TY  - JOUR
A1  - Buaya, Anthony Tumenez
A1  - Thines, Marco
T1  - Miracula moenusica, a new member of the holocarpic parasitoid genus from the invasive freshwater diatom Pleurosira laevis
T2  - Fungal systematics and evolution
N2  - Holocarpic oomycetes are poorly known but widespread parasites in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Most of the holocarpic species seem to belong to clades that diverge before the two crown lineages of the oomycetes, the Saprolegniomycetes and the Peronosporomycetes. Recently, the genus Miracula was described to accommodate Miracula helgolandica, a holocarpic parasitoid of Pseudo-nitzschia diatoms, which received varying support for its placement as the earliest-diverging oomycete lineage. In the same phylogenetic reconstruction, Miracula helgolandica was grouped with some somewhat divergent sequences derived from environmental sequencing, indicating that Miracula would not remain monotypic. Here, a second species of Miracula is reported, which was found as a parasitoid in the limnic centric diatom Pleurosira leavis. Its life-cycle stages are described and depicted in this study and its phylogenetic placement in the genus Miracula revealed. As a consequence, the newly discovered species is introduced as Miracula moenusica.
KW  - diatom parasites
KW  - holocarpic oomycetes
KW  - life-cycle
KW  - phylogeny
KW  - taxonomy
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55314
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-553145
SN  - 2589-3831
N1  - Fungal Systematics and Evolution is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
VL  - 4
IS  - 19
SP  - 35
EP  - 40
PB  - Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute
CY  - Utrecht
ER  -