DRUMMOND, 2007). Maximum likelihood analyses were conducted (DRUMMOND et al., 2012). For both ITS and 28S, highly similar se- using RAxML-HPC2 v 8.1.11 (STAMATAKIS, 2014) with a GTR + gamma quences were found through BLAST searches in NCBI. Sequence sets model of nucleotide substitution. 1000 bootstrap iterations were for ITS and 28S were aligned separately in MAFFT v. 6.822 (KATOH & performed with rapid bootstrapping. MAFFT, RAxML, and MrBayes TOH, 2010), and manually optimized in SeAl v. 2.0a11 (RAMBAUT, 2007). analyses were carried out on XSEDE on the CIPRES Science Gateway Phylogenetic analyses included RAxML and Bayesian analyses. Priors v. 3.3 (MILLER et al., 2010). The datasets included 41 taxa and 641 sites for posterior probability were selected using the Aikake Information for the ITS alignment, and 30 taxa and 816 sites for the 28S criterion with the software package jModeltest (POSADA, 2008). The alignment. Plate 1 – Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 28S rDNA sequences of described Pachyphlodes species and undescribed species in the /nemoralis clade. The phylogeny was rooted with two species of Amylascus. Thickened branches indicate >80% ML bootstrap support and posterior probability values greater than 0.95 for Bayesian analysis. Sequences from ascomata (ASC), mitospore mats (MSM) and ecto- mycorrhizal root tips (EcM) are indicated along with GenBank accession numbers and locations of origin. Sequences in bold are K. Egger’s sequences of R.P. Korf’s spore mat (NORMAN & EGGER, 1999) and our sequence of the ascoma of P. pfisteri MES-306. Asterisks denote sequences from holotype specimens. 358 Results lanoxanthus and an undescribed species from North America refer- red to as “species 22”); and the /nemoralis clade, including only un- Of the species analyzed, three monophyletic clades were inferred described species (Pl. 1). The affiliations ofP. marroninus (Healy, from RAxML and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of the 28S locus Bonito & Guevara) Doweld, P. carneus (Harkn.) Doweld, P. conglome- of Pachyphlodes: the /citrinus clade (including P. citrinus (Berk. & ratus (Berk. & Broome) Doweld, and P. oleiferus J. Cabero & J. Pérez Broome) Doweld, P. thysellii (W. Colgan & Trappe) Doweld, and P. vi- are unresolved within Pachyphlodes based on this limited set of taxa rescens (Gilkey) Doweld); the /melanoxanthus clade (including P. me- and the 28S locus. The 28S sequence from Korf’s spore mat from Plate 2 – Midpoint rooted phylogenetic tree based on maximum likelihood analysis of ITS rDNA sequences of taxa in the /nemoralis clade, including Pachyphlodes nemoralis, P. pfisteri, and undescribed species designated with provisional species hypothesis numbers. Thickened branches denote >70% ML bootstrap support and posterior probability values greater than 0.95 for Bayesian analysis. Sequences from as- comata (ASC), from mitospore mats (MSM) and ectomycorrhizal root tips (EcM) are indicated along with GenBank accession numbers and locations of origin.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Peziza and Pezizaceae Inferred from Multiple Nuclear Genes: RPB2, -Tubulin, and LSU Rdna
    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36 (2005) 1–23 www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev Evolutionary relationships of the cup-fungus genus Peziza and Pezizaceae inferred from multiple nuclear genes: RPB2, -tubulin, and LSU rDNA Karen Hansen ¤, Katherine F. LoBuglio, Donald H. PWster Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Received 5 May 2004; revised 17 December 2004 Available online 22 April 2005 Abstract To provide a robust phylogeny of Pezizaceae, partial sequences from two nuclear protein-coding genes, RPB2 (encoding the sec- ond largest subunit of RNA polymerase II) and -tubulin, were obtained from 69 and 72 specimens, respectively, to analyze with nuclear ribosomal large subunit RNA gene sequences (LSU). The three-gene data set includes 32 species of Peziza, and 27 species from nine additional epigeous and six hypogeous (truZe) pezizaceous genera. Analyses of the combined LSU, RPB2, and -tubulin data set using parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian approaches identify 14 Wne-scale lineages within Pezizaceae. Species of Peziza occur in eight of the lineages, spread among other genera of the family, conWrming the non-monophyly of the genus. Although parsimony analyses of the three-gene data set produced a nearly completely resolved strict consensus tree, with increased conWdence, relationships between the lineages are still resolved with mostly weak bootstrap support. Bayesian analyses of the three- gene data, however, show support for several more inclusive clades, mostly congruent with Bayesian analyses of RPB2. No strongly supported incongruence was found among phylogenies derived from the separate LSU, RPB2, and -tubulin data sets. The RPB2 region appeared to be the most informative single gene region based on resolution and clade support, and accounts for the greatest number of potentially parsimony informative characters within the combined data set, followed by the LSU and the -tubulin region.
