Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota)

Steven D. Leavitt; Ekaphan Kraichak; Matthew P. Nelsen; Susanne Altermann; Pradeep K. Divakar; David Alors; Theodore L. Esslinger; Ana Crespo; Thorsten Lumbsch

doi:10.1111/mec.13271

Fungal specificity and selectivity for algae play a major role in determining lichen partnerships across diverse ecogeographic regions in the lichen-forming family Parmeliaceae (Ascomycota)

Molecular Ecology ◽

10.1111/mec.13271 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (14) ◽

pp. 3779-3797 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Author(s):

Steven D. Leavitt ◽

Ekaphan Kraichak ◽

Matthew P. Nelsen ◽

Susanne Altermann ◽

Pradeep K. Divakar ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fungal Specificity

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Detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with pecan (Carya illinoinensis) trees by molecular and morphological approaches

MycoKeys ◽

10.3897/mycokeys.42.26118 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 73-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. Fernández Bidondo ◽

R. P. Colombo ◽

M. Recchi ◽

V. A. Silvani ◽

M. Pérgola ◽

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Keyword(s):

Fungal Community ◽

Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽

Sequence Similarity ◽

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽

Soil Disturbance ◽

Fungal Species ◽

Fungal Community Composition ◽

Molecular Approaches ◽

Field Samples ◽

Fungal Specificity

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal community associated with pecan (Caryaillinoinensis) roots and rhizospheric soils was assessed by spore isolation and morphological characterisation and by pyrosequencing of AM molecular markers. The AM fungal community associated with pecan growing in the field, was always more diverse than that associated with pecan growing in containers. This was not observed when AM richness was studied, suggesting that soil disturbance by a reduction in host plant richness leads to a less equitable distribution of AM fungal species, in contrast to natural soils. The chosen primers (AMV4.5F/AMDGR) for pyrosequencing showed high AM fungal specificity. Based on 97% sequence similarity, 49 operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) were obtained and, amongst these, 41 MOTUs corresponded to the Glomeromycotaphylum. The number of obtained AM sequences ranged from 2164, associated with field samples, to 5572 obtained from pecan trap pot culture samples, defining 30 and 29 MOTUs, respectively. Richness estimated by conventional species identification was 6 and 9 AM fungal species in soil and pot samples, respectively. Claroideoglomuslamellosum, Funneliformismosseae and Entrophosporainfrequens were the only taxa detected using both techniques. Predominant sequences in the pecan rhizosphere samples, such as Rhizoglomusirregulare and other less abundant (Dominikiairanica, Dominikiaindica, Sclerocystissinuosa, Paraglomuslaccatum), were detected only by pyrosequencing. Detection of AM fungal species based on spore morphology, in combination with molecular approaches, provides a more comprehensive estimate of fungal community composition.

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Germination of the fully myco-heterotrophic orchid Cyrtosia septentrionalis is characterized by low fungal specificity and does not require direct seed-mycobiont contact

Mycoscience ◽

10.1016/j.myc.2012.12.003 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 54 (5) ◽

pp. 343-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Hidetaka Umata ◽

Yuko Ota ◽

Masayoshi Yamada ◽

Yuka Watanabe ◽

Stephan W. Gale

Keyword(s):

Fungal Specificity

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COPHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF TRACHYMYRMEX ANT-FUNGAL SPECIFICITY: ‘ONE TO ONE WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS’

10.22541/au.162211773.35216786/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine Beigel ◽

Alix Matthews ◽

Katrin Kellner ◽

Christine Pawlik ◽

Matthew Greenwold ◽

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Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Phylogenetic Analyses ◽

Marker Genes ◽

Snp Analysis ◽

Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽

Single Nucleotide ◽

Genome Wide ◽

Native Populations ◽

Symbiotic Fungi ◽

Fungal Specificity

Over the past few decades, large-scale phylogenetic analyses of fungus-gardening ants and their symbiotic fungi have depicted strong concordance among major clades of ants and their symbiotic fungi, yet within clades, fungus sharing is somewhat widespread among unrelated ant lineages. These symbioses are thought to be explained by a diffuse coevolution model within major clades. Understanding horizontal exchange within clades has been limited by conventional genetic markers that lack both interspecific and geographic variation. To examine whether reports of horizontal exchange was indeed symbiont sharing or an issue of employing relatively uninformative molecular markers, samples of Trachymyrmex arizonensis and Trachymyrmex pomonae and their fungi were collected from native populations in Arizona and genotyped using conventional marker genes and genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Conventional markers of the fungal symbionts generally exhibited cophylogenetic patterns that were consistent with some symbiont sharing, but most fungal clades had low support. SNP analysis, in contrast, indicated that each ant species exhibited fidelity to its own fungal subclade with only one instance of a colony growing a fungus that was otherwise associated with a different ant species. This evidence supports a pattern of codivergence between Trachymyrmex species and their fungi, and thus a diffuse coevolutionary model may not accurately predict symbiont exchange. These results suggest that fungal sharing across host species in these symbioses may be less extensive than previously thought.

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