Person:
Jiménez Rico, Víctor

First Name

Víctor

Last Name

Jiménez Rico

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/77536

Affiliation

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Faculty / Institute

Farmacia

Department

Farmacología, Farmacognosia y Botánica

Area

Botánica

Identifiers

Full item page

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 10 of 14

Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa
(IMA Fungus, 2018) Zamora, Juan Carlos; Svensson, Måns; Kirschner, Roland; Olariaga, Ibai; Ryman, Svengunnar; Parra, Luis Alberto; Geml, József; Rosling, Anna; Adamčík, Slavomír; Ahti, Teuvo; Aime, M. Catherine; Ainsworth, A. Martyn; Albert, László; Albertó, Edgardo; Altés García, Alberto; Ageev, Dmitry; Agerer, Reinhard; Aguirre-Hudson, Begoña; Ammirati, Joe; Andersson, Harry; Angelini, Claudio; Antonín, Vladimír; Aoki, Takayuki; Aptroot, André; Argaud, Didier; Arguello Sosa, Blanca Imelda; Aronsen, Arne; Arup, Ulf; Asgari, Bita; Assyov, Boris; Atienza, Violeta; Bandini, Ditte; Baptista-Ferreira, João Luís; Baral, Hans-Otto; Baroni, Tim; Barreto, Robert Weingart; Beker, Henry; Bell, Ann; Bellanger, Jean-Michel; Bellù, Francesco; Bemmann, Martin; Bendiksby, Mika; Bendiksen, Egil; Bendiksen, Katriina; Benedek, Lajos; Bérešová-Guttová, Anna; Berger, Franz; Berndt, Reinhard; Bernicchia, Annarosa; Biketova, Alona Yu.; Bizio, Enrico; Bjork, Curtis; Boekhout, Teun; Boertmann, David; Böhning, Tanja; Boittin, Florent; Boluda, Carlos G.; Boomsluiter, Menno W.; Borovička, Jan; Brandrud, Tor Erik; Braun, Uwe; Brodo, Irwin; Bulyonkova, Tatiana; Burdsall, Harold H.; Buyck, Bart; Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa; Calatayud, Vicent; Callac, Philippe; Campo, Emanuele; Candusso, Massimo; Capoen, Brigitte; Carbó, Joaquim; Carbone, Matteo; Castañeda-Ruiz, Rafael F.; Castellano, Michael A.; Chen, Jie; Clerc, Philippe; Consiglio, Giovanni; Corriol, Gilles; Courtecuisse, Régis; Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María; Cripps, Cathy; Crous, Pedro W.; da Silva, Gladstone Alves; da Silva, Meiriele; Dam, Marjo; Dam, Nico; Dämmrich, Frank; Das, Kanad; Davies, Linda; De Crop, Eske; De Kesel, Andre; De Lange, Ruben; De Madrignac BonziBárbara, Bárbara; de la Cruz, Thomas Edison E.; Delgat, Lynn; Demoulin, Vincent; Desjardin, Dennis E.; Diederich, Paul; Dima, Bálint; Dios, Maria Martha; Douanla-Meli, Clovis; Douglas, Brian; Drechsler-Santos, Elisandro Ricardo; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Dyer, Paul S.; Eberhardt, Ursula; Ertz, Damien; Esteve-Raventós, Fernando; Etayo Salazar, Javier Angel; Evenson, Vera; Eyssartier, Guillaume; Farkas, Edit; Favre, Alain; Fedosova, Anna G.; Filippa, Mario; Finy, Péter; Flakus, Adam; Fos, Simón; Fournier, Jacques; Fraiture, André; Franchi, Paolo; Franco Molano, Ana Esperanza; Friebes, Gernot; Frisch, Andreas; Fryday, Alan; Furci, Giuliana; Galán Márquez, Ricardo; Garbelotto, Matteo; García-Martín, Joaquina María; García Otálora, Mónica A.; García Sánchez, Dania; Gardiennet, Alain; Garnica, Sigisfredo; Garrido Benavent, Isaac; Gates, Genevieve; Lima da Gerlach, Alice Cruz; Ghobad-Nejhad, Masoomeh; Gibertoni, Tatiana B.; Grebenc, Tine; Greilhuber, Irmgard; Grishkan, Bella; Groenewald, Johannes Z.; Grube, Martin; Gruhn, Gérald; Gueidan, Cécile; Gulden, Gro; Gusmão, Luis F. P.; Hafellner, Josef; Hairaud, Michel; Halama, Marek; Hallenberg, Nils; Halling, Roy E.; Hansen, Karen; Harder, Christoffer