A molecular re-evaluation of Parmelia encryptata with notes on its distribution

• Published in: The Lichenologist (London) 2021-07, Vol.53 (4), p.341-345
• Main Authors: Ossowska, Emilia Anna, Guzow-Krzemińska, Beata, Szymczyk, Rafał, Kukwa, Martin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Fast Fourier transformations; Forests; Fourier transforms; Nucleotide sequence; Parmelia; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Rare species; Short Communication
• ISSN: 0024-2829; 1096-1135
• DOI: 10.1017/S0024282921000219

Natural forests are vanishing along with often unique and rare species of various groups of associated organisms and the rich biodiversity (e.g. Sylvester et al. 2017; Łubek et al. 2018). The newly generated sequences and selected representatives of Parmelia spp. were automatically aligned using MAFFT (Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform; Katoh et al. 2002) as implemented in UGENE (Okonechnikov et al. 2012), followed by elimination of terminal ends. The phylogenetic analyses showed that two sequences (MN387037 and MN387038) previously labelled as P. sulcata from Białowieża Forest in Poland (Singh et al. 2019) clustered with P. encryptata in a well-supported clade including the sequence of the type (Supplementary Material Fig. The type of rhizine is an important feature that distinguishes another morphologically similar species, P. barrenoae, from P. sulcata s. str. [...]the abundance of squarrose in proportion to simple rhizines might be a diagnostic feature which is worth considering in the identification of P. encryptata.