Seven Undescribed Aspergillus Species from Different Niches in Korea

Monmi Pangging; Thuong T T Nguyen; Hyang Burm Lee

doi:10.1080/12298093.2022.2116158

Seven Undescribed Aspergillus Species from Different Niches in Korea

Mycobiology. 2022 Sep 5;50(4):189-202. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2022.2116158. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Monmi Pangging¹, Thuong T T Nguyen¹, Hyang Burm Lee¹

Affiliation

¹ Environmental Microbiology Lab, Department of Agricultural Biological Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

Abstract

An investigation of species of the genus Aspergillus present in arthropod, freshwater, and soil led to the discovery of seven undescribed species in Korea. Based on their morphological characteristics and molecular phylogeny analyses using a combined data set of β-tubulin (BenA) and calmodulin (CaM) sequences, the isolated strains CNUFC IGS2-5, CNUFC YJ1-19, CNUFC WD27, CNUFC U8-70, CNUFC AS2-24, CNUFC S32-1, and CNUFC U7-48, were identified as Aspergillus brunneoviolaceus, A. capensis, A. floccosus, A. inflatus, A. parvulus, A. polyporicola, and A. spelaeus, respectively. In the present study, the detailed morphological descriptions and phylogenetic relationships of these species are provided.

Keywords: Aspergillus; arthropod; freshwater; morphology; phylogeny; soil.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Project on Survey and Discovery of Indigenous Fungal Species of Korea, funded by the NIBR [202102201], and by the Project on Discovery of Fungi from Freshwater and Collection of Fungarium, funded by the NNIBR of the Ministry of Environment [202101203]. It was also supported in part by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2022R1I1A3068645).