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Cladophialophora abundans, a novel species of Chaetothyriales isolated from the natural environment

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A novel species of Cladophialophora is described from the natural environment of the mangrove land crab (Ucides cordatus) along the coast, and from plant sources in Brazil. It is morphologically very similar to Cladophialophora bantiana, though with moderately melanized conidia produced in strongly coherent and poorly branched chains which arise directly from undifferentiated hyphae, but deviates unambiguously on the basis of molecular phylogeny. The species has a maximum growth temperature of 36 °C and seems to be a strict saprobe.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to Michel de Vries, Desiree Smits, Ghada Omer and Somayeh Dolatabadi for technical assistance in laboratory work and during sequencing. Laboratory work was funded by grant KNAW-Stimuleringsfonds project “DNA-barcoding the CBS Collections”. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Pei-Ying Feng

  2. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, P. O. Box 85167, 3508 AD, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Pei-Ying Feng, G. S. de Hoog, A. H. G. Gerrits van den Ende, J. B. Stielow, H. Badali & V. A. Vicente

  3. Department of Basic Pathology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    G. S. de Hoog & V. A. Vicente

  4. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    G. S. de Hoog

  5. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    G. S. de Hoog

  6. Research Center for Medical Mycology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

    G. S. de Hoog

  7. Shanghai Institute of Medical Mycology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

    G. S. de Hoog

  8. Department of Parasitology and Mycology, and Cancer Molecular Pathology Research Center, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

    M. J. Najafzadeh

  9. Invasive Fungi Research Center / Molecular and Cell Biology Research Centre, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

    H. Badali

  10. Department of Zoology and Molecular Ecology and Parasitology, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    W. A. Boeger

  11. Laboratório de Ecologia Molecular e Parasitologia Evolutiva, Grupo Integrado de Aqűicultura e Estudos Ambientais, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    W. A. Boeger

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Feng, PY., de Hoog, G.S., Najafzadeh, M.J. et al. Cladophialophora abundans, a novel species of Chaetothyriales isolated from the natural environment. Mycol Progress 13, 381–391 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-013-0924-4

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