Aspergillus P. Micheli ex Haller.

Index Fungorum number: IF 7548; MycoBank number: MB 7548

Notes – Aspergillus is the largest genus in Aspergillaceae contains more than 700 accepted species and divided into 25 sections (Houbraken et al. 2020; Species Fungorum 2021). Aspergillus section Sparsi is typified by A. sparsus and comprised four species were isolated from soil substrate (Raper and Thom 1944). Members of Aspergillus section Sparsi are commonly found in soil and their characterized by produced large globose conidia and irregular split with age (Smith 1956; Mares et al. 2008; Chen et al. 2016). Most species in this section are identified by pigment ranging from light grey to olive-buff (Varga et al. 2010). We follow the latest treatment and update accounts of Aspergillus in (Houbraken et al. 2020) (Fig. 1).

Figure 1 – Phylogram generated from IQ-TREE maximum likelihood analysis based on combined BenA, CaM and ITS sequence data for Aspergillus subramanianii and related species within the ser. Sclerotiorum. 11 sequences are included in the analysis which comprises 1902 characters (547 characters for BenA, 800 characters for CaM, 555 characters for ITS) after alignment. The evolutionary model TNe+G4 was used for IQ tree analysis. RAxML analysis and Bayesian inference was implemented with the GTR+I+G model. A. robustus (CBS 428.77) was used as the outgroup taxa. The bestscoring IQ tree with a final likelihood value of − 5622.236 is presented. The matrix had 349 distinct alignment patterns, with 9.96% of undetermined characters or gaps. Estimated base frequencies were as follows: A=0.250, C=0.250, G=0.250, T=0.250; substitution rates: AC=1.00000, AG=2.88720, AT=1.00000, CG=1.00000, CT=5.76158, GT=1.00000; gamma distribution shape parameter α=0.388. Branch support values from 1000 non-parametric bootstraps for IQ-TREE (ML-BS) and RAxML (R-BS) and posterior probability values from the Bayesian analysis (BYPP) are shown at the nodes. Bootstrap support values for ML equal to or greater than 70% are given above the nodes. Bayesian posterior probabilities (BYPP) equal to or greater than 0.90 are given above the nodes. Extype strains are in bold and newly generated sequences are in blue bold

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