Taxonomy of Aspergillus series Versicolores: species reduction and lessons learned about intraspecific variability.

ABSTRACT: Aspergillus series Versicolores members occur in a wide range of environments and substrates such as indoor environments, food, clinical materials, soil, caves, marine or hypersaline ecosystems. The taxonomy of the series has undergone numerous re-arrangements including a drastic reduction in the number of species and subsequent recovery to 17 species in the last decade. The identification to species level is however problematic or impossible in some isolates even using DNA sequencing or MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry indicating a problem in the definition of species boundaries. To revise the species limits, we assembled a large dataset of 518 strains. From these, a total of 213 strains were selected for the final analysis according to their calmodulin (CaM) genotype, sub

SUBMITTER: Sklenar F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9903908 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature