A phylogenetic study of commercial Chinese truffles and their allies: Taxonomic implications

Phylogenetic relationships of commercial Chinese truffles and their allies were investigated mainly by morphological studies and analyses of the sequences of ITS regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Two species, Tuber indicum and T. himalayense, closely related to the European T. melanosporum (the Peri...

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Published inFEMS microbiology letters Vol. 245; no. 1; pp. 85 - 92
Main Authors Zhang, Li-fang, Yang, Zhu L., Song, D.S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Elsevier B.V 01.04.2005
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Blackwell
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Ascomycota - classification
Ascomycota - genetics
Ascomycota - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Biological evolution
China
DNA, Fungal - analysis
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - analysis
Excavation
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
fungal taxonomy
Gene sequencing
Internal transcribed spacer
internal transcribed spacers
Microbiology
Molecular Sequence Data
Mycological Typing Techniques
Mycology
Nucleotide sequence
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
provenance
Ribosomal DNA
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Species
Species Specificity
Synonyms
Systematics
taxonomy
truffles (edible fungi)
Tuber
Tuber (genus)
Tuber himalayense
Tuber indicum
Tuber melanosporum
Tuber pseudohimalayense
Tuber sinense
China
Asia
China, People's Rep
Synonyms
Tuber
Systematics
Internal transcribed spacer
Fungi
Sequential analysis
Ribosomal RNA
Taxonomy
Phylogenetic tree
Phylogeny
Thallophyta
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Summary:Phylogenetic relationships of commercial Chinese truffles and their allies were investigated mainly by morphological studies and analyses of the sequences of ITS regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Two species, Tuber indicum and T. himalayense, closely related to the European T. melanosporum (the Perigord Truffle), are recognized among commercial Chinese black truffles. Both T. pseudohimalayense and T. sinense should be regarded as synonyms of T. indicum. Tuber species producing excavated ascomata are not monophyletic, suggesting that excavation of ascomata may have evolved more than once, or evolved once during the evolution of truffle species and then was lost once during the evolution of Tuber species.
Bibliography:Edited by B. Paul
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ISSN:0378-1097
1574-6968
DOI:10.1016/j.femsle.2005.02.028