    [Show full text]
  • Truffle Trouble: What Happened to the Tuberales?
    mycological research 111 (2007) 1075–1099 journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/mycres Truffle trouble: what happened to the Tuberales? Thomas LÆSSØEa,*, Karen HANSENb,y aDepartment of Biology, Copenhagen University, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark bHarvard University Herbaria – Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA article info abstract Article history: An overview of truffles (now considered to belong in the Pezizales, but formerly treated in Received 10 February 2006 the Tuberales) is presented, including a discussion on morphological and biological traits Received in revised form characterizing this form group. Accepted genera are listed and discussed according to a sys- 27 April 2007 tem based on molecular results combined with morphological characters. Phylogenetic Accepted 9 August 2007 analyses of LSU rDNA sequences from 55 hypogeous and 139 epigeous taxa of Pezizales Published online 25 August 2007 were performed to examine their relationships. Parsimony, ML, and Bayesian analyses of Corresponding Editor: Scott LaGreca these sequences indicate that the truffles studied represent at least 15 independent line- ages within the Pezizales. Sequences from hypogeous representatives referred to the fol- Keywords: lowing families and genera were analysed: Discinaceae–Morchellaceae (Fischerula, Hydnotrya, Ascomycota Leucangium), Helvellaceae (Balsamia and Barssia), Pezizaceae (Amylascus, Cazia, Eremiomyces, Helvellaceae Hydnotryopsis, Kaliharituber, Mattirolomyces, Pachyphloeus, Peziza, Ruhlandiella, Stephensia, Hypogeous Terfezia, and Tirmania), Pyronemataceae (Genea, Geopora, Paurocotylis, and Stephensia) and Pezizaceae Tuberaceae (Choiromyces, Dingleya, Labyrinthomyces, Reddellomyces, and Tuber). The different Pezizales types of hypogeous ascomata were found within most major evolutionary lines often nest- Pyronemataceae ing close to apothecial species. Although the Pezizaceae traditionally have been defined mainly on the presence of amyloid reactions of the ascus wall several truffles appear to have lost this character.
