<p><strong>Molecular phylogeny and morphology of <em>Cunninghamella guizhouensis </em>sp. nov. (Cunninghamellaceae, Mucorales), from soil in Guizhou, China</strong></p>

Abstract

During a survey of keratinolytic fungi in China, three Cunninghamella strains were isolated. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS and ITS+LSU+EF-1α sequence data showed that these strains constitute a new species related to C. blakesleeana, C. bigelovii, C. multiverticillata and C. phaeospora. The new species differs from C. multiverticillata and C. phaeospora in the shape and size of its teminal and lateral vesicles and can be distinguished from C. blakesleeana and C. bigelovii by the absent of zygosporangia, and the shape and size of it sporangioles. The results of phylogenetic and morphological analyses indicate that the three strains are a new species of Cunninghamella. Descriptions and illustrations of this novel species are provided in this paper.

Outline and divergence time of subkingdom Mucoromyceta: two new phyla, five new orders, six new families and seventy-three new species

“…7). However, morphologically C. guizhouensis differs from C. arrhiza by producing monopodial and verticillate sporangiophores, and globose to subglobose versicles (Zhang et al . 2020).…”

“…Beijing, 40°39'35"N, 117°16'35"E, from soil sample, 31 July 2021, Heng Zhao (living culture XY08047).GenBank accession numbers: OL678142 and OL678143.Notes: Cunninghamella arrhiza is closely related to C. guizhouensis Zhi.Y.Zhang et al based on phylogenetic analysis of ITS rDNA sequences (Fig.7). However, morphologically C. guizhouensis differs from C. arrhiza by producing monopodial and verticillate sporangiophores, and globose to subglobose versicles(Zhang et al 2020). Cunninghamella guttata H. Zhao, Y.C.Dai & X.Y.…”

Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic evidence reveal two new species of Acremonium (Hypocreales, Sordariomycetes)

“…For BI analysis was conducted with MrBayes v3.2 (Ronquist et al 2012) and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations; ML analysis was performed using IQ-TREE v1.6.11 (Nguyen et al 2015), as outlined in Li et al (2022). All analyses were performed in PhyloSuite V1.16 (Zhang et al 2020b).…”

Two New Species in the Family Cunninghamellaceae from China

“…Traditional morphologies for the classification of this genus include colonies, sporangiophores, vesicles, and sporangiola [ 22 ]. It is now comprised of 14 species and three varieties [ 22 , 23 ].…”