scholarly journals Confirmation of species independence and affinity of Musa huangbaioa (Musaceae) – rare endemic banana of China – according to the molecular phylogenetic data

Turczaninowia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Elena M. Arnautova ◽  
Nikolay N. Nosov ◽  
Alexander I. Shmakov ◽  
Lei Shi ◽  
X.-Ch. Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Central America ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Chinese Journal ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Irregular Form ◽  
Rare Endemic ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

In this article, we research the phylogenetic position of the rare endemic banana, Musa huangbaioa, which was described only in Chinese journal in 1987. This banana was found at the foot of the Mount Emei in Sichuan Province and has remarkable morphological features, e. g., undulated petiole margins, ribbed fruits and irregular form of the seeds, which are rather unusual in the genus and distinguish it from all other species. In addition, due to its uncertain affinity, we researched the position of M. huangbaioa in the Musaceae family with the aid of molecular phylogenetic analysis of two marker sequences, nrITS and trnL–trnF. We found that this species belongs to the large and rather complicated group of Chinese bananas, M. basjoo–M. itinerans clade. According to the ITS data, M. huangbaioa is monophyletic with one M. basjoo specimen that was cultivated in Central America. Probably, this fact represents that this species can be modern hybrid with one of the genomes inherited from M. basjoo s. l. The whole group M. basjoo–M. itinerans, which M. huangbaioa belongs to, is well separated within the sect. Musa and could be prone to frequent hybridizations in the natural environment; it requires an additional research for more precise differentiation of the group.

On the placement of Coleanthus subtilis and the subtribe Coleanthinae within Poaceae by new molecular phylogenetic data

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 468 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-274
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER A. GNUTIKOV ◽  
NIKOLAI N. NOSOV ◽  
ELIZAVETA O. PUNINA ◽  
NINA S. PROBATOVA ◽  
ALEXANDER V. RODIONOV
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Chloroplast Genes ◽  
Monophyletic Clade ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

Phylogenetic position of the unique grass genus Coleanthus within the tribe Poeae s. str. is discussed based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of the marker sequences, ITS and trnL–trnF. Moreover, taxa more or less related to Coleanthus were involved in our study for the maximal accuracy of the molecular phylogenetic analysis. Subtribe Coleanthinae (=Puccinelliinae) is monophyletic according to both datasets, nuclear and chloroplast genes, that probably shows certain evolutionary distance from other Poeae s. str. We confirmed the results of previous morphological studies that placed Coleanthus close to the genus Phippsia but at the same time we have not found any evidences of the affinity between the genus Phippsia and the second putative ancestor, Deschampsia. The clade which contains Coleanthus and Phippsia occupies the sister position to all other genera of the subtribe Coleanthinae. The genus Phippsia produces hybrids with Puccinellia, ×Pucciphippsia, but the relationship obtained by our data is far more distant that was considered before from its morphological features. The genus Puccinellia forms a single monophyletic clade—sister to the genus Sclerochloa and former Colpodium s. l. (Paracolpodium, Catabrosella) which are monophyletic with Catabrosa. In partial contradiction to previous research (Soreng et al. 2015)—we found that the subtribe Coleanthinae is rather distant from two-chromosome grasses in ITS analysis though chloroplast genes show the sister position of the species from the 2-chromosome grasses group, Colpodium versicolor (2n = 4), to Coleanthinae. Also we detected multiple reticulation events in the tribe Poeae s. str. and some of them—within the subtribe Coleanthinae. This can explain an uncertain position of the two-chromosome grasses in relation to Coleanthinae.

Melanoleuca kashmirensis sp. nov. in subg. Urticocystis from Pakistan

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 434 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
ZIA ULLAH ◽  
RUBAB KHURSHED ◽  
MUHAMMAD BINYAMIN KHAN ◽  
ISRAR AHMAD ◽  
SANA JABEEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

During this investigation, a new species of Melanoleuca subg. Urticocystis with urticiform cheilocystidia is proposed. The identification is based on morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic analyses using ITS and 28S sequences. A comparison of the morphological features and molecular phylogenetic data with the taxa of subg. Urticocystis confirms the identity of the species as a new taxon. The detailed descriptions, line drawings and phylogenetic results are given.

