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Phylogenetic analysis indicates transitions from vegetative to sexual reproduction in the Lobaria retigera group (Lecanoromycetidae, Ascomycota)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2009

Carolina CORNEJO ,
Svetlana CHABANENKO  and
Christoph SCHEIDEGGER
Carolina CORNEJO
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Email: carolina.cornejo@wsl.ch
Svetlana CHABANENKO
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Email: carolina.cornejo@wsl.ch 2 Sakhalin Botanical Garden, Gorkystreet 25, 693023 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia.
Christoph SCHEIDEGGER
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zuercherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Email: carolina.cornejo@wsl.ch
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Abstract

Phylogenetic relationships among the hypothetical species pairs Lobaria kurokawae / L. retigera and L. pseudopulmonaria / L. isidiosa were investigated based on TLC techniques and the phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacers (ITS) nrDNA. Results of TLC demonstrate that L. retigera and L. kurokawae can be chemically distinguished from L. isidiosa and L. pseudopulmonaria by the absence of retigeranic acid. Parsimony analysis of 18 specimens shows two monophyletic clades – a L.retigera lineage and a L. isidiosa lineage—both including their apotheciate counterparts. Unlike the original hypothesis of species pairs, our study reveals transitions from isidiate morphs that have the potential to rarely form apothecia, towards apotheciate morphs that produce no vegetative propagules.

Keywords

evolutionary significant unitslichen-forming ascomycetesLobariaspecies pairs
Type
Research Article
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The Lichenologist , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 275 - 284
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Copyright © British Lichen Society 2009

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