The phylogenetic placement of Ostropales within Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota) revisited

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2007
Authors:H. T. Lumbsch, Schmitt, I., Lücking, R., Wiklund, E., Wedin, M.
Journal:Mycological Research
Volume:111
Pagination:257-267
ISSN:0953-7562
Keywords:Ascomycota, Fungal Proteins, Genes, Fungal, Phylogeny, Species Specificity
Abstract:

Results of molecular studies regarding the phylogenetic placement of the order Ostropales and related taxa within Lecanoromycetes were thus far inconclusive. Some analyses placed the order as sister to the rest of Lecanoromycetes, while others inferred a position nested within Lecanoromycetes. We assembled a data set of 101 species including sequences from nuLSU rDNA, mtSSU rDNA, and the nuclear protein-coding RPB1 for each species to examine the cause of incongruencies in previously published phylogenies. MP, minimum evolution, and Bayesian analyses were performed using the combined three-region data set and the single-gene data sets. The position of Ostropales nested in Lecanoromycetes is confirmed in all single-gene and concatenated analyses, and a placement as sister to the rest of Lecanoromycetes is significantly rejected using two independent methods of alternative topology testing. Acarosporales and related taxa (Acarosporaceae group) are basal in Lecanoromycetes. However, if the these basal taxa are excluded from the analyses, Ostropales appear to be sister to the rest of Lecanoromycetes, suggesting different ingroup rooting as the cause for deviating topologies in previously published phylogenies.

DOI:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.01.006
Citation Key:4186
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