Amanita glarea, a new species in section Vaginatae from Pakistan

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 306 (2) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANA JABEEN ◽  
MUNAZZA KIRAN ◽  
SADIQ ULLAH ◽  
ANDREW W. WILSON ◽  
GREGORY M. MUELLER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Internal Transcribed Spacer ◽  
Large Subunit ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Nucleotide Sequences ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

A new species, Amanita glarea, is described and illustrated from Pakistan. Molecular phylogenetic data derived from internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and nuclear ribosomal large subunit (LSU) regions along with morphological characters make it distinct from other currently known Amanita species. Amanita glarea is characterized by a grayish brown, slightly umbonate, pileus having universal veil remnants and striate margins, a long ringless stipe with a saccate volva bearing yellowish brown patches on the verrucose surface, inamyloid globose to subglobose basidiospores, and a filamentous pileipellis with some inflated round to elongated cells. Phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ribosomal ITS and LSU nucleotide sequences resolve A. glarea with other taxa in Amanita section Vaginatae.

scholarly journals A taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of the eastern Palearctic species of the genera Schizomyia Kieffer and Asteralobia Kovalev (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Asphondyliini), with descriptions of five new species of Schizomyia from Japan

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 808 ◽  
pp. 123-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayman Khamis Elsayed ◽  
Junichi Yukawa ◽  
Makoto Tokuda
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Taxonomic Treatment ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Palearctic Species

The genus Asteralobia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Asphondyliini, Schizomyiina) was erected by Kovalev (1964) based on the presence of constrictions on the cylindrical male flagellomeres. In the present study, we examine the morphological features of Asteralobia and Schizomyia and found that the male flagellomeres are constricted also in Schizomyiagaliorum, the type species of Schizomyia. Because no further characters clearly separating Asteralobia from Schizomyia were observed, we synonymize Asteralobia under Schizomyia. Molecular phylogenetic analysis strongly supports our taxonomic treatment. We describe five new species of Schizomyia from Japan, S.achyranthesae Elsayed & Tokuda, sp. n., S.diplocyclosae Elsayed & Tokuda, sp. n., S.castanopsisae Elsayed & Tokuda, sp. n., S.usubai Elsayed & Tokuda, sp. n., and S.paederiae Elsayed & Tokuda, sp. n., and redescribe three species, S.galiorum Kieffer, S.patriniae Shinji, and S.asteris Kovalev. A taxonomic key to the Japanese Schizomyia species is provided.

scholarly journals Usnea nipparensis and U. sinensis form a ‘species pair ’ presuming morphological, chemical and molecular phylogenetic data

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-271
Author(s):  
Yoshihito Ohmura
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Its Rdna ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Species Pair ◽  
Rdna Sequences ◽  
Phylogenetic Data ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Data

Phylogenetic relationships between Usnea nipparensis and U. sinensis, caperatic acid containing Usnea species, were examined based on ITS rDNA, and the phylogenetic position of U. nipparensis was inferred based on multi-locus gene analysis using ITS rDNA, nuLSU, and MCM7. Although U. nipparensis and U. sinensis have a sorediate and an esorediate shrubby thallus, respectively, and in general look quite different, other detailed morphological and chemical features are similar. Analysis of the ITS rDNA sequences suggests their close relationship, but also confirms the independence of both species, and that they most likely form a ‘species pair’ based on morphological, chemical and molecular phylogenetic data. Phylogenetic trees based on both multi-locus gene and ITS rDNA alone strongly support that U. nipparensis and U. angulata belong to the same clade.

Two new species of Tomentella (Thelephorales, Basidiomycota) from Lesser Xingan Mts., northeastern China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 369 (2) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
XU LU ◽  
YAN-HONG MU ◽  
HAI-SHENG YUAN
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Maximum Likelihood ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Molecular Analyses ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

Two new species of Tomentella from the Lesser Xingan Mts. of northeastern China, T. pallidocastanea and T. tenuirhizomorpha, are described and illustrated using morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analysis. T. pallidocastanea is characterized by mucedinoid basidiocarps adherent to the substrate, a light reddish brown to pinkish grey hymenophoral surface, absence of rhizomorphs and cystidia, generative hyphae with clamps, rarely with simple septa and echinulate, and subglobose to lobed basidiospores (echinuli up to 1.5 μm long). T. tenuirhizomorpha is characterized by mucedinoid basidiocarps separable from the substrate, a greyish brown to dark brown hymenophoral surface, thin rhizomorphs in the subiculum and margins, an absence of cystidia, generative hyphae with clamps rarely with simple septa and echinulate, and subglobose to globose basidiospores (echinuli up to 1.5 μm long). Molecular analyses using Maximum Likelihood, Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Analysis confirm the phylogenetic position of the two new species. The discriminating characters of these two new species and their closely related species are discussed in this study.