    [Show full text]
  • Plicariella Flavovirens Comb. Nov. (Ascomycota, Pezizales)
    Plicariella flavovirens comb. nov. (Ascomycota, Pezizales), une pézize remarquable Nicolas VAN VOOREN Gilbert MOYNE 36 rue de la Garde 12 rue Radieuse F-69005 Lyon F-25000 Besançon [email protected] [email protected] Ascomycete.org, 4 (1) : 11-14. Résumé : Plicariella flavovirens comb. nov. (syn. Scabropezia flavovirens) est une es- Février 2012 pèce remarquable appartenant à un genre de Pezizaceae à spores sphériques, pré- Mise en ligne le 11/02/2012 sentant des similitudes avec les genres Plicaria et Pachyphloeus. Une nouvelle récolte, effectuée durant l’été 2011, permet une description complète et une illus- tration de ce taxon rare. Des précisions taxinomiques et systématiques sont égale- ment données. Mots-clés : Pezizomycetes, Pezizaceae, Scabropezia, Plicaria, Pachyphloeus, taxino- mie. Summary: Plicariella flavovirens comb. nov. (syn. Scabropezia flavovirens) is a re- markable species belonging to a Pezizaceae genus with spherical spores, showing si- milarities with the genera Plicaria and Pachyphloeus. A new collection, made during the summer 2011, enables a complete description and illustration of this rare taxon. Some taxonomical and systematical precisions are also given. Keywords: Pezizomycetes, Pezizaceae, Scabropezia, Plicaria, Pachyphloeus, taxo- nomy. Introduction Taxinomie La découverte, pendant l’été 2011, d’une nouvelle station SPOONER (2001) en étudiant le type de Peziza radula Berk. & de Scabropezia flavovirens (Fuckel) Dissing & Pfister nous a Broome 1846 a démontré sa congénéricité avec le genre permis d’étudier précisément cette espèce et de rectifier Scabropezia Dissing & Pfister. Il proposa dès lors de réhabi- liter le genre Plicariella Rehm — dont le lectotype est P. ra- une erreur de détermination commise sur une précédente dula — faisant ainsi tomber, selon le principe d’antériorité, le récolte (VAN VOOREN, 2006).
    [Show full text]
  • High Diversity and Widespread Occurrence of Mitotic Spore Mats in Ectomycorrhizal Pezizales
    Molecular Ecology (2013) 22, 1717–1732 doi: 10.1111/mec.12135 High diversity and widespread occurrence of mitotic spore mats in ectomycorrhizal Pezizales R. A. HEALY,* M. E. SMITH,† G. M. BONITO,‡ D. H. PFISTER,§ Z. -W. GE,†¶ G. G. GUEVARA,** G. WILLIAMS,‡ K. STAFFORD,‡ L. KUMAR,* T. LEE,* C. HOBART,†† J. TRAPPE,‡‡ R. VILGALYS‡ and D. J. MCLAUGHLIN* *Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA, †Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0680, USA, ‡Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA, §Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02143, USA, ¶Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China, **Instituto Tecnologico de Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas 87010, Mexico, ††University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, ‡‡Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvalis 97331-2106, OR, USA Abstract Fungal mitospores may function as dispersal units and/ or spermatia and thus play a role in distribution and/or mating of species that produce them. Mitospore production in ectomycorrhizal (EcM) Pezizales is rarely reported, but here we document mitospore production by a high diversity of EcM Pezizales on three continents, in both hemi- spheres. We sequenced the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and partial large subunit (LSU) nuclear rDNA from 292 spore mats (visible mitospore clumps) collected in Argentina, Chile, China, Mexico and the USA between 2009 and 2012. We collated spore mat ITS sequences with 105 fruit body and 47 EcM root sequences to generate operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Phylogenetic inferences were made through anal- yses of both molecular data sets.
    [Show full text]
  • Pezizomycetes, Pezizaceae): a New Genus and Species Near the Pachyphlodes–Amylascus Lineage
    See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297661410 Luteoamylascus aculeatus (Pezizomycetes, Pezizaceae): a new genus and species near the Pachyphlodes–Amylascus lineage Article in Mycological Progress · April 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11557-016-1177-9 CITATIONS READS 3 481 4 authors: Julio Cabero Pablo Alvarado ALVALAB 8 PUBLICATIONS 86 CITATIONS 127 PUBLICATIONS 2,219 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Rosanne Healy Gabriel Moreno University of Florida University of Alcalá 158 PUBLICATIONS 1,160 CITATIONS 331 PUBLICATIONS 3,057 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Fungal pathogens in "Weeds and Wilds" View project A comparison of ectomycorrhizal fungi on red oak roots in an arboretum and a forest View project All content following this page was uploaded by Pablo Alvarado on 15 March 2016. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Mycol Progress (2016) 15:33 DOI 10.1007/s11557-016-1177-9 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Luteoamylascus aculeatus (Pezizomycetes, Pezizaceae): a new genus and species near the Pachyphlodes–Amylascus lineage Julio Cabero1 & Pablo Alvarado2 & Rosanne Healy3 & Gabriel Moreno4 Received: 20 November 2015 /Revised: 17 February 2016 /Accepted: 19 February 2016 # German Mycological Society and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The new taxon Luteoamylascus aculeatus de- several distinct genetic lineages with independent and some- scribed in this article is proposed to accommodate two collec- times convergent evolutive trends (Hansen et al. 2005;Læssøe tions of a hypogeous ascomycete from central Spain, charac- and Hansen 2007). The ascomata of some Pezizaceae lineages terized by a tomentose yellowish peridium, labyrinth-like have evolved sequestrate forms to varying degrees.