Bugge; Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob; Helleman, Stip; Henriot, Alain; Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Herve, Raphaël; Hobart, Caroline; Hoffmeister, Mascha; Høiland, Klaus; Holec, Jan; Holien, Håkon; Hughes, Karen; Hubka, Vit; Huhtinen, Seppo; Ivančević, Boris; Jagers, Marian; Jaklitsch, Walter; Jansen, Anna Elise; Jayawardena, Ruvishika S.; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Jeppesen, Thomas Stjernegaard; Jeppson, Mikael; Johnston, Peter; Jørgensen, Per Magnus; Kärnefelt, Ingvar; Kalinina, Liudmila B.; Kantvilas, Gintaras; Karadelev, Mitko; Kasuya, Taiga; Kautmanová, Ivona; Kerrigan, Richard W.; Kirchmair, Martin; Kiyashko, Anna; Knapp, Dániel G.; Knudsen, Henning; Knudsen, Kerry; Knutsson, Tommy; Kolařík, Miroslav; Kõljalg, Urmas; Košuthová, Alica; Koszka, Attila; Kotiranta, Heikki; Kotkova, Vera; Koukol, Ondřej; Kout, Jiří; Kovács, Gábor M.; Kříž, Martin; Kruys, Åsa; Kučera, Viktor; Kudzma, Linas; Kuhar, Francisco; Kukwa, Martin; Kumar, T. K. Arun; Kunca, Vladimír; Kušan, Ivana; Kuyper, Thomas W.; Lado, Carlos; Læssøe, Thomas; Lainé, Patrice; Langer, Ewald; Larsson, Ellen; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Laursen, Gary; Lechat, Christian; Lee, Serena; Lendemer, James C.; Levin, Laura; Lindemann, Uwe; Lindström, Håkan; Liu, Xingzhong; Llarena Hernandez, Regulo Carlos; Llop, Esteve; Locsmándi, Csaba; Lodge, Deborah Jean; Loizides, Michael; Lőkös, László; Luangsa-ard, Jennifer; Lüderitz, Matthias; Lumbsch, Thorsten; Lutz, Matthias; Mahoney, Dan; Malysheva, Ekaterina; Malysheva, Vera; Manimohan, Patinjareveettil; Marin-Felix, Yasmina; Marques, Guilhermina; Martínez-Gil, Rubén; Marson, Guy; Mata, Gerardo; Matheny, P. Brandon; Mathiassen, Geir Harald; Matočec, Neven; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Mehrabi, Mehdi; Melo, Ireneia; Mešić, Armin; Methven, Andrew S.; Miettinen, Otto; Millanes Romero, Ana M.; Miller, Andrew N.; Mitchell, James K.; Moberg, Roland; Moreau, Pierre-Arthur; Moreno, Gabriel; Morozova, Olga; Morte, Asunción; Muggia, Lucia; Muñoz González, Guillermo; Myllys, Leena; Nagy, István; Nagy, László G.; Neves, Maria Alice; Niemelä, Tuomo; Nimis, Pier Luigi; Niveiro, Nicolas; Noordeloos, Machiel E.; Nordin, Anders; Noumeur, Sara Raouia; Novozhilov, Yuri; Nuytinck, Jorinde; Ohenoja, Esteri; Oliveira Fiuza, Patricia; Orange, Alan; Ordynets, Alexander; Ortiz-Santana, Beatriz; Pacheco, Leticia; Pál-Fám, Ferenc; Palacio, Melissa; Palice, Zdeněk; Papp, Viktor; Pärtel, Kadri; Pawlowska, Julia; Paz, Aurelia; Peintner, Ursula; Pennycook, Shaun; Liparini Pereira, Olinto; Pérez Daniëls, Pablo; Pérez-De-Gregorio Capella, Miquel À.; Pérez del Amo, Carlos Manuel; Pérez Gorjón, Sergio; Pérez-Ortega, Sergio; Pérez-Vargas, Israel; Perry, Brian A.; Petersen, Jens H.; Petersen, Ronald H.; Pfister, Donald H.; Phukhamsakda, Chayanard; Piątek, Marcin; Piepenbring, Meike; Pino Bodas, Raquel; Pinzón Esquivel, Juan Pablo; Pirot, Paul; Popov, Eugene S.; Popoff, Orlando; Prieto Álvaro, María; Printzen, Christian; Psurtseva, Nadezhda; Purahong, Witoon; Quijada, Luis; Rambold, Gerhard; Ramírez, Natalia A.; Raja, Huzefa; Raspé, Olivier; Raymundo, Tania; Réblová, Martina; Rebriev, Yury A.; Reyes García, Juan de Dios; Ribes Ripoll, Miguel Ángel; Richard, Franck; Richardson, Mike J.; Robledo, Gerardo Lucio; Rodrigues Barbosa, Flavia; Rodriguez-Caycedo, Cristina; Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela; Ronikier, Anna; Rubio Casas, Luis; Rusevska, Katerina; Saar, Günter; Saar, Irja; Salcedo, Isabel; Salcedo Martínez, Sergio M.; Salvador Montoya, Carlos A.; Sánchez-Ramírez, Santiago; Sandoval-Sierra, J. Vladimir; Santamaria, Sergi; Santana