Journal
POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 1197-1204Publisher
HARD
DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/61230
Keywords
foreign fungus; fungal biogeography; genetic diversity; molecular markers
Categories
Funding
- Polish National Science Center [DEC-2011/03/N/NZ9/04562]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Clathrus archeri is a saprotrophic fungus native to Australia and New Zealand and known in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century. In Poland, C. archeri was recorded for the first time in 1973 and since then basidiomata of this fungus have been recorded almost 90 times, mostly in the southern part of the country. In the present study, we update the distribution of C. archeri in Poland and include the latest records from Central Poland. We show a significant increase in the number of C. archeri observations in recent years (R-2 = 0.400, p<0.001). Our research shows that precipitation should be regarded as an important factor in the spread of C. archeri. Additionally, intraspecific genetic variability of nrRNA of C. archeri from different localities in Poland has been determined. Obtained results indicate zero to low levels of diversity in the nrITS and nrLSU sequences obtained from 16 C. archeri basidiomata from different localities in Poland (evolutionary divergence between sequences up to 0.002 and 0.001 for nrITS and nrLSU, respectively). Finally we identify some limitations in this research and make suggestions for future studies of pathways of the distribution of this fungus in the new area.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available