Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-xtgtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-18T15:06:15.044Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Remarkable cases of parallel evolution of the placodioid thallus growth form in the Lecanographaceae (Arthoniales) with the description of a new species of Alyxoria from Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

Damien Ertz Open the ORCID record for Damien Ertz [Opens in a new window] ,
Alejandro Huereca Open the ORCID record for Alejandro Huereca [Opens in a new window] ,
Sergio Manuel Salcedo-Martínez  and
Anders Tehler Open the ORCID record for Anders Tehler [Opens in a new window]
Damien Ertz*
Affiliation:
Meise Botanic Garden, Department Research, Nieuwelaan 38, BE-1860Meise, Belgium Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique, rue A. Lavallée 1, B-1080Bruxelles, Belgium
Alejandro Huereca
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Botánica, Laboratorio de Biología de Criptógamas, Av. Pedro de Alba y Manuel Barragán s/n, Cd. Universitaria, CP 66455, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México
Sergio Manuel Salcedo-Martínez
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Botánica, Laboratorio de Biología de Criptógamas, Av. Pedro de Alba y Manuel Barragán s/n, Cd. Universitaria, CP 66455, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México
Anders Tehler
Affiliation:
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, P.O. Box 50007, S-104 05Stockholm, Sweden
*
Author for correspondence: Damien Ertz. E-mail: damien.ertz@jardinbotaniquemeise.be
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The new species Alyxoria sierramadrensis is described from Mexico where it inhabits limestone rocks. The lichen developing from this fungus is characterized by a placodioid to subfoliose thallus with a white pruinose surface; rounded to shortly elongated ascomata with a black epruinose margin and a widely exposed, white pruinose hymenial disc; hyaline, 3-septate ascospores, 17–25 × 7–9 μm; the presence of anthraquinones rendering the medulla orange. Phylogenetic analyses of nuLSU, mtSSU and RPB2 sequences place this species in the genus Alyxoria (Lecanographaceae). This generic affiliation is surprising because all known Alyxoria species have a crustose thallus. Lecanographaceae mainly includes species without a thallus (lichenicolous taxa) or with a thin crustose thallus, the only exception being Simonyella variegata with a fruticose thallus. The new species belongs to the Alyxoria ochrocheila subgroup, which includes lichens also frequently known to have anthraquinones, white pruinose hymenial discs and 3-septate ascospores. Phylogenetic analyses further determined the systematic position of the monotypic genus Phoebus. This genus, considered as an Arthoniales of uncertain family affiliation, is shown to belong to the Lecanographaceae. With its placodioid thallus, it is another example of a lichenized fungus with a deviating morphology in thallus structure for the family, increasing the number of remarkable cases of parallel evolution of lichen growth forms within the Arthoniales. Phoebus hydrophobius is newly recorded for Mexico.

Keywords

anthraquinonebiodiversitylichenNorth Americaphylogenytaxonomy
Type
Standard Papers
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 52 , Issue 6 , November 2020 , pp. 415 - 424
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the British Lichen Society

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alfaro, ME, Zoller, S and Lutzoni, F (2003) Bayes or bootstrap? A simulation study comparing the performance of Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling and bootstrapping in assessing phylogenetic confidence. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20, 255–266.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Aptroot, A and Schumm, F (2011) Fruticose Roccellaceae: an Anatomical-Microscopical Atlas and Guide with a Worldwide Key and Further Notes on Some Crustose Roccellaceae or Similar Lichens. Norderstedt: BoD–Books on Demand.Google Scholar
Darriba, D, Taboada, GL, Doallo, R and Posada, D (2012) jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing. Nature Methods 9, 772.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Diederich, P, Lawrey, JD and Ertz, D (2018) The 2018 classification and checklist of lichenicolous fungi, with 2000 non-lichenized, obligately lichenicolous taxa. Bryologist 121, 340–425.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Egea, JM, Torrente, P and Manrique, E (1993) The Lecanactis grumulosa group (Opegraphaceae) in the Mediterranean region. Plant Systematics and Evolution 187, 103–114.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ertz, D (2009) Revision of the corticolous Opegrapha species from the Paleotropics. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 102, 1–176.Google Scholar