Monteiro, Josiane; Schroers, Hans Josef; Schulz, Barbara; Schmidt-Stohn, Geert; Schumacher, Trond; Senn-Irlet, Beatrice; Ševčíková, Hana; Shchepin, Oleg; Shirouzu, Takashi; Shiryaev, Anton; Siepe, Klaus; Sir, Esteban B.; Sohrabi, Mohammad; Soop, Karl; Spirin, Viacheslav; Spribille, Toby; Stadler, Marc; Stalpers, Joost; Stenroos, Soili; Suija, Ave; Sunhede, Stellan; Svantesson, Sten; Svensson, Sigvard; Svetasheva, Tatyana Yu.; Świerkosz, Krzysztof; Tamm, Heidi; Taskin, Hatira; Taudière, Adrien; Tedebrand, Jan-Olof; Tena Lahoz, Raúl; Temina, Marina; Thell, Arne; Thines, Marco; Thor, Göran; Thüs, Holger; Tibell, Leif; Tibell, Sanja; Timdal, Einar; Tkalčec, Zdenko; Tønsberg, Tor; Trichies, Gérard; Triebel, Dagmar; Tsurykau, Andrei; Tulloss, Rodham E.; Tuovinen, Veera; Ulloa Sosa, Miguel; Urcelay, Carlos; Valade, François; Valenzuela Garza, Ricardo; van den Boom, Pieter; Van Vooren, Nicolas; Vasco-Palacios, Aida M.; Vauras, Jukka; Velasco Santos, Juan Manuel; Vellinga, Else; Verbeken, Annemieke; Vetlesen, Per; Vizzini, Alfredo; Voglmayr, Hermann; Volobuev, Sergey; von Brackel, Wolfgang; Voronina, Elena; Walther, Grit; Watling, Roy; Weber, Evi; Wedin, Mats; Weholt, Øyvind; Westberg, Martin; Yurchenko, Eugene; Zehnálek, Petr; Zhang, Huang; Zhurbenko, Mikhail P.; Ekman, Stefan
Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types permanently link taxonomy (an artificial agreement to classify biological diversity) with nomenclature (an artificial agreement to name biological diversity). Two proposals to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), allowing DNA sequences alone (of any region and extent) to serve as types of taxon names for voucherless fungi (mainly putative taxa from environmental DNA sequences), have been submitted to be voted on at the 11th International Mycological Congress (Puerto Rico, July 2018). We consider various genetic processes affecting the distribution of alleles among taxa and find that alleles may not consistently and uniquely represent the species within which they are contained. Should the proposals be accepted, the meaning of nomenclatural types would change in a fundamental way from physical objects as sources of data to the data themselves. Such changes are conducive to irreproducible science, the potential typification on artefactual data, and massive creation of names with low information content, ultimately causing nomenclatural instability and unnecessary work for future researchers that would stall future explorations of fungal diversity. We conclude that the acceptance of DNA sequences alone as types of names of taxa, under the terms used in the current proposals, is unnecessary and would not solve the problem of naming putative taxa known only from DNA sequences in a scientifically defensible way. As an alternative, we highlight the use of formulas for naming putative taxa (candidate taxa) that do not require any modification of the ICN.
First inventory of lichens and lichenicolous fungi in the Khosrov Forest State Reserve, Armenia
(Flora mediterranea, 2015) Gasparyan, Arsen; Aptroot, Andre; Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa; Otte, Volker; Zakeri, Zakieh; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Araujo, Elena; Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten
