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Bezerromycetales and Wiesneriomycetales ord. nov. (class Dothideomycetes), with two novel genera to accommodate endophytic fungi from Brazilian cactus

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During a survey of endophytic fungi from the cactus Tacinga inamoena in a Brazilian tropical dry forest (Caatinga) some undescribed ascomycetous fungi were isolated. These fungi are characterized by superficial and immersed, globose to subglobose, smooth or hairy ascomata, bitunicate asci, and muriformly septate, ellipsoidal ascospores. Multigene phylogenetic analyses using sequences from partial ITS, SSU and LSU nrDNA and the translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene (tef1) demonstrated a monophyletic clade accommodating these endophytic fungi in the class Dothideomycetes, closely related to the order Tubeufiales. Based on morphological features and phylogenetic analyses, these fungi could not be placed in the order Tubeufiales, in the new order Wiesneriomycetales, or any other known genus in the class Dothideomycetes. Thus, two new genera (Bezerromyces, with B. brasiliensis and B. pernambucoensis, and Xiliomyces with X. brasiliensis), a new family (Bezerromycetaceae) and a new order (Bezerromycetales) are introduced to accommodate these novel taxa. Our phylogenetic analyses also demonstrated that the clade accommodating Wiesneriomycetaceae represents a new order, here introduced as Wiesneriomycetales.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) (Process 203132/2014-9), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco (FACEPE) of Brazil for financial support of this project. We extend our thanks to the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and to the mycologists Alexandre Machado, André Firmino, Eliane Silva-Nogueira, Gianne Rizzuto, Greicilene Albuquerque, Karla Freire, and Renan Barbosa from URM Culture Collection, and to Arien van Iperen, Marcelo Denis, Marjan Vermaas, and Mieke Starink-Willemse from CBS. We also thank the students of the Laboratório de Micologia Ambiental/UFPE for their technical help and processing of samples.

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    Jadson D. P. Bezerra, Rafael J. V. Oliveira, Laura M. Paiva, Gladstone A. Silva & Cristina M. Souza-Motta

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Fungos (PPG-BF), Departamento de Micologia Prof. Chaves Batista, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Moraes Rego, s/n, Centro de Biociências, Cidade Universitária, CEP: 50670-901, Recife, PE, Brazil

    Jadson D. P. Bezerra, Rafael J. V. Oliveira, Gladstone A. Silva & Cristina M. Souza-Motta

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    Pedro W. Crous

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Bezerra, J.D.P., Oliveira, R.J.V., Paiva, L.M. et al. Bezerromycetales and Wiesneriomycetales ord. nov. (class Dothideomycetes), with two novel genera to accommodate endophytic fungi from Brazilian cactus. Mycol Progress 16, 297–309 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-016-1254-0

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