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Studies on keratinophilic fungi. Ix: Neoarachnotheca gen. nov. and a new species of Nannizziopsis

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Neoarachnotheca is proposed as a new genus of Onygenales. The outstanding generic characteristics are white, spherical ascomata with a wall formed by a network of hyphae and spherical, subhyaline ascospores with an irregular sheath. Nt. keratinophila, the type species, characterized by wavy peridial hyphae has been isolated from marine and river sediments and Myriodontium keratinophilum is its anamorph. Nannizziopsis tropicalis is proposed as a new species based on a strain isolated from soil in Burundi. RFLPs analysis of ITS and 5.8S rDNA support these proposals. The differences with related genera are discussed.

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  1. Unitat de Microbiologia, Departament de Ciències Médiques Básiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43201, Reus, Spain

    J. Cano, P. Vidal & J. Guarro

  2. Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, 48-832, Katowice, Poland

    K. Ulfig

  3. Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43005, Tarragona, Spain

    J.M. Guillamon

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Cano, J., Ulfig, K., Guillamon, J. et al. Studies on keratinophilic fungi. Ix: Neoarachnotheca gen. nov. and a new species of Nannizziopsis. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 72, 149–158 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000394118040

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