Reconstruction of the phylogeny of the filamentous fungal order Mortierellales (Zygomycetes): A comprehensive taxonomical revision

被孢霉目的成员构成接合菌纲真菌的显著类群。这些真菌中的一些是脂质积累生物体（如高山被孢霉（Mortierella alpina）），其作为多不饱和脂肪酸（如花生四烯酸）的工业生产者具有巨大的生物技术重要性。其他被孢霉属物种被认为是不同有机化合物的生物转化剂。本项目的目的是使用不同的显微镜，生理，分子和生物信息学的方法，如电子显微镜和DNA序列分析，这一真菌订单的一个完整的系统发育的修订。这组丝状真菌显示出极高的生态和生理多样性;对所有类型菌株进行详细分析，可以为合作伙伴和科学界提供具有科学和/或实际意义的重要新信息。该项目可能是建立一个研究实验室和菌株收集网络的第一步，该网络致力于这些或类似的生物体，它可以为欧盟项目的接合菌真菌欧洲研究小组的联合研究应用打开大门。

Members of the order Mortierellales constitute a remarkable group of the Zygomycetes fungi. Some of these fungi are lipid accumulating organisms (such as Mortierella alpina) having great biotechnological importance as industrial producers of polyunsaturated fatty acids, like arachidonic acid. Other Mortierella species are known as biotransforming agents of different organic compounds. The aim of the present project is a complete phylogenetic revision of this fungal order using different microscopic, physiological, molecular and bioinformatic approaches, such as electron microscopy and DNA sequence analysis. This group of filamentous fungi shows extremely high ecological and physiological diversity; a detailed analysis involving all type strains could provide important new information of scientific and/or practical importance for both the partners and the scientific community. The project could be the first step towards the building up a network of research labs and strain collections working on these or similar organisms and it can open the door to a joint research application of the European research groups working on Zygomycetes fungi for an EU project.