Schistonchus hirtus n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of Ficus hirta in China

Nematology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Weimin Ye ◽  
Robin M. Giblin-Davis ◽  
Changhui Li ◽  
Zhijian Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Ficus Hirta ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna

Abstract A nematode recovered from syconia of Ficus hirta from Guangzhou, P. R. China, during a survey of nematode biodiversity from 2007 to 2009, is described herein as Schistonchus hirtus n. sp. and is differentiated by a combination of morphological characters, including excretory pore (EP) located near the metacorpus, a short post-uterine sac (PUS) (0.5 vulval body diam. (VBD) long), rose thorn-shaped spicules, amoeboid sperm, absence of gubernaculum, three pairs of subventral papillae on the male tail, host-Ficus and host-wasp species and DNA sequence data. Morphologically, S. hirtus n. sp. is close to S. centerae, S. altermacrophylla, S. aureus, S. laevigatus and S. virens based upon the length of the PUS (about 0.5 VBD long). However, the relative position of the EP in S. hirtus n. sp. is very different from these species (near metacorpus vs near head). With regard to the EP character, S. hirtus n. sp. is very similar to S. macrophylla, S. guangzhouensis and S. caprifici where the EP is at metacorpus level. However, S. hirtus n. sp. differs from S. macrophylla and S. guangzhouensis by possessing a shorter PUS and smaller spicules, and differs from S. caprifici by a shorter female stylet and smaller spicules. Schistonchus hirtus n. sp. was easily differentiated from other sequenced species by the proportion of parsimony informative changes in the partial small subunit rRNA gene (SSU) and D2/D3 expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA gene (LSU). Phylogenetic analysis with SSU sequences suggests that S. hirtus n. sp. is in a highly supported monophyletic clade with Aphelenchoides and Laimaphelenchus and is polyphyletic to other sequenced Schistonchus species. With LSU sequence data, it forms a clade with S. caprifici and they appear polyphyletic relative to S. guangzhouensis, S. centerae, S. aureus, S. laevigatus and S. virens.

Description of Schistonchus superbus n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of Ficus superba in China

Nematology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 771-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Weimin Ye ◽  
Changhui Li ◽  
Xinrong Wang ◽  
Zhijian Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna ◽  
Nematode Biodiversity

A new nematode species was recovered from the syconia of Ficus superba from the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, during a survey of nematode biodiversity from 2007 to 2012. It is described herein as Schistonchus superbus n. sp. and is characterised by possessing the combined characters of a short post-uterine sac and digitate tail without a mucron in females, excretory pore located near the metacorpus, amoeboid sperm, a unique wedge-shaped male tail with variable tip and two pairs of subventral papillae, absence of a gubernaculum and possession of sickle-shaped spicules without a cucullus and with a thorn-shaped rostrum. Schistonchus superbus n. sp. is typologically differentiated from all other described species in this genus by the possession of a wedge-shaped tail in males and a digitate tail without mucron in females. Schistonchus superbus n. sp. was easily differentiated from other sequenced species by the partial small subunit rRNA gene (SSU), D3 expansion segment of the large subunit rRNA gene (LSU) and mitochondrial DNA subunit I (mtCOI). Phylogenetic analysis with partial SSU sequences suggests that S. superbus n. sp. is sister to S. caprifici and S. hirtus, and is a polyphyletic relative to other Schistonchus species that have been sequenced. Based on inferences using LSU D3 sequence data, S. superbus n. sp. is in a well-supported monophyletic clade with S. caprifici, S. hirtus and S. macrophylla.

Ficophagus auriculatae n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of the Ficus auriculata-complex in China

Nematology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 497-508
Author(s):  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Jianfeng Huang ◽  
Dayuan Zhang ◽  
Wensheng Zeng ◽  
Rongrong Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Subunit ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Male Tail ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna Gene ◽  
Tail Tip ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna

Summary A new nematode species was recovered from the syconia of Ficus auriculata-complex, including F. auriculata, F. oligodon and F. hainanensis, from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China. It is described herein as Ficophagus auriculatae n. sp. and is characterised by possessing the combined characters of a short post-uterine sac, excretory pore located between the metacorpus and the stylet basal knobs, testis multi-reflexed, amoeboid sperm, three pairs of subventral papillae on male tail, rounded male tail tip without mucron, absence of gubernaculum (= apophysis) and sickle-shaped spicules with terminal cucullus. Ficophagus auriculatae n. sp. was differentiated from other sequenced species by the partial small subunit rRNA gene and D2-D3 expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA gene. Phylogenetic analysis with the above-mentioned sequences suggested that F. auriculatae n. sp. has a closer relationship with F. fleckeri in the same highly supported monophyletic clade than with the other sequenced Ficophagus and Schistonchus sensu lato species.

