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Evolutionary relationships of membrers of the generaTaphrina, Protomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, and related taxa within the archiascomycetes: Integrated analysis of genotypic and phenotypic characters

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To study the phylogeny and evolution of archiascomycetes, we determined the full sequence of the nuclear 18S rRNA gene from 14Taphrina species and 2Protomyces species, and the partial sequence ofSchizosaccharomyces japonicus var.japonicus. The sequences were phylogenetically analyzed by the neighbor-joining, maximum parsimony, and maximum-likelihood methods. We also looked at their principal phenotypic characters and genotypic character. Relationships within the Ascomycota are concordant with the previously published phylogenies inferred from 18S rDNA sequence divergence and divide the archi-, hemi-and euascomycetes into distinct major lineages. All the trees show that, within the archiascomycete lineage, 11 of the 14Taphrina species and the 2Protomyces species are monophyletic. A core groups ofTaphrina andProtomyces is always monophyletic. The evidence from molecular and phenotypic characters such as cell wall sugar composition, ubiquinone, cell wall ultrastructure, and mode of conidium ontogeny, strongly suggests that ‘T’. californica CBS 374.39, ‘T’. maculans CBS 427.69 and ‘T’. farlowii CBS 376.39 should be excluded from the archiascomycete lineage. ‘Taphrina’ farlowii CBS 376.39 groups withCandida albicans in the Saccharomycetales, whereas ‘T’. californica CBS 374.39 and ‘T’. maculans CBS 427.69 have a basidiomycete affinity and group with Tremellalean members in the hymenomycete lineage.Schizosaccharomyces is monophyletic. The strictly anamorphic yeastSaitoella complicata groups with the apothecial ascomyceteNeolecta vitellina rather than theTaphrina/Protomyces branch.

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    Wellyzar Sjamsuridzal, Yoshito Tajiri, Hiromi Nishida, Ta Bich Thuan, Hiroko Kawasaki, Aiko Hirata, Akira Yokota & Junta Sugiyama

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Sjamsuridzal, W., Tajiri, Y., Nishida, H. et al. Evolutionary relationships of membrers of the generaTaphrina, Protomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, and related taxa within the archiascomycetes: Integrated analysis of genotypic and phenotypic characters. Mycoscience 38, 267–280 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02464084

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