    [Show full text]
  • Diversity, Ecology, and Conservation of Truffle Fungi in Forests of the Pacific Northwest
    United States Department of Agriculture Diversity, Ecology, and Forest Service Conservation of Truffle Pacific Northwest Research Station Fungi in Forests of the General Technical Report PNW-GTR-772 April 2009 Pacific Northwest James M. Trappe, Randy Molina, Daniel L. Luoma, D E E P R A U R T LT MENT OF AGRICU Efren Cázares, David Pilz, Jane E. Smith, Michael A. Castellano, Steven L. Miller, and Matthew J. Trappe Authors James M. Trappe is a professor, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; he prepared sections on history of truffle science in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), evolution, and diversity of truffles. Randy Molina is a research botanist (retired), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 629 SW Main, Suite 400, Portland, OR 97205; he prepared sections on introductory concepts, mycorrhizal symbiosis and specificity, fungal rarity, management principles, and historical contributions of James Trappe to truffle science in the PNW. Daniel L. Luoma is an assistant professor, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; he prepared sections on community ecology, mycophagy, silvicultural effects, and inventory methods. Efren Cázares is an affiliate faculty member, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; he prepared sections on genera descriptions. David Pilz is an affiliate faculty member, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; he prepared sections on culinary truffles. Jane E. Smith is a research botanist and Michael Castellano is a research forester, U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • If There's One Summary About Itasca, It's That Seven Strangers Became Friends
    12/01/2010 Volume 1 Issue 2 If there's one summary about Itasca, it's that seven strangers became friends. We learned all sorts of useful and interesting things about plants from the various talks and mini-lab sessions we attended: from Dan Voytas, that high-precision zinc nucleotides are available that can modify specific nucleotides of a plant genome, from David Marks, about important fluorescent proteins and imaging technology to study cellular and sub- cellular behaviors of native or transgenic proteins, as well as many other details of faculty and student research. We also learned other important things: that when studying signaling pathways, it is very helpful to study pancake making; that cutting the same mushroom open again and again to watch it turn blue in an oxidation reaction is endlessly mesmerizing; that the floating bog peat at Itasca tastes rather grassy, and that Gail The 2010 incoming class at their Itasca Orientation clockwise from left: is disturbingly good at (the card game) Mohamed Yakub, Rachel Hillmer, John Fankhauser, John Vincent, Apples to Apples. We returned home with Kevin Dorn, Xin Li, Amber Eule-Nashoba a better knowledge of wild fungi, information about how to get started with Contents MSI computing resources, and the Director’s notes friendships and resources that will help us walk confidently, and hopefully Meet the 2010 Students efficiently, through our graduate years. Student Achievements Phytograds -Rachel Hillmer Research:Students Research:Faculty Word from the Alumni Volume 1 Issue 2 Director’s notes -Jane Glazebrook I am happy to introduce the second issue of the PBS Medium.