Description of Schistonchus microcarpus n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of Ficus microcarpa in China

Nematology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Weimin Ye ◽  
Robin Giblin-Davis ◽  
Changhui Li ◽  
Shinian Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Excretory Pore ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Male Tail ◽  
Mtdna Coi ◽  
Ficus Microcarpa ◽  
Tail Tip

AbstractSchistonchus microcarpus n. sp. was recovered from the syconia of Ficus microcarpa from Shenzhen and Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, during a survey of nematode biodiversity from 2007 to 2009. It is characterised by possessing the combined characters of a short post-uterine sac (PUS) (3-11 μm or <0.4 vulval body diam. (VBD) long), excretory pore located just posterior to the head but anterior to the conus level of the stylet, prominent amphids, three pairs of subventral papillae on the male tail (one pair adcloacal, one pair halfway between cloaca and tail terminus, and one pair near tail tip), unique recurved and sickleshaped spicules with finely rounded tip with cucullus, amoeboid sperm, and rounded male tail tip with or without mucron. Schistonchus microcarpus n. sp. is morphologically differentiated from all other described species in this genus by the possession of a spicule with a cucullus on the tip. Schistonchus microcarpus n. sp. was easily differentiated from other sequenced species by the partial small subunit rRNA gene (SSU) and D3 expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA gene (LSU). Phylogenetic analysis with partial SSU sequences suggests that S. microcarpus n. sp. is in a highly supported monophyletic clade with sequenced Schistonchus species except for S. hirtus. Based upon inferences using D3 LSU sequence data, it forms a clade with an undescribed species of Schistonchus ex F. benjamini from Australia and is part of a larger clade of Schistonchus that mostly share the character of an anteriorly placed excretory pore. Sequences of partial mtDNA COI (590 bp) from males of S. microcarpus n. sp. with and without a mucronate tail tip were identical, proving that these two morphotypes are conspecific.

Molecular and morphological characterisation of two reproductively isolated species with mirror-image anatomy (Nematoda: Cephalobidae)

Nematology ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul De Ley ◽  
Marie-Anne Felix ◽  
Linda Frisse ◽  
Steven Nadler ◽  
Paul Sternberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Separate Species ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
The Right ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna

Abstract Detailed descriptions are given of the amphimictic nematode strains PS1158, PS2052 and PS2160, which are unusual in that they only differ in predominant body handedness. Although these strains are morphologically identical in all other respects, published reproductive data and new DNA sequence data of the D2/D3 region of the large subunit rRNA gene show that they do represent two separate species. On the basis of comparison with type material, the left-handed strains PS1158 and PS2160 are identified as Acrobeloides bodenheimeri, and the right-handed strain PS2052 as A. camberenensis, which is re-instated as a valid species. A. bodenheimeri and its relatives exhibit various types of diagnostic and taxonomic problems at species level, and it is shown that D2/D3 sequence data provide an important new diagnostic tool for addressing these problems. Phylogenetic analysis shows that two right-handed parthenogenetic strains identified as A. maximus represent a third species which is more closely related to A. camberenensis than to A. bodenheimeri. Caracterisation morphologique et moleculaire de deux especes intersteriles de chiralite contraire (Nematoda: Cephalobidae) - Une description detaillee est donnee des souches amphimictiques de nematodes PS1158, PS2052 et PS2160, souches inhabituelles car differant par la chiralite du corps. Bien que ces souches soient morphologiquement identiques sous tout autre rapport, les resultats publies de tests de croisement et de nouvelles donnees concernant la sequence d'ADN de la region D2/D3 du gene de la grosse sous-unite d'ARN ribosomal montrent qu'elles representent en fait deux especes distinctes. Se fondant sur une comparaison avec le materiel type, les souches sinistres PS1158 et PS2160 sont identifiees comme Acrobeloides bodenheimeri et la souche dextre PS2052 comme A. camberenensis, ainsi retabli comme espece valide. A. bodenheimeri et les especes proches posent differents problemes diagnostiques et taxinomiques au niveau specifique, et nous montrons que les donnees de sequence D2/D3 fournissent un nouvel outil diagnostique important pour aborder ces problemes. L'analyse phylogenetique montre que deux souches parthenogenetiques dextres identifiees comme A. maximus representent en fait une troisieme espece, plus proche de A. camberenensis que de A. bodenheimeri.