Ertz, D and Tehler, A (2011) The phylogeny of Arthoniales (Pezizomycotina) inferred from nucLSU and RPB2 sequences. Fungal Diversity 49, 47–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ertz, D, Tehler, A, Irestedt, M, Frisch, A, Thor, G and van den Boom, P (2015) A large-scale phylogenetic revision of Roccellaceae (Arthoniales) reveals eight new genera. Fungal Diversity 70, 31–53.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Frisch, A, Thor, G, Ertz, D and Grube, M (2014) The Arthonialean challenge: restructuring Arthoniaceae. Taxon 63, 727–744.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
García, J, Contreras, A, Lozano, M, García, M, Lazcano, D, Torres, J, Salinas, M, Borré, D, Chávez, J, Contreras, J, et al. (2013) Biodiversidad y estatus de protección de los vertebrados de las ANP de la Sierra de la Silla. In Ramos, M and Aguilera, V (eds), Congreso Interdisciplinario de Cuerpos Adadémicos. Ciencias Naturales y Exactas Handbook. México: ECORFAN, Universidad Tecnológica del Suroeste de Guanajuato, pp. 64–82.Google Scholar
Green, J and Sánchez, S (2013) La Calidad del Aire en América Latina: una Visión Panorámica. Washington, D.C.: Clean Air Institute.Google Scholar
Harris, RC and Ladd, D (2007) New taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ozark Ecoregion. Opuscula Philolichenum 4, 57–68.Google Scholar
Herrera-Campos, MA, Lücking, R, Pérez-Pérez, RE, Miranda-González, R, Sánchez, N, Barcenas-Peña, A, Carrizosa, A, Zambrano, A, Ryan, BD and Nash, TH III (2014) Biodiversidad de líquenes en México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad Suplemento 85, 82–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Huelsenbeck, JP and Ronquist, F (2001) MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics 17, 754–755.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
iNaturalist (2020) iNaturalist [WWW resource] URL https://www.inaturalist.org [Accessed 24 June 2020].Google Scholar
INEGI (1986) Síntesis geográfica del Estado de Nuevo León. Aguascalientes: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.Google Scholar
INEGI (2002) Síntesis geográfica de San Luis Potosí. Aguascalientes: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.Google Scholar
INEGI (2015) Anuario estadístico y geográfico de Coahuila de Zaragoza. Aguascalientes: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.Google Scholar
INEGI (2017) Anuario estadístico y geográfico de Tamaulipas. Aguascalientes: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía.Google Scholar
Katoh, K, Misawa, K, Kuma, K and Miyata, T (2002) MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform. Nucleic Acids Research 30, 3059–3066.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lazcano, D, Contreras-Lozano, J, Narvaéz-Torres, S and Chávez-Cisneros, J (2012) Notes on Mexican herpetofauna 18: herpetofauna of Cerro El Topo Chico Natural Protected Area, Nuevo Léon, Mexico. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 47, 149–155.Google Scholar
Lazcano, D, Nevárez de los Reyes, M, García-Salas, JA, Mata-Laredo, P and Wilson, LD (2019) Notes on Mexican herpetofauna 33: a new record for the green ratsnake (Senticolis triaspis) from Cerro de las Mitras, a sky island in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 54, 117–121.Google Scholar
Liu, YJ, Whelen, S and Hall, BD (1999) Phylogenetic relationships among ascomycetes: evidence from an RNA polymerase II subunit. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16, 1799–1808.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lücking, R, Hodkinson, BP and Leavitt, SD (2017) The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota – approaching one thousand genera. Bryologist 119, 361–416.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lutzoni, F, Wagner, P, Reeb, V and Zoller, S (2000) Integrating ambiguously aligned regions of DNA sequences in phylogenetic analyses without violating positional homology. Systematic Biology 49, 628–651.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lutzoni, F, Kauff, F, Cox, C, McLaughlin, D, Celio, G, Dentinger, B, Padamsee, M, Hibbett, D, James, TY, Baloch, E, et al. (2004) Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91, 1446–1480.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Maddison, WP and Maddison, DR (2015) Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis. Version 3.04. [WWW resource] URL http://mesquiteproject.org.Google Scholar