In 2015, an international lichenological excursion to Armenia was organized by the Young Biologists Association NGO and Organization for the Phyto-Taxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area. One of the main goals of this excursion was to study lichen diversity of the Khosrov Forest State Reserve. As a result of this inventory, 176 species of lichenized and lichenicolous fungi have been found in the protected area. Out of these, 49 are reported for the first time from Armenia: Acarospora versicolor, Agonimia tristicula, Anema decipiens, Arctomia fascicularis, Arthonia intexta, A. phaeophysciae, Aspicilia cf. glomerulans, A. intermutans, Bacidina arnoldiana, Bagliettoa calciseda, Bilimbia sabuletorum, Blennothallia crispa, Chrysopsora testacea, Collema subflaccidum, Diploschistes gypsaceus, Endocarpon pusillum, Gonohymenia nigritella, G. schleicheri, Gyalolechia juniperina, Immersaria iranica, Lecania rabenhorstii, Lecanora barkmaniana, L. juniperina, L. semipallida, Leprocaulon microscopicum, Llimoniella phaeophysciae, Lobothallia recedens, Peccania coralloides, Peltula euploca, Physconia thorstenii, Piccolia ochrophora, Placidium lacinulatum, Placopyrenium fuscellum, Psorotichia schaereri, Rinodina colobina, R. obnascens, Scytinium gelatinosum, S. turgidum, Solenopsora holophaea, Thermutis velutina, Toninia candida, T. squalida, Tremella phaeophysciae, Usnea lapponica, U. wasmuthii, Verrucaria dolosa, V. macrostoma, Xanthoparmelia protomatrae and X. tinctina.
Fungal Planet 1463 – Punctelia anae Divakar, V.J. Rico & Lumbsch, sp. nov. - Fungal Planet description sheets: 1436–1477
(Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi, 2022) Tan, Y.P.; Bishop-Hurley, S.L.; Shivas, R.G.; Cowan, D.A.; Maggs-Kölling, G.; Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N.; Pinruan, U.; Bransgrove, K.L.; Peña Lastra, Saúl de la; Larsson, E.; Lebel, T.; Mahadevakumar, S.; Mateos, A.; Osieck, E.R.; Rigueiro Rodríguez, Antonio; Sommai, S.; Ajithkumar, K.; Akulov, A.; Anderson, F.E.; Arenas, F.; Balashov, S.; Bañares Baudet, Ángel; Berger, D.K.; Bianchinotti, M.V.; Bien, S.; Bilański, P.; Boxshall, A.-G.; Bradshaw, M.; Broadbridge, J.; Calaça, Francisco J. Simões; Campos Quiroz, C.; Carrasco Fernández, J.; Castro, J.F.; Chaimongkol, S.; Chandranayaka, S.; Chen, Y.; Comben, D.; Dearnaley, J.D.W.; Ferreira Sá, A.S.; Dhileepan, K.; Díaz, M.L.; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Xavier-Santos, S.; Fernández-Bravo, A.; Gené, J.; Guard, F.E.; Guerra, M.; Gunaseelan, S.; Houbraken, J.; Janik-Superson, K.; Jankowiak, R.; Jeppson, M.; Jurjević, Ž.; Kaliyaperumal, M.; Kelly, L.A.; Kezo, K.; Khalid, A.N.; Khamsuntorn, P.; Kidanemariam, D.; Kiran, M.; Lacey, E.; Langer, G.J.; López-Llorca, Luis Vicente; Luangsa-ard, J.J.; Lueangjaroenkit, P.; Lumbsch, H.T.; Maciá-Vicente, Jose G.; Mamatha Bhanu, L.S.; Marney, T.S.; Marqués Gálvez, José Eduardo; Morte, A.; Naseer, A.; Navarro Ródenas, Alfonso; Oyedele, O.; Peters, S.; Piskorski, S.; Quijada, L.; Ramírez, G.H.; Raja, K.; Razzaq, A.; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Rodríguez, A.; Ruszkiewicz-Michalska, M.; Sánchez, R.M.; Santelices, C.; Savitha, A.S.; Serrano, M.; Leonardo-Silva, L.; Solheim, H.; Somrithipol, S.; Sreenivasa, M.Y.; Stępniewska, H.; Strapagiel, D.; Taylor, T.; Torres García, D.; Vauras, J.; Villarreal,, M.; Visagie, C.M.; Wołkowycki, M.; Yingkunchao, W.; Zapora, E.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Crous, P.W.
Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Argentina, Colletotrichum araujiae on leaves, stems and fruits of Araujia hortorum. Australia, Agaricus pateritonsus on soil, Curvularia fraserae on dying leaf of Bothriochloa insculpta, Curvularia millisiae from yellowing leaf tips of Cyperus aromaticus, Marasmius brunneolorobustus on well-rotted wood, Nigrospora cooperae from necrotic leaf of Heteropogon contortus, Penicillium tealii from the body of a dead spider, Pseudocercospora robertsiorum from leaf spots of Senna tora, Talaromyces atkinsoniae from gills of Marasmius crinis-equi and Zasmidium pearceae from leaf spots of Smilax glyciphylla. Brazil, Preussia bezerrensis fromair. Chile, Paraconiothyrium kelleni from the rhizosphere of Fragaria chiloensis subsp. chiloensis f. chiloensis. Finland, Inocybe udicola onsoilinmixedforest with Betula pendula, Populus tremula, Picea abies and Alnus incana. France, Myrmecridium normannianum on dead culm of unidentified Poaceae. Germany, Vexillomyces fraxinicola from symptomless stem wood of Fraxinus excelsior. India, Diaporthe limoniae on infected fruit of Limonia acidissima, Didymella naikii on leaves of Cajanus cajan, and Fulvifomes mangroviensis on basal trunk of Aegiceras corniculatum. Indonesia, Penicillium ezekielii from Zea mays kernels. Namibia, Neocamarosporium calicoremae and Neocladosporium calicoremae on stems of Calicorema capitata, and Pleiochaeta adenolobi on symptomatic leaves of Adenolobus pechuelii. Netherlands, Chalara pteridii on stems of Pteridium aquilinum, Neomackenziella juncicola (incl. Neomackenziella gen. nov.)and Sporidesmiella junci from dead culms of Juncus effusus. Pakistan, Inocybe longistipitata on soil in a Quercus forest. Poland, Phytophthora viadrina from rhizosphere soil of Quercus robur, and Septoria krystynae on leaf spots of Viscum album. Portugal (Azores), Acrogenospora stellata on dead wood or bark. South Africa, Phyllactinia greyiae on leaves of Greyia sutherlandii and Punctelia anae on bark of Vachellia karroo. Spain, Anteaglonium lusitanicum on decaying wood of Prunus lusitanica subsp. lusitanica, Hawksworthiomyces riparius from fluvial sediments, Lophiostoma carabassense endophytic in roots of Limbarda crithmoides, and Tuber mohedanoi from calcareussoils. Spain (Canary Islands), Mycena laurisilvae on stumps and woody debris. Sweden, Elaphomyces geminus from soil under Quercus robur. Thailand, Lactifluus chiangraiensis on soil under Pinus merkusii, Lactifluus nakhonphanomensis and Xerocomus sisongkhramensis on soil under Dipterocarpus trees. Ukraine, Valsonectria robiniae on dead twigs of Robinia hispida. USA, Spiralomyces americanus (incl. Spiralomyces gen. nov.) from office air. Morphological and culture characteristics are supported by DNA barcodes.
Evaluating methodologies for species delimitation: the mismatch between phenotypes and genotypes in lichenized fungi (Bryoria sect. Implexae, Parmeliaceae)
(Persoonia, 2018) Boluda, Carlos G.; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Nadyeina, O.; Myllys, L.; McMullin, R.T.; Zamora, J.C.; Scheidegger, C.; Hawksworth, D.L.
In many lichen-forming fungi, molecular phylogenetic analyses lead to the discovery of cryptic species within traditional morphospecies. However, in some cases, molecular sequence data also questions the separation of phenotypically characterised species. Here we apply an integrative taxonomy approach ‒ including morphological, chemical, molecular, and distributional characters ‒ to re-assess species boundaries in a traditionally speciose group of hair lichens, Bryoria sect. Implexae. We sampled multilocus sequence and microsatellite data from 142 specimens from a broad intercontinental distribution. Molecular data included DNAsequences of the standard fungal markers ITS, IGS, GAPDH, two newly tested loci (FRBi15 