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Lichen: from genome to ecosystem in a changing world<br />

3A-P<br />

(3A-P10) Submission ID: <strong>IAL</strong>0126-00001<br />

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF LICHENIZED AND NON-LICHENIZED CALICIOID FUNGI<br />

AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE MAZAEDIUM WITHIN ASCOMYCOTA<br />

Prieto M. 1 , Baloch E. 1 , Wedin M. 1<br />

1 Cryptogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden<br />

Calicioid or mazaediate fungi constitute a very heterogeneous assemblage of diverse fungi sharing the<br />

presence of prototunicate asci and the production of a mazaedium. These mazaediate fungi were once treated<br />

as an order of Ascomycota (Caliciales) but many are now known to be nested within Arthoniomycetes, Eurotiomycetes<br />

and Lecanoromycetes, thus, confirming the hight polyphyly of the group. In this study we utilize multigene<br />

phylogenetic analyses (based on nuLSU, ITS, mtSSU, RPB1 and mcm7) of all major mazaediate groups to<br />

study the evolution of the mazaedium, and we focus particularly on the remaining mazaediate families of unclear<br />

position within the Ascomycota.<br />

(3A-P11) Submission ID: <strong>IAL</strong>0166-00001<br />

IDENTITY OF ENDOCARPON PULVINATUM, THE ONLY SUBFRUTICOSE VERRUCARIACEAE<br />

Heiðmarsson S. 1 , Miadlikowska J. 2 , Lutzoni F. 2<br />

1 Akureyri Division, Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Akureyri, Iceland<br />

2 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States<br />

Endocarpon (Verrucariaceae) comprises lichenized species which are characterized by a squamulose<br />

or subfruticose thallus, muriform ascospores and the presence of hymenial algae. Endocarpon pulvinatum was<br />

described by T. Fries from Norway in 1861 and is distributed in the northern part of Scandinavia, Central Europe,<br />

Iceland and on higher altitudes in North America. The species is unique in Verrucariaceae with its subfruticose<br />

habitus, bearing some resemblance to the rare North American species Endocarpon tortuosum. Phylogeny of<br />

Verrucariaceae is being scrutinised at present and several new genera have been proposed such as Atla, Hydropunctaria<br />

and Wahlenbergiella. Phylogenetic analysis have indicated that some of the present genera within<br />

Verrucariaceae are polyphyletic although there has not been any indications until now that Endocarpon could<br />

be polyphyletic. Five loci were sequenced (ITS, ncLSU, mtSSU, RPB1 and Mcm7) from few specimens of E.<br />

pulvinatum collected in Iceland. Phylogenetic analyses where conducted in order to reveal the placement of E.<br />

pulvinatum within the Verrucariaceae. The results indicate that E. pulvinatum does not belong to Endocarpon<br />

but should rather be placed in Staurothele, a crustose genus which shares muriform spores and presence of<br />

hymenial algae with Endocarpon.<br />

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