Phialide arrangement and character evolution in the helotialean anamorph genera Cadophora and Phialocephala
Phialide arrangement and character evolution in the helotialean anamorph genera Cadophora and Phialocephala
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10.3852/11-059
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发表时间:
2012-03-01
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2.8
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Currah, Randolph S.
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Day, Melissa J.;Hall, Jocelyn C.;Currah, Randolph S.
The dematiaceous hyphomycete genera Cadophora and Phialocephala, are anamorphs associated with mollisioid inoperculate discomycetes (Helotiales) and are delineated based on the complexity of the phialide arrangement with members of Cadophora producing solitary phialides and species of Phialocephata producing complex heads of multiple phiatides. A third phylogenetically related taxon, Leptodoniidium orchidicola, produces mostly indehiscent conidia that may represent non-functional phialides. Morphological characteristics of both sexual and asexual states of these and other fungi in a focal group of helotialean taxa were re-examined, in light of relationships shown by molecular phylogenetic analyses of rDNA ITS sequences, to determine the evolutionary significance of phialide arrangement. The focal species of Phialocephala formed a monophylefic clade, while five of six species of Cadophara including the type were in a separate clade along with L. archidicola. C. firdandica was placed in a third clade with species of Mehniornyces and Rhizoscyphas. We hypothesized that the ancestral state for species in Cadophora and Phialocephata is the production of sclerodurn-like heads of multiple phialides, which has been retained in most species assignable to Phialocephata. A reduction to solitary phialides occurred in the lineage leading to the clade containing most of the Cadophora species. Two possible reductions to non-functional phialides were identified: one in the Meliniomyces-C. finlandica-Chloridium pancisporum clade and another in the L. orchidicola and Mollisia "rhizophila" clade. A reversion to increased phialide complexity might have occurred in the clade containing C. fintandica and Ch. paucisporum. Our data and analyses also show a previously unrecognized relationship between teleomorph and anamorph morphology in that Mollisia species with smaller asci would be expected to have Phialocephata states while those with larger asci would be expected to have Cadophora states. Based on morphology and phylogenetic placement, L. orchidicola and C. hiberna are transferred respectively to Cadophom and Phialocephata.