Six Newly Recorded Fungal Taxa from Freshwater Niche in Korea

Hyo Jin Lim; Thuong T T Nguyen; Hyang Burm Lee

doi:10.1080/12298093.2020.1862472

Six Newly Recorded Fungal Taxa from Freshwater Niche in Korea

Mycobiology. 2020 Dec 29;49(2):105-121. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2020.1862472. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Hyo Jin Lim¹, 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

Six interesting fungal strains were isolated during a survey of fungal diversity associated with freshwater; these strains were designated as CNUFC YJW2-22, CNUFC MSW11-6-2, CNUFC HRS5-3, CNUFC MSW242-6, CNUFC DMW2-2, and CNUFC CPWS-1. Based on a polyphasic approach including phylogenetic analyses of internal transcribed space (ITS), large subunit (LSU), beta-tubulin (BenA), and calmodulin (CaM) gene sequences, morphological analyses, the six strains were found to be identical to Acremonium guillematii, Cadophora novi-eboraci, Lectera nordwiniana, Mycoarthris corallina, Talaromyces siamensis, and Tetracladium globosum, respectively. To our knowledge, these are the first records of the rare Lectera, Mycoarthris, and Tetracladium genera in Korea, and the first reports of A. guillematii, C. novi-eboraci, L. nordwiniana, M. corallina, T. siamensis, and Te. globosum in a freshwater environment.

Keywords: Ascomycetes; freshwater; morphology; phylogeny; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by Chonnam National University [Grant number: 2017-2827]. This work was in part supported by the Graduate Program for the Undiscovered Taxa of Korea funded by NIBR, and in part by the Project on Discovery of Fungi from Freshwater and Collection of Fungarium funded by NNIBR of the Ministry of Environment (MOE).