Author, as appears in the article.: Torres-Garcia, D; Gené, J; García, D; Cano-Lira, JF
Department: Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques
URV's Author/s: Cano Lira, José Francisco / GARCIA JORBA, DAVID / García Sánchez, Dania / Gené Díaz, Josepa / Torres Garcia, Daniel
Keywords: Cycloheximide-resistant fungi Dna Fluvial sediments Fungal diversity Genus arachnomyces Internal transcribed spacer Keratinolytic fungi Keratinophilic fungi Molecular phylogeny Multiple sequence alignment Onygenales Phylogeny Rdna sequence Sp-nov Taxonomy
Abstract: During the course of a project investigating culturable Ascomycota diversity from freshwater sediments in Spain, we isolated 63 strains of cycloheximide-resistant fungi belonging to the order Onygenales. These well-known ascomycetes, able to infect both humans and animals, are commonly found in terrestrial habitats, colonizing keratin-rich soils or dung. Little is known about their diversity in aquatic environments. Combining morphological features and sequence analyses of the ITS and LSU regions of the nrDNA, we identified 14 species distributed in the genera Aphanoascus, Arachniotus, Arthroderma, Arthropsis, Emmonsiellopsis, Gymnoascoideus, Leucothecium, Malbranchea, and Myriodontium. Furthermore, three novel species for the genus Malbranchea are proposed as M. echinulata sp. nov., M. irregularis sp. nov., and M. sinuata sp. nov. The new genera Albidomyces and Neoarthropsis are introduced based on Arachniotus albicans and Arthropsis hispanica, respectively. Neoarthropsis sexualis sp. nov. is characterized and differentiated morphologically from its counterpart by the production of a sexual morph. The novel family Neoarthropsidaceae is proposed for the genera Albidomyes, Apinisia, Arachnotheca, Myriodontium, and Neoarthropsis, based on their phylogenetic relationships and phenotypic and ecological traits. Pseudoamaurascopsis gen. nov. is introduced to accommodate P. spiralis sp. nov., a fungus with unclear taxonomy related to Amaurascopsis and Polytolypa. We traced the ecology and global distribution of the novel fungi through ITS environmental sequences deposited in the GlobalFungi database. Studying the fungal diversity from freshwater sediments not only contributes to filling gaps in the relationships and taxonomy of the Ascomycota but also gives us insights into the fungal community that might represent a putative risk to the health of animals and humans inhabiting or transient in aquatic environments.
Thematic Areas: Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas iii Ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics Farmacia Microbiology Microbiology (medical) Mycology Plant science
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: daniel.torres@estudiants.urv.cat daniel.torres@estudiants.urv.cat dania.garcias@urv.cat josepa.gene@urv.cat jose.cano@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-2397-1646 0000-0001-6195-9299 0000-0003-4495-4394
Record's date: 2024-05-23
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/9/12/1129
Papper original source: J Fungi (Basel). 9 (12): 1129-
APA: Torres-Garcia, D; Gené, J; García, D; Cano-Lira, JF (2023). Insights into Some Onygenalean Fungi from Freshwater Sediments in Spain and Description of Novel Taxa. J Fungi (Basel), 9(12), 1129-. DOI: 10.3390/jof9121129
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.3390/jof9121129
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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