Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data
Figure 2
The best tree generated by MrBayes for the whole ITS Clustal W alignment.
Bayesian posterior probabilities higher than 0.94 are indicated with bold branches. Taxonomic groups were coded with colors and initials of the classes. Examples of ascoma morphology and habits of the earth tongues; photo credits and courtesy of: Clive Shirley (Geoglossum glutinosum), Thomas Læssøe (Sarcoleotia globosa), Andrus Votik (Thuemenidium arenarium), and Mark Steinmetz (Trichoglossum hirsutum). Environmental ITS sequences grouped in the earth tongue clades are marked with one or more annotations indicating whether the isolate would be designated an earth tongue by other approaches. Affinity of marked isolates to the earth tongues was suggested by: * the sequence search suite emerencia; & BLAST of known earth-tongue ITS sequence against INSD; and by # annotation in INSD as unclassified Pezizomycotina environmental samples. Newly generated sequences for this study are presented as taxa without INSD accession numbers while download sequences are listed with their INSD accession numbers.