Phylogenetic Revision and Patterns of Host Specificity in the Fungal Subphylum Entomophthoromycotina.

ABSTRACT: The Entomophthoromycotina, a subphylum close to the root of terrestrial fungi with a bias toward insects as their primary hosts, has been notoriously difficult to categorize taxonomically for decades. Here, we reassess the phylogeny of this group based on conserved genes encoding ribosomal RNA and RNA polymerase II subunits, confirming their general monophyly, but challenging previously assumed taxonomic relationships within and between particular clades. Furthermore, for the prominent, partially human-pathogenic taxon Conidiobolus, a new type species C. coronatus is proposed in order to compensate for the unclear, presumably lost previous type species C. utriculosus Brefeld 1884. We also performed an exhaustive survey of the broad host spectrum of the Entomophthoromyc

SUBMITTER: Mockel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8879804 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature