Two new species of Endocarpon (Verrucariaceae, Ascomycota) from China
- Author:
- Zhang T., Liu M., Wang Y.-Y., Wang Z.-J., Wei X.-L. & Wei J.-C.
- Year:
- 2017
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports
- Pages:
- 7: 7193 [11 p.]
- Url:
- DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-07778-5
Endocarpon species are key components of biological soil crusts. Phenotypic and systematic molecular
analyses were carried out to identify samples of Endocarpon collected from the southeast edge of
the Tengger Desert in China. These morphological and molecular analyses revealed two previously
undescribed species that form highly supported independent monophyletic clades within Endocarpon.
The new taxa were named Endocarpon deserticola sp. nov. and E. unifoliatum sp. nov. Furthermore,
our results indicated that the newly developed protein coding markers adenylate kinase (ADK) and
ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme h (UCEH) are useful for assessing species boundaries in phylogenic
analyses.
- Id:
- 33690
- Submitter:
- zdenek
- Post_time:
- Thursday, 29 July 2021 15:00