and FRBi16), and SSR frequencies from 18 microsatellite markers. Datasets were analysed with Bayesian and maximum likelihood phylogenetic reconstruction, phenogram reconstruction, STRUCTURE Bayesian clustering, principal coordinate analysis, haplotype network, and several different species delimitation analyses (ABGD, PTP, GMYC, and DISSECT).Additionally, past population demography and divergence times are estimated. The different approaches to species recognition do not support the monophyly of the 11 currently accepted morphospecies, and rather suggest the reduction of these to four phylogenetic species. Moreover, three of these are relatively recent in origin and cryptic, including phenotypically and chemically variable specimens. Issues regarding the integration of an evolutionary perspective into taxonomic conclusions in species complexes, which have undergone recent diversification, are discussed. The four accepted species, all epitypified by sequenced material, are Bryoria fuscescens, B. glabra, B. kockiana, and B. pseudofuscescens. Ten species rank names are reduced to synonymy. In the absence of molecular data, they can be recorded as the B. fuscescens complex. Intraspecific phenotype plasticity and factors affecting the speciation of different morphospecies in this group of Bryoria are outlined.
A revision of species of the Parmelia saxatilis complex in the Iberian Peninsula with the description of P. rojoi, a new potentially relict species
(Lichenologist, 2020) Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Lumbsch, HT; Garrido Huéscar, Elena; Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María
The species of the Parmelia saxatilis complex occurring in the Iberian Peninsula were revised. Eight species are accepted, including a new species found in southern Spain, described as P. rojoi A. Crespo, V. J. Rico & Divakar. The new species, which forms a sister-group relationship with P. saxatilis s. str., is rare in the Iberian Peninsula and is restricted to higher altitudes of northern and central Spain. Parmelia rojoi differs from P. saxatilis by generally narrower isidia and a more fragile thallus. The segregation of the new species is also supported by ITS (rDNA) and Mcm7 (MS456) phylogeny and multispecies coalescent-based approaches, including StarBEAST and BP&P. Furthermore, the divergence of P. rojoi is dated back to the Pleistocene, c. 2.13 Ma. A key to the identification of species from the P. saxatilis complex with their diagnostic features is provided. All species of the complex known from Europe are also found in the Iberian Peninsula. We hypothesize that P. rojoi is a relict species that survived the Pleistocene glaciations in refugia in Spain and has been unable to extend its distributional range in postglacial periods.
Additions to the lichenized and lichenicolous mycobiota of Armenia
(Herzogia, 2016) Gasparyan, Arsen; Aptroot, Andre; Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa; Otte, Volker; Zakeri, Zakieh; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Araujo, Elena; Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten
Two hundred and thirty-three lichenized and lichenicolous fungi are reported here from Armenia. Eighty-nine are new records for the country. Fifty-three taxa were found on basaltic rocks of the ancient megalithic monument “Zorats Karer”. The new combination Protoparmeliopsis bolcana (Pollini) Lumbsch is introduced.
Checklist of the lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Sierra Nevada (Spain).