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix 1—Reviewers and Contributers
    Appendix 1—Reviewers and Contributers The following individuals provided assistance, information, and review of this report. It could not have been completed without their cooperation. USDA APHIS-PPQ: D. Alontaga*, T. Culliney*, H. Meissner*, L. Newton* Hawai’i Department of Agriculture, Plant Industry Division: B. Kumashiro, C. Okada, N. Reimer University of Hawai’i: F. Brooks*, H. Spafford* USDA Forest Service: K. Britton*, S. Frankel* USDI Fish and Wildlife Service: D. Cravahlo Forest Research Institute Malaysia: S. Lee* 1 U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey: L. Loope* Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife: R. Hauff New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries: S. Clark* Hawai’i Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species: C. Martin* *Provided review comments on the draft report. 2 Appendix 2—Scientific Authorities for Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 5 Hypothenemus obscurus (F.) Kallitaxila granulatae (Stål) Insects Klambothrips myopori Mound & Morris Charaxes khasianus Butler Monema flavescens Walker Acizzia uncatoides (Ferris & Klyver) Neopithecops zalmora Butler Actias luna L. Nesopedronia dura Beardsley Adoretus sinicus (Burmeister) Nesopedronia hawaiiensis Beardsley Callosamia promethea Drury Odontata dorsalis (Thunberg) Ceresium unicolor White Plagithmysus bilineatus Sharp Chlorophorus annularis (F.) Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim Citheronia regalis Fabricus Scotorythra paludicola Butler Clastoptera xanthocephala Germ. Sophonia rufofascia Kuoh & Kuoh Cnephasia jactatana Walker Specularis
    [Show full text]
  • Fungus Consumption (Mycophagy) by Small Animals
    1757 Robert Fogel Forest Science Department Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon 97331 and James M. Trappe Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station a Forestry Sciences Laboratory Corvallis, Oregon 97330 a Fungus Consumption (Mycophagy) by Small Animals Abstract A review of the natural history literature of small mammal feeding habits, based on many for- tuitous field observations, some analysis of stomach contents, and a few feeding experiments, shows that diverse animals feed on similarly diverse fungi. The interdependence of animals and fungi has evolved to a high degree in some cases, e.g., the loss of alternative spore dispersal mechanisms by some fungi and the strong reliance of some mammals on fungi as a primary food. Consequently, adaptation for mycophagy and the effects on mycophagy of habitat, fungal toxicity, and the food value of fungi have implications in the interpretation of ecosystem structure and function. Introduction Truffles and other hypogeous fungi occupy a highly specialized, protected niche as subterranean-fruiting symbionts with roots of higher plants. Such fungi depend on mammal • and invertebrate mycophagy for spore dispersal. These and other fungi, in turn, are important in the diet of many animals and in some cases comprise the major food source. These interrelationships between fungi and animals engender many questions rele- vant to the life histories and ecosystemadc roles of both. For example, which animals depend largely on fungi for food, for water, or for vitamins? What are the behavioral
    [Show full text]
  • Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition and Decomposer Fungi: Altered Composition and Function Fosters Greater Soil Carbon Storage
    Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition and Decomposer Fungi: Altered Composition and Function Fosters Greater Soil Carbon Storage by Elizabeth Mae Entwistle A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Natural Resources and Environment) in the University of Michigan 2016 Doctoral committee: Professor Donald R. Zak, Chair Associate Professor Gregory Dick Associate Professor Inés Ibáñez Associate Professor Timothy Y. James ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This research was funded with support from the Department of Energy’s Office of Biology & Environmental Research and the National Science Foundation Long-term Research in Environmental Biology program. I also wish to acknowledge the Rackham Graduate School, the School of Natural Resources & Environment, and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program for their support of my research. There are many people whose contributions were essential to making this research and my progress towards completing my PhD possible. First and foremost, I’d like to thank my advisor, Dr. Don Zak, for his immense support and mentorship throughout my years as a graduate student. I am grateful for the opportunities I have had to grow as a scientist and also for his unwavering belief in me over my years as a graduate student in his lab. I’d also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Tim James, Dr. Inés Ibáñez, and Dr. Greg Dick, for their time, thoughtfulness, and assistance over the course of my degree. There are many current and former Zak lab members to whom I owe a debt of gratitude. Rima Upchurch has had a hand in making this research possible at every step in the process; her invaluable and immense assistance over the years, with everything from setting up a field experiment by flashlight to helping me troubleshoot complicated bioinformatics problems, is appreciated beyond measure.