Phylogeny of mitosporic entomopathogenic fungi: Is the genus Paecilomyces polyphyletic?

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 813-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Oborník ◽  
Milan Jirku ◽  
David Dolezel
Keyword(s):  
Ribosomal Rna ◽  
Entomopathogenic Fungi ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Verticillium Lecanii ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna ◽  
Rna Genes

We analyzed sequences of the divergent domain at the 5' end of the large subunit rRNA gene from the mitosporic entomopathogenic fungi Paecilomyces sp., Paecilomyces fumosoroseus, Paecilomyces farinosus, Paecilomyces lilacinus, Verticillium lecanii, Verticillium psalliotae, Beauveria bassiana, Aschersonia sp., Aschersonia placenta, ascomycetous Cordyceps sp., and Cordyceps militaris. Phylogenetic analysis showed P. fumosorseus as the best characterized out of the analyzed species with the B. bassiana clade as its sister group. Two of the P. farinosus isolates were invariably placed within the Verticillium cluster, which also contained C. militaris. The only analyzed P. lilacinus isolate appeared on the root of the hyphomycetous fungi and was characterized as the most distinct from all the hyphomycetous fungi tested. Polyphyly of the genus Paecilomyces was well supported by the Kishino-Hasegawa test. In all trees based on the small subunit rRNA gene sequences obtained from the GenBank(tm), V. lecanii, V. psalliotae, P. fumosoroseus, P. tenuipes and B. bassiana form, together with that of C. militaris, the best supported cluster in the tree. The rest of Cordyceps spp. constitute a distinct clade. Phylogenetic relationships derived from both tested DNA regions show polyphyly of the genus Paecilomyces and close relationships among entomopathogenic species of the genera Verticillium, Paecilomyces, and Beauveria.Key words: Paecilomyces, Verticillium, Beauveria, Aschersonia, entomopathogenic fungi, molecular phylogeny, ribosomal RNA genes.

scholarly journals Two novel Saccharomycopsis species isolated from black olive brines and a tropical plant. Description of Saccharomycopsis olivae f. a., sp. nov. and Saccharomycopsis guyanensis f. a., sp. nov. Reassignment of Candida amapae to Saccharomycopsis amapae f. a., comb. nov., Candida lassenensis to Saccharomycopsis lassenensis f. a., comb. nov. and Arthroascus babjevae to Saccharomycopsis babjevae f. a., comb. nov.

2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (Pt_6) ◽  
pp. 2169-2175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noémie Jacques ◽  
Christelle Louis-Mondesir ◽  
Monika Coton ◽  
Emmanuel Coton ◽  
Serge Casaregola
Keyword(s):  
Type Strain ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Tropical Plant ◽  
Black Olive ◽  
Novel Taxa ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna

Three yeast strains related to members of the genus Saccharomycopsis were isolated. One strain (CLIB 1310) was isolated from olive brines of fermented black olives in France and two strains (CLIB 1454 and CLIB 1455) were isolated from a plant in French Guiana. Sequence analyses based on the D1/D2 domains of the nuclear large subunit rRNA gene, small-subunit rRNA gene and partial EF-1α gene revealed that the strains represented two novel taxa exhibiting extensive sequence divergence from the previously described species of the genus Saccharomycopsis. Two novel species are described to accommodate these newly isolated strains: Saccharomycopsis olivae sp. nov. (type strain CLIB 1310T = CBS 12701T) and Saccharomycopsis guyanensis sp. nov. (type strain CLIB 1455T = CBS 12914T and strain CLIB 1454). Both strains CLIB 1454 and CLIB 1455T displayed identical sequences but differed in their ability to metabolize sorbitol and in their morphology on agar medium. Candida amapae, Candida lassensensis and Arthroascus babjevae belonging to the Saccharomycopsis clade, are reassigned to Saccharomycopsis as novel combinations.

