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ArticlePloS one2018

The cup fungus Pestalopezia brunneopruinosa is Pestalotiopsis gibbosa and belongs to Sordariomycetes.

Kyoko Watanabe, Shunsuke Nozawa, Tom Hsiang, Brenda Callan

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kyoko WatanabeGraduate School of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7759-7701
Shunsuke NozawaGraduate School of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.
Tom HsiangEnvironmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Brenda CallanPacific Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Tamagawa University · JPNatural Resources Canada · CAUniversity of Guelph · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pestalopezia brunneopruinosa, the type species of Pestalopezia in Leotiomycetes, produces typical cup-shaped ascomata. Because its asexual morph has conidia comprised of five cells including apical and basal appendages and three pigmented median cells, it was first described as Pestalotia gibbosa, which belongs to Sordariomycetes. This contradiction has not been resolved due to the difficulty in isolating this fungus in culture. In this study, we isolated separate strains from the sexual morph and the asexual morph for molecular analysis. Phylogenetic trees of Sporocadaceae based on internal transcribed spacer, partial β-tubulin, and partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha sequence datasets revealed that both strains fall into the same taxon, in a clade in Pestalotiopsis sensu stricto alongside P. gaultheriae and P. spathulata. We provide the first evidence that fungi producing cup-shaped ascomata in Pestalotiopsis belong to Sordariomycetes, and we have proposed the transfer of Pestalopezia brunneopruinosa to Pestalotiopsis gibbosa.

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PhylogenyAscomycotaFungal ProteinsTubulinFungal ProteinsTubulin

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PMID29949577
PMCPMC6021046
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