­Molecular identification of Audouinella-like species (Rhodophyta) from China based on three short DNA fragments

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 246 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangru Nan ◽  
Jia Feng ◽  
Xiaojing Han ◽  
Junping Lv ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Dna Fragments ◽  
Neighbor Joining ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Assisted Analysis ◽  
Thallus Color ◽  
Molecular Trees

Four algal specimens with morphological resemblance to Audouinella were collected in China, both bluish and reddish thalli included. Because of the taxonomic obscurity of the acrochaetioid lineage, a molecular phylogenetic analysis was performed to verify the phylogenetic position of these specimens based on three short DNA fragments including psbA, UPA and COI-5P. Molecular sequences were analyzed by neighbor-joining, maximum likelihood, Bayesian, and NeighborNet methods. Phylogenetic relationships based on three DNA fragments were consistent in that the four Audouinella-like thalli clustered together with Thorea hispida (Thore) Desvaux with strong support. The four specimens morphologically similar to Audouinella were concluded to represent the chantransia stage of Thoreales based on molecular trees. The reddish specimen shared no sequence divergence with the bluish ones. For identification of freshwater Audouinellla, criteria of thallus color must be used with caution and molecular tool-assisted analysis are essential. The formerly established new species Audouinella heterospora S.L.Xie & Y.J.Ling was inferred to be synonymous with the chantransia stage of T. hispida. The three DNA molecular markers demonstrated to be effective to ascertain the phylogenetic position of acrochaetioid algae specimens, and to delineate other freshwater Rhodophyta.

Three new combinations of Butyriboletus (Boletaceae)

Phytotaxa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 234 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuan Zhao ◽  
Gang Wu ◽  
Roy Halling ◽  
Zhu L. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Combinations ◽  
Gene Markers ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

Boletus peckii, B. pulchriceps and B. roseopurpureus, which were originally described from North America, are characterized by a yellow tube layer that often bruises blue, a yellow reticulated stipe especially at the apex, firm yellow-tinged flesh that often turns blue when exposed, smooth spores and an interwoven trichodermic pileipellis. The phylogenetic positions of the three species are inferred by molecular phylogenetic analysis based on DNA sequences of four gene markers (ITS, nrLSU, tef1-α and rpb1). Both morphological features and molecular phylogenetic evidence indicate that these three boletes belong to Butyriboletus, and thus, should be transferred to the genus.

Phylogenetic position of Aerumnosa Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) as revealed by multigene analysis, with the description of four new Oriental species

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4399 (2) ◽  
pp. 248 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEKKA VILKAMAA ◽  
HANS-GEORG RUDZINSKI ◽  
NIKOLA BURDÍKOVÁ ◽  
JAN ŠEVČÍK
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
New Species ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypothesis ◽  
Gene Markers ◽  
Multigene Analysis ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
New Material

Four Oriental species of Aerumnosa Mohrig, 1999 (Diptera: Sciaridae), a genus previously known only from Papua New Guinea, are newly described and illustrated: Aerumnosa bituberculata sp. n. (India), A. gemmifera sp. n. (Malaysia: Sabah), A. horrifica sp. n. (Brunei, Thailand) and A. impar sp. n. (Malaysia: Sabah). On the basis of the new material, the genus is redefined. A key to the known species of Aerumnosa is presented, including four new species. An updated molecular phylogenetic analysis based on four gene markers (18S, 28S, 16S and COI) shows Aerumnosa to be a member of the subfamily Cratyninae. The monophyly of Cratyninae is well supported, which clade also includes the genera Hyperlasion Schmitz, 1919, Pnyxiopalpus Vilkamaa & Hippa, 1999 and Pseudoaerumnosa Rudzinski, 2006. According to the present phylogenetic hypothesis, the monophyly of Cratyna Winnertz, 1967 s. l. needs to be revisited. The clade including Cratyna (s. str.) ambigua (Lengersdorf, 1934) appears as the sister group of Aerumnosa. 

scholarly journals Review and revision of the tribe Baphieae Yakovl. (Fabaceae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Mikhail Gonharov ◽  
Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Molecular Characteristics ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
Phylogenetic Lineages ◽  
Basal Position

The article gives an overview of the small and archaic tribe Baphieae (Fabaceae, Fabales). The study is devoted to the taxonomic revision of the Baphieae tribe and and the phylogenetic relationships within the group based on the morphological, anatomical, palynological and molecular characteristics. It was carried out on the basis of studying about 5,000 herbarium leaves in 12 European and African botanical institutions. The study was performed using the morphological-geographical and molecular-phylogenetic analysis methods. The article provides information on the morphological features of the species included in the tribe, their geographical distribution and chemical composition. The results of phylogenetic analysis have been presented. According to it, it can be argued that the tribe Baphieae is a monophyletic group occupying a relatively isolated position among the subfamily of moths, based on morphological and molecular characteristics. The proposals for a new structure of the tribe have been made. The identification of several phylogenetic lineages within the tribe and the basal position of the genus Dalhousiea have been substantiated. Further studies have been identified.

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