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A maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of Neoaraneomyces and Pseudometarhizium in the order Hypocreales based on multigene dataset (ITS, LSU, RPB2 and TEF). Statistical support values (≥ 50%/0.5) are shown at the nodes for ML bootstrap support/BI posterior probabilities. The new taxa are in bold.
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Clavicipitaceous fungi are pathogenic to scale insects, white flies and other insect orders. However, a few species are spider-associated. Two new genera from China, Neoaraneomyces and Pseudometarhizium , are described based on phylogenetic, ecological and morphological characteristics. Two spider-associated species, Neoaraneomyces araneicola , Pse...
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... Clavicipitaceae (Ascomycota, Hypocreales) is a large fungal family with diverse ecological characteristics and includes saprophytes, symbionts and pathogens that are associated with soils, insects, plants, fungi and other invertebrates (Gams and Zare 2003;Spatafora et al. 2007;Sung et al. 2007a;Steiner et al. 2011;Kepler et al. 2012a). Currently, the family Clavicipitaceae includes 52 genera and more than 500 species (Hyde et al. 2020;Mongkolsamrit et al. 2020aMongkolsamrit et al. , 2021Gao et al. 2021;Chen et al. 2022). Some members of these genera are valuable as biocontrol agents in agriculture and production of antibiotics in the pharmaceutical industry (e.g. ...
... Lasergene software (version 6.0, DNASTAR) was used to analyse the ambiguous bases of the PCR amplicon sequences. The SSU, ITS, LSU, RPB2 and EF1A sequences were retrieved from the GenBank database, based on previous studies by Mongkolsamrit et al. (2018Mongkolsamrit et al. ( , 2020bMongkolsamrit et al. ( , 2021, Gao et al. (2021), Chen et al. (2022) and others ( Table 2). The sequences for individual loci were aligned using the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment software version 7.037b (Katoh and Standley 2013) and modified manually using the MEGA software version 6.06 (Tamura et al. 2013). ...
... The phylogenetic trees (Fig. 1) constructed according to the ML and BI analyses were largely congruent and strongly supported in most clades. Most genera were clustered into independent clades (Chen et al. 2022; Fig. 1). Two new isolates, ZY 22.009 and ZY 22.010, belonged to a new species below named Po- The genus Pochonia was closely related to Rotiferophthora (Fig. 1). ...
The fungal taxa belonging to the Clavicipitaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) are widely distributed and include diverse saprophytic, symbiotic and pathogenic species that are associated with soils, insects, plants, fungi and invertebrates. In this study, we identified two new fungal taxa belonging to the family Clavicipitaceae that were isolated from soils collected in China. Morphological characterisation and phylogenetic analyses showed that the two species belong to Pochonia ( Pochonia sinensis sp. nov. ) and a new genus for which we propose Paraneoaraneomyces gen. nov. in Clavicipitaceae.
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