    [Show full text]
  • A First Checklist of Macrofungi for South Africa
    A peer-reviewed open-access journal MycoKeys 63: 1–48 (2020) Macrofungal checklist for South Africa 1 doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.63.36566 CHECKLIST MycoKeys http://mycokeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A first checklist of macrofungi for South Africa Tonjock Rosemary Kinge1,2, Gary Goldman3, Adriaana Jacobs4, George Gatere Ndiritu5, Marieka Gryzenhout1 1 Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, PO Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, Re- public of South Africa 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Bamenda, P.O. Box 39, Bambili, North West Region, Cameroon 3 MushroomFundi, Cape Town, South Africa 4 National Collection of Fungi, Mycology Unit, Plant Health and Protection, Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa 5 School of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Karatina University, P.O. Box 1957, Karatina 10101, Kenya Corresponding author: Marieka Gryzenhout ([email protected]) Academic editor: G. Rambold | Received 27 May 2019 | Accepted 7 November 2019 | Published 5 February 2020 Citation: Kinge TR, Goldman G, Jacobs A, Ndiritu GG, Gryzenhout M (2020) A first checklist of macrofungi for South Africa. MycoKeys 63: 1–48. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.63.36566 Abstract Macrofungi are considered as organisms that form large fruiting bodies above or below the ground that are visible without the aid of a microscope. These fungi include most basidiomycetes and a small number of ascomycetes. Macrofungi have different ecological roles and uses, where some are edible, medicinal, poisonous, decomposers, saprotrophs, predators and pathogens, and they are often used for innovative biotechnological, medicinal and ecological applications. However, comprehensive checklists, and compi- lations on the diversity and distribution of mushrooms are lacking for South Africa, which makes regula- tion, conservation and inclusion in national biodiversity initiatives difficult.
    [Show full text]
  • Folia Cryptogamica Estonica Ebook
    Folia Cryptog. Estonica, Fasc. 42: 1–9 (2006) Observations on Mycobiota in Estonia Andreas Bresinsky Institut für Botanik, Universität Regensburg, private address: Am Katzenbichel 22, D-93161 Sinzing, OT Viehhausen, Germany. E-mail:[email protected] Abstract: Observations on Estonian fungi by occasion of several fi eld trips resulted in some noteworthy records.Melanoleuca pallidicutis is described as a new speciesspecies.. Clitocybe concava, Coprinus romagnesianus, Cortinarius stillatius, Leucopaxillus cutefractus and Paxillus vernalis are recorded for the fi rst time in Estonia. A list of such fungi not reported on the island of Ruhnu so far or which have been observed on other host plants than indicated in former studies is appended. Kokkuvõte: Vaatlusi Eesti seenestikust. Antud töös kirjeldatakse uus liik Melanoleuca pallidicutis. Eestile registreeriti uued liigid: Clitocybe concava, Coprinus romagnesianus, Cortinarius stillatius, Leucopaxillus cutefractus ja Paxillus vernalis. Ruhnu saare seenestiku nimekirjas tuuakse ära saarele uued liigid. INTRODUCTION colour quotation is accomplished by adding to By occasion of several field trips through the colour sample 5 C 5 in Methuen the fi lter Y different parts of Estonia some collections of 05 provided in the Chromotaxia of Locquin. rare or noteworthy fungi have been made by the author of the present paper. The Mycobiota NOTEWORTHY SPECIES of Estonia are quite well investigated thanks to the efforts of the team of mycologists working MELANOLEUCA PALLIDICUTIS Bresinsky spec. nova in Tartu. The published checklists of Estonian Whereas the genus Melanoleuca appears to Mycobiota (Järva & Parmasto, 1980; Järva & be very well defi ned and may easily be recognized al., 1998) were used for information about the and identifi ed (mostly already in the fi eld) the novelty of own observations.
    [Show full text]