McLaughlin, SP (2007) Tundra to tropics: the floristic plant geography of North America. Sida Botanical Miscellany 30, 1–58.Google Scholar
Mason-Gamer, RJ and Kellogg, EA (1996) Testing for phylogenetic conflict among molecular data sets in the tribe Triticeae (Gramineae). Systematic Biology 45, 524–545.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Miller, MA, Pfeiffer, W and Schwartz, T (2010) Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees. In Proceedings of the Gateway Computing Environments Workshop (GCE), 14 November 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 1–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Molina, M, Mena, C, Mediavilla Sahagún, A, Gómez Sánchez, MD, Barrera Huertas, HA and García, Escalante J (2019) Análisis de la contaminación por PM2.5 en la ciudad de Monterrey, Nuevo León, enfocado a la identificación de medidas estratégicas de control. Mexico City: Centro Mario Molina para Estudios Estratégicos sobre Energía y Medio Ambiente A.C.Google Scholar
Montalvo-Arrieta, JC, Chávez-Cabello, G, Velasco-Tapia, F and de León I, Navarro (2010) Causes and effects of landslides in the Monterrey Metropolitan area, NE Mexico. In Werner, ED and Friedman, HP (eds), Landslides: Causes, Types and Effects. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 73–104.Google Scholar
Morse, CA and Lendemer, JC (2019) A new Biatoridium from eastern North America, with comments on the disposition of species of Biatorella sensu Magnusson. Bryologist 122, 1–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Orange, A, James, PW and White, FJ (2010) Microchemical Methods for the Identification of Lichens. London: British Lichen Society.Google Scholar
Rambaut, A (2012) FigTree v1.4.2 [WWW resource] URL http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/.Google Scholar
Rambaut, A, Suchard, MA, Xie, W and Drummond, AJ (2013) Tracer. Trace Analysis Tool. Version v1.6.0 [WWW resource] URL http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Google Scholar
Ronquist, F and Huelsenbeck, JP (2003) MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics 19, 1572–1574.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rzedowski, J (2006) Vegetación de México. 1ra. Edición digital. Mexico City: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad.Google Scholar
Stamatakis, A (2014) RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies. Bioinformatics 30, 1312–1313.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tehler, A (1990) A new approach to the phylogeny of Euascomycetes with a cladistic outline of Arthoniales focusing on Roccellaceae. Canadian Journal of Botany 68, 2458–2492.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tehler, A and Irestedt, M (2007) Parallel evolution of lichen growth forms in the family Roccellaceae (Arthoniales, Ascomycota). Cladistics 23, 432–454.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tehler, A, Irestedt, M, Wedin, M and Ertz, D (2010) The old world Roccella species outside Europe and Macaronesia: taxonomy, evolution and phylogeny. Systematics and Biodiversity 8, 223–246.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thiyagaraja, V, Lücking, R, Ertz, D, Wanasinghe, DN, Karunarathna, SC, Camporesi, E and Hyde, KD (2020) Evolution of non-lichenized, saprotrophic species of Arthonia (Ascomycota, Arthoniales) and resurrection of Naevia, with notes on Mycoporum. Fungal Diversity 102, 205–224.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Torrente, P and Egea, JM (1989) La familia Opegraphaceae en el area Mediterránea de la Península Ibérica y Norte de Africa. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 32, 1–282.Google Scholar
Van den Broeck, D, Lücking, R, Gaya, E, Chaves, JL, Lejju, JB and Ertz, D (2017) Heterocyphelium leucampyx (Arthoniales, Ascomycota): another orphaned mazaediate lichen finds its way home. Lichenologist 49, 333–345.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yin, AC, Wang, XY, Liu, D, Zhang, YY, Yang, MX, Li, LJ and Wang, LS (2019) Two new species of Placolecis (lichenized Ascomycota) from China. Mycobiology 47, 401–407.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Zoller, S, Scheidegger, C and Sperisen, C (1999) PCR primers for the amplification of mitochondrial small subunit ribosomal DNA of lichen-forming ascomycetes. Lichenologist 31, 511–516.CrossRefGoogle Scholar