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Volume 7, Issue 11

The taxonomy of the complex: a phylogenomic approach Open Access

Abstract

The medically relevant species complex has a variety of phenotypic presentations but shows relatively little genetic differences. Conventional barcodes, such as the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region or the beta-tubulin gene, are not able to completely resolve the relationships between these closely related taxa. , and are currently accepted as separate species. However, the status of certain variants, including the morphotypes and and the morphotype , remains to be deciphered. We conducted the first phylogenomic analysis of the species complex by studying 3105 core genes of 18 new strains from the BCCM/IHEM culture collection and nine publicly available genomes. Our analyses revealed a highly resolved phylogenomic tree with six separate clades. , and were confirmed in their status of species. The morphotypes and all grouped in their own respective clade with high support, suggesting that these morphotypes should be reinstituted to the species-level. Robinson-Foulds distance analyses showed that a combination of two markers (a ubiquitin-protein transferase and a MYB DNA-binding domain-containing protein) can mirror the phylogeny obtained using genomic data, and thus represent potential new markers to accurately distinguish the species belonging to the complex.

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Keyword(s): dermatophytes , fungi , gene marker , mycopathology , phylogenomics and Trichophyton rubrum
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • ULiege (Award “Crédit de démarrage 2012” SFRD-12/04)
    • Principle Award Recipient: DenisBaurain
  • B2/191/P2/BCCM GEN-ERA (Award B2/191/P2/BCCM GEN-ERA)
    • Principle Award Recipient: PierreBecker
© 2021 The Authors
  • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License.
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