Fifteen new species of Penicillium.
We introduce 15 new species of Penicillium isolated from a diverse range of locations, including Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Tanzania, USA and the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, from a variety of habitats, including leaf surfaces in tropical rain forests, soil eaten by chimpanzees, infrabuccal pockets of carpenter ants, intestinal contents of caterpillars and soil. The new species are classified in sections Aspergilloides (1), Canescentia (2), Charlesia (1), Exilicaulis (3), Lanata-Divaricata (7) and Stolkia (1). Each is characterised and described using classical morphology, LC-MS based extrolite analyses and multigene phylogenies based on ITS, BenA and CaM. Significant extrolites detected include andrastin, pulvilloric acid, penitrem A and citrinin amongst many others.
Biodiversity (Mycology), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada;; Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada.
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London Research & Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada.
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Renaud
London Research & Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada.
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Burgess
New Brunswick Museum, 277 Douglas Avenue, Saint John, New Brunswick, E2K 1E5, Canada.
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268 Gledhill Ave, Toronto, Ontario, M4C 5L2, Canada.
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Clark
Precision BioLogic Inc., 140 Eileen Stubbs Ave, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B3B 0A9, Canada.
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Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.; Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon, INSERM U1052, 165 Chemin du petit Revoyet - BP 12, 69921 Oullins Cedex, France.
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Biodiversity (Mycology), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada;
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Biodiversity (Mycology), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada;
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London Research & Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, N5V 4T3, Canada.
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Biodiversity (Mycology), Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada;; Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, 30 Marie-Curie, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada.
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Trichocomaceae; beta-tubulin; calmodulin; internal transcribed spacer rDNA region