(Botanica Complutensis, 2022) Gómez Bolea, Antonio; Rodríguez Arribas, Clara; Casares, Manuel; Prieto, María; Muriel, Sergio; Force, Laura; Chiva, Salvador; Chesa, María José; Dumitru, Cristina; Atienza, Violeta; Burgaz Moreno, Ana Rosa; Jiménez Rico, Víctor
A checklist of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Sierra Nevada (Granada, southeast Spain) is presented, fruit of the collecting field trip carried out by the Spanish Lichen Society (SEL), complemented with literature references. The authors identified 194 taxa (171 lichens and 23 lichenicolous fungi). As a result of these identifications, 46 lichens and nine lichenicolous fungi are reported for the first time in Sierra Nevada. To date, the catalogue includes 551 taxa (528 lichens and 23 lichenicolous fungi). We confirm both the scarce presence of terricolous lichens in the cryoromediterranean belt and the absence of alpine belt terricolous lichens.
Neoprotoparmelia gen. nov. and Maronina (Lecanorales, Protoparmelioideae): species description and generic delimitation using DNA barcodes and phenotypical characters
(MycoKeys, 2018) Singh, Garima.; Aptroot, André; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Otte, Jürgen; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar; Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María; da Silva Cáceres, Marcela Eugenia; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Schmitt, Imke
Multilocus phylogenetic studies revealed a high level of cryptic diversity within the lichen-forming fungal genus Maronina (Protoparmelioideae, Parmeliaceae). Coalescent-based species delimitation suggested that most of the cryptic molecular lineages warranted recognition as separate species. Here we study the morphology and chemistry of these taxa and formally describe eight new species based on phenotypical and molecular characters. Further, we evaluate the use of ITS rDNA as a DNA barcode for identifying species in this genus. For the first time, we obtained an ITS sequence of Maronina australiensis, the type species of the genus and showed that it is phylogenetically not closely related to species currently placed in Maronina or Protoparmelia. We assembled a dataset of 66 ITS sequences to assess the interspecies genetic distances amongst the twelve Maronina species using ITS as DNA barcode. We found that Maronina and Protoparmelia form a supported monophyletic group whereas M. australiensis is sister to both. We therefore propose a new genus Neoprotoparmelia to accommodate the tropical-subtropical species within Protoparmelioideae, with Neoprotoparmelia corallifera as the type, N. amerisidiata, N. australisidiata, N. brasilisidiata, N. capensis, N. crassa, N. pauli, N. plurisporibadia and N. siamisidiata as new species and N. capitata, N. isidiata, N. multifera, N. orientalis and N. pulchra as new proposed combinations. We provide a key to Neoprotoparmelia and confirm the use of ITS for accurately identifying species in this group.
Antibacterial Nanostructured Ti Coatings by Magnetron Sputtering: from Laboratory Scales to Industrial Reactors
(Nanomaterials, 2019) Álvarez, Rafael; Muñoz-Piña, Sandra; González, Maria U.; Izquierdo Barba, Isabel; Fernández-Martín, Iván; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Arcos Navarrete, Daniel; García-Valenzuela, Aurelio; Palmero, Alberto; Vallet Regí, María Dulce Nombre; González-Elipe, Agustín R.; García-Martín, José R.
