title: Fomitiporia cupressicola sp. nov., a parasite on Cupressus arizonica, and additional unnamed clades in the southern USA and northern Mexico, determined by multilocus phylogenetic analyses.
abstract: Fomitiporia cupressicola sp. nov., found in living Cupressus arizonica, is described on the basis of several collections originating from a high altitude forest in the northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. The species forms a monophyletic clade, basal to a larger lineage comprising species originating mainly from temperate to Mediterranean areas of the northern hemisphere. The phylogenetic approach in Fomitiporia also revealed multiple unnamed clades within the F. robusta complex in the southern USA and northern Mexico, representing potential species. The status of the F. robusta complex in North America is discussed briefly.
authors.affiliation: Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amalfi
authors.forename: Tania
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Raymundo
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Valenzuela
authors.forename: Cony
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Decock
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D001483:Base Sequence; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D029781:Cupressus / Q000382:microbiology*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer / Q000235:genetics; D017753:Ecosystem; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D058507:Host Specificity; D008800:Mexico; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing / Q000379:methods*; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D010802:Phylogeny; D012270:Ribosomes / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D014197:Trees / Q000382:microbiology; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal; D021903:DNA, Ribosomal Spacer