Message - 7th IAL Symposium

2A-2-O
Lichen: from genome to ecosystem in a changing world
2A-2: Parmeliaceae: improving our understanding of taxonomy, classification
and biogeography
(2A-2-O1) Submission ID: IAL0170-00001
MULTILOCUS PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF PARMELIACEAE (ASCOMYCOTA)
DERIVED FROM PARSYS-10
Divakar P. K. 1 , Lumbsch T. 2 , Wedin M. 3 , Bjerke J. 4 , Mccune B. 5 , Kauff F. 6 , Roca-Valiente, B. 1 , Nuñez-Zapata J. 1 ,
Del-Prado R. 1 , Ruibal C. 1 , Amo de Paz, G. 1 , Cubas, P. 1 , Ohmura Y. 7 , Leavitt S. 2 , Kristin Kolstø T. I4 , Elix J. A. 8 ,
Esslinger T. L. 9 , Ahti T. 10 , Benatti M. N. 11 ., Buaruang K. 12 , Candan M. 13 , Clerc P. 14 , Egan, R. S. 15 , Gavilán R. 1 ,
Gueidan C. 16 , Hawksworth D. L. 1 , Hur J-S. 17 , Kantvilas G. 18 , Mattsson J. E. 19 , Miadlikowska J. 20 , Molina, M.C. 21 ,
Millanes, A. 21 , Nelsen M. 2 , Randlane T. 22 , Rico V.J. 1 , Saag A. 22 , Schmitt I. 23 , Sipman, J. M. H. 24 , Sohrabi M. 10 ,
Thell A. 25 , Truong C. 14 , Upreti D. K. 2 . & Crespo A. 1
1 Biología Vegetal II, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2 Botany, The Field Museum Chicago, Chicago, United States
3 Cryptogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
4 Climate and The Environment, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Troms, Norway
5 Dept. Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University Cordley, Corvallis, United States
6 Fb Biologie, Molecular Phylogenetics, TU Kaiserslautern, Postfach, Kaiserslautern, Germany
7 Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
8 Australian National University, Department of Chemistry, Canberra, Act, Australia
9 Biological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, United States
10 Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
11 Instituto de Botânica, Núcleo de Pesquisa em Micologia, São Paulo, Brazil.
12 Biology, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand
13 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science , Akdeniz University , 07058 Antalya , Turkey
14 Laboratoire de Systematique et Biodiversite, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de Geneve, Chambesy, Switzerland
15 University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
16 Department of Molecular Studies, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
17 Sunchon National University, Korean Lichen Research Institute, Sunchon, Korea
18 Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmanian Herbarium, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
19 Department of Operational Efficiency, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
20 Biology, Duke University, Durham NC, United States
21 Departamento de Biología Vegetal II, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
22 Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia
23 Adaptation and Climate, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BiK-F, Franfurt, Germany
24 Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
25 Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Parmeliaceae is one of the largest lichen families in lichenized fungi, containing ca. 2,500 species
distributed in 84 genera. It is characterized by cupulate exciple, Lecanora-type asci and mostly simple hyaline
ascospores. Taxa included in the family are morphologically very diverse e.g. crustose, subcrustose, foliose and
fruticose growth forms and widely distributed. In our previous PARSYS-08 project we published a solid classification
of core group parmelioid lichen and re-circumscribed several genera based on multigene molecular data.
Almost all the phylogenetic relation among the divergent groups of parmelioid lichens was well resolved, however
the backbone of the main clades were not resolved with confidence. Likewise parmelioids, a large number
of species included in other groups of the family has also worldwide distribution and the sheer number of species
makes it advisable that different research groups join forces in the study of the phylogeny of these lichens.
The current project PARSYS-10 planned during an EOL meeting in 2010, and we are presenting here following
results: i) elucidation of evolutionary relationship among Parmeliaceae taxa; ii) a comprehensive and coherent
classification at generic level for Parmeliaceae. The following six molecular markers are included in the study,
nuclear ribosomal regions, ITS and nuLSU rDNA, mitochondral SSU rDNA, and protein coding genes RPB1,
Mcm7 and tsr1. Single-gene and combined data sets were analyzed using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood,
and Bayesian methods.
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