title: Xylaria coprinicola, a new species that antagonizes cultivation of Coprinus comatus in China.
abstract: The species known in China as the chicken-claw fungus is described as a new species, Xylaria coprinicola. This species is known as an antagonist of cultivation of the edible mushroom Coprinus comatus. Stromata of X. coprinicola are cylindrical, terminate in a sterile apex and arise in fascicles from a relative large submerged base; perithecia are immersed and have conspicuously conical ostiolar openings; ascospores are minute. Phylogenetic analyses based on combined partial sequences of rpb2, β-tub and α-act genes showed that X. coprinicola is closely related to those Xylaria species exclusively associated with termite nests.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan. yumingju@gate.sinica.edu.tw
authors.forename: Yu-Ming
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Huei-Mei
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Xin-Sheng
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000898:Antibiosis; D002681:China; D003302:Coprinus / Q000502:physiology*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D013098:Xylariales / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins