02251nas a2200169   4500008004100000020001400041245009600055210006900151260001100220300001200231490000800243520163500251100003201886700002501918700002001943856011801963       2009                        eng d  a0953-756200aMultigene phylogeny of filamentous ambrosia fungi associated with ambrosia and bark beetles0 aMultigene phylogeny of filamentous ambrosia fungi associated wit  cAugust  a822-8350 v1133 aMost 'ambrosia' fungi are members of a heterogeneous group of ophiostomatoids that includes the anamorph genera Ambrosiella, Raffaelea and Dryadomyces. The taxonomy of these fungi based on morphological features has been complicated by these features being poorly descriptive and having evolved convergently. In this work we report maximum parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of a multigene dataset (nSSU rDNA, nLSU rDNA and [beta]-tubulin gene) from sixty-seven taxa that include members of genera Ambrosiella, Raffaelea and Dryadomyces and a diverse set of ophiostomatoid relatives. We discuss the phylogenetic status of genus Ambrosiella and its relationships with representatives of Ophiostomatales teleomorph and anamorph genera. our analysis shows that ten of the thirteen species that had been assigned to the genus Ambrosiella are related to the teleomorph genera Grosmannia or Ophiostoma, within the Ophiostomatales. The multigene analysis and expanded taxon samplings provide a higher resolution for the species phylogeny and clarify detailed relationships between Ambrosiella associates of ambrosia and bark beetles and the closely related species of genera Raffaelea and Dryadomyces. We discuss difficulties in using the morphology of conidiophores and the mode of conidiogenesis to re-define the phylogenetic classification of Ambrosiella species. Finally, we report a correlation between the molecular classification of Ophiostomatales-related species of Ambrosiella and Raffaelea and their ecological niches. [copyright] 2009 The British Mycological Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.1 aAlamouti, Sepideh, Massoumi1 aTsui, Clement, K. M.1 aBreuil, Colette  uhttps://weevil.myspecies.info/multigene-phylogeny-filamentous-ambrosia-fungi-associated-ambrosia-and-bark-beetles