Schistonchus fistulosus n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae) associated with Ficus fistulosa in China

Nematology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 879-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Weimin Ye ◽  
Xinrong Wang ◽  
Zhijian Du ◽  
Robin M. Giblin-Davis
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Monophyletic Clade ◽  
Male Tail ◽  
Tail Tip

A new nematode species was recovered from syconia of Ficus fistulosa from the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, during a survey of nematode biodiversity from 2007 to 2012. It is described herein as Schistonchus fistulosus n. sp. and is typologically characterised by possessing the combined characters of a long post-uterine sac, excretory pore located near the metacorpus, amoeboid sperm, three pairs of subventral papillae on the male tail, a mucron on the male tail tip, absence of a gubernaculum and possession of ox-horn-shaped spicules without a terminal cucullus and with a short, broad and bluntly rounded rostrum. Schistonchus fistulosus n. sp. was easily differentiated from other sequenced species by the partial small subunit rRNA gene (SSU) and D3 expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA gene (LSU). Phylogenetic analysis with partial SSU sequences suggests that S. fistulosus n. sp. has a closer relationship with S. guangzhouensis and S. baculum in the same highly supported monophyletic clade than to the other sequenced Schistonchus species. Based upon inferences using LSU D3 sequence data, it is also in a well-supported monophyletic clade with S. guangzhouensis and S. baculum.

Srinivasania Sundarbanensis gen. et sp. nov., a New Agglutinated Benthic Foraminifer from the World's Largest Mangrove Ecoregion, the Sundarbans, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Tushar Kaushik ◽  
Anupam Ghosh ◽  
Thirumalai M ◽  
Ishita Das
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
The Sundarbans

ABSTRACT We describe Srinivasania sundarbanensis n. gen. et sp. nov., a multichambered textulariid foraminifer from the world's largest mangrove ecosystem, the Sundarbans, India. The new genus has an agglutinated wall structure, planispirally coiled test, and a single high-arched equatorial aperture located at the base of the final chamber with a narrow, agglutinated lip and with morphological similarity to the genera GobbettiaDhillon, 1968, and HaplophragmoidesCushman, 1910. Phylogenetic analyses, using partial small subunit rRNA gene, partial large subunit rRNA gene, and concatenated (LSU+SSU) sequence data clearly show the placement of this new taxon among other textulariid foraminifers, distant from all other genera in a strongly supported clade. In the new genus and species, the test is discoidal, measuring 100 to 350 µm in diameter with six to seven chambers in the final whorl. Elemental characterization (SEM-EDS) of the agglutinated test wall reveals a preference for quartz grains (SiO2) to construct its test. It is a common species and is presently known only from the northern marsh environments of Indian Sundarbans.

Ficophagus curtipes n. sp. (Nematoda: Aphelenchoididae), an associate of Ficus curtipes in China

Nematology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 1091-1101
Author(s):  
Dayuan Zhang ◽  
Wensheng Zeng ◽  
Jianfeng Huang ◽  
Yongsan Zeng ◽  
Yanqiong Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Nematode Species ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Small Subunit Rrna ◽  
Male Tail ◽  
Tail Tip ◽  
Large Subunit Rrna

Summary A new nematode species was recovered from the syconia of Ficus curtipes from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China. It is described herein as Ficophagus curtipes n. sp. and is differentiated from all currently described species in the genus by the possession of a spicule with a ventrally recurved tip (terminal barb). It is further characterised by possessing a short post-uterine sac, an ovoid spermatheca, presence of crustaformeria, excretory pore located near the head, amoeboid sperm, three pairs of subventral papillae on the male tail, rounded male tail tip without mucron, rose-thorn-shaped spicules without cucullus and absence of gubernaculum (= apophysis). Ficophagus curtipes n. sp. was differentiated from other sequenced species by the partial small subunit rRNA gene and D2-D3 expansion segments of the large subunit rRNA gene. Phylogenetic analyses suggested that F. curtipes n. sp. has a closer relationship with F. benjamina and F. microcarpus in the same highly supported monophyletic clade than to the other sequenced Ficophagus and Schistonchus s.l. species.

scholarly journals Freshwater ascomycetes: Lophiostoma vaginatispora comb. nov. (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales, Lophiostomaceae) based on morphological and molecular data

Phytotaxa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 176 (1) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huang Zhang ◽  
Kevin D. Hyde ◽  
Yongchang Zhao ◽  
ERIC H.C. MCKENZIE ◽  
Dequn Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Dna Sequence ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Small Subunit ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Morphological And Molecular Data

Lophiostoma vaginatispora comb. nov. was collected from submerged wood in a stream in Northern Thailand. The species is characteristic by immersed to erumpent ascomata, with slot-like ostioles, with long, branched and numerous periphyses, an unequally thick peridium where the upper part is narrower than the lower part, and 1-septate, narrowly fusiform ascospores with a thick surrounding papilionaceous sheath. The placement of this species in Lophiostoma is based on morphological characters and phylogenetic analyses of the partial nuclear ribosomal 18S small subunit and 28S large subunit DNA sequence data. Lophiostoma vaginatispora is distinguished from other Lophiostoma species in possessing a wide papilionaceous sheath.

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