Based on an already tested laboratory procedure, a new magnetron sputtering methodology to simultaneously coat two-sides of large area implants (up to ~15 cm2) with Ti nanocolumns in industrial reactors has been developed. By analyzing the required growth conditions in a laboratory setup, a new geometry and methodology have been proposed and tested in a semi-industrial scale reactor. A bone plate (Depuy Synthes) and a pseudo-rectangular bone plate extracted from a patient have been coated following the new methodology, obtaining that their osteoblast proliferation efficiency and antibacterial functionality were equivalent to the coatings grown in the laboratory reactor on small areas. In particular, two kinds of experiments have been performed: analysis of bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, and osteoblasts-bacteria competitive in vitro growth scenarios. In all these cases, the coatings show an opposite behavior towards osteoblast and bacterial proliferation, demonstrating that the proposed methodology represents a valid approach for industrial production and practical application of nanostructured titanium coatings.
Discovering cryptic species in the Aspiciliella intermutans complex (Megasporaceae, Ascomycota) – First results using gene concatenation and coalescent-based species tree approaches
(PLOS ONE, 2019) Zakeri, Zakieh; Otte, Volker; Sipman, Harrie; Malíček, Jiří; Cubas Domínguez, M. Paloma; Jiménez Rico, Víctor; Lenzová, Veronika; Svoboda, David; Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar
Taxonomic identifications in some groups of lichen-forming fungi have been challenge largely due to the scarcity of taxonomically relevant features and limitations of morphological and chemical characters traditionally used to distinguish closely related taxa. Delineating species boundaries in closely related species or species complexes often requires a range of multisource data sets and comprehensive analytical methods. Here we aim to examine species boundaries in a group of saxicolous lichen forming fungi, the Aspiciliella intermutans complex (Megasporaceae), widespread mainly in the Mediterranean. We gathered DNA sequences of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nuITS), the nuclear large subunit (nuLSU), the mitochondrial small subunit (mtSSU) ribosomal DNA, and the DNA replication licensing factor MCM7 from 80 samples mostly from Iran, Caucasia, Greece and eastern Europe. We used a combination of phylogenetic strategies and a variety of empirical, sequence-based species delimitation approaches to infer species boundaries in this group. The latter included: the automatic barcode gap discovery (ABGD), the multispecies coalescent approach *BEAST and Bayesian Phylogenetics and Phylogeography (BPP) program. Different species delimitation scenarios were compared using Bayes factors species delimitation analysis. Furthermore, morphological, chemical, ecological and geographical features of the sampled specimens were examined. Our study uncovered cryptic species diversity in A. intermutans and showed that morphology-based taxonomy may be unreliable, underestimating species diversity in this group of lichens. We identified a total of six species-level lineages in the A. intermutans complex using inferences from multiple empirical operational criteria. We found little corroboration between morphological and ecological features with our proposed candidate species, while secondary metabolite data do not corroborate tree topology. The present study on the A. intermutans species-complex indicates that the genus Aspiciliella, as currently circumscribed, is more diverse in Eurasia than previously expected.