RT Journal Article T1 Resolving the phylogenetic relationship between Parmotrema crinitum and Parmotrema perlatum populations A1 Stelate, Ayoub A1 Prado Millán, Ruth Del A1 Alors, David A1 Tahiri, Hikmat A1 Dulare Devi, Pradeep Divakar A1 Crespo De Las Casas, Ana María AB The widespread species Parmotrema crinitum (Ach.) M. Choisy and Parmotrema perlatum (Huds.) M. Choisy are mainly distinguished by their reproductive strategies. While P. crinitum propagates by isidia, P. perlatum produces soredia. In this study, we aim to evaluate the phylogenetic relationship between both species and to critically examine their species boundaries. To this purpose, 46 samples belonging to P. crinitum and P. perlatum were used in our analysis, including 22 for which we studied the morphology and chemistry, before extracting their DNA. We used 35 sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS) of Parmotrema perlatum from Europe and Africa (20 of which were newly generated), and 11 of Parmotrema crinitum from Europe, North America and North Africa (two newly generated). Additionally, 28 sequences of several species from Parmotrema were included in the ITS dataset. The ITS data matrix was analyzed using different approaches, such as traditional phylogeny (maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses), genetic distances, automatic barcode gap discovery (ABGD) and the coalescent-based method poisson tree processes (PTP), in order to test congruence among results. Our results indicate that all samples referred to P. crinitum and P. perlatum nested in a well-supported monophyletic clade, but phylogenetic relationships among them remain unresolved. Delimitations inferred from PTP, ABGD and genetic distance analyses were comparable and suggested that P. crinitum and P. perlatum belong to the same lineage. Interestingly, two samples of P. perlatum separate in a different monophyletic clade, which is supported as a different lineage by all the analyses. PB Cambridge University Press SN 0024-2829 YR 2022 FD 2022-07-29 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71909 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71909 LA eng NO Stelate, A., Prado Millán, R., Alors, D. et al. «Resolving the Phylogenetic Relationship between Parmotrema Crinitum and Parmotrema Perlatum Populations». The Lichenologist, vol. 54, n.o 3-4, julio de 2022, pp. 183-94. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282922000147. NO CRUE-CSIC (Acuerdos Transformativos 2022) NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Banco de Santander DS Docta Complutense